Tenet v. Cheney?
27 April 2007 9:07 am by Taylor Marsh
Apropo of nothing I offer the video. From Bush to Tenet to Cheney to Condi
and beyond, these people are a bunch of clowns.
George Tenet’s book comes out on Monday. It should be a barn burner if Ignatius is correct, though
it looks like Tenet gives Bush a pass, as well as himself. Hey, why not? Bush has gotten a pass on everything
else he’s done, with Tenet and the CIA taking the blame for everything. Why would we think the former CIA chief would be critical of Bush now, medal and all? However, rumor has it he takes out after Bill Clinton. Of course.
However,
Dick Cheney and others don’t seem to get the same treatment. Tenet’s evidently
got his sights set on Dick Cheney, for one.
I love the description of supposed “tension between (Tenet) and Condoleezza
Rice offered in the Times write up. As incompetent as Dr. Rice turned
out to be I’d say “tension” would likely be a mild word. That she
has been in over her head since she arrived in Washington is an understatement
of humongous proportions.
A copy of the book was purchased at retail price in advance of publication
by a reporter for The New York Times. Mr. Tenet described with sarcasm watching
an episode of “Meet the Press” last September in which Mr. Cheney
twice referred to Mr. Tenet’s “slam dunk” remark as the
basis for the decision to go to war.“I remember watching and thinking, ‘As if you needed me to say
‘slam dunk’ to convince you to go to war with Iraq,’ ”
Mr. Tenet writes.(snip)
Mr. Tenet describes helping to kill a planned speech by Mr. Cheney on the
eve of the invasion because its claims of links between Al Qaeda and Iraq
went “way beyond what the intelligence shows.”“Mr. President, we cannot support the speech and it should not be given,”
Mr. Tenet wrote that he told Mr. Bush. Mr. Cheney never delivered the remarks.Mr. Tenet hints at some score-settling in the book. He describes in particular
the extraordinary tension between him and Condoleezza Rice, then national
security adviser, and her deputy, Stephen J. Hadley, in internal debate over
how the president came to say erroneously in his 2003 State of the Union address
that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa. … ..
