Tenet,-"a sniveling C.I.A. chief bullied by “remote” Condi" whow HO HO>

[rodeodance]

Sorry, but i do not subscribe-so only have the headline:

OP-ED COLUMNIST
TimesSelect More Like an Air Ball
By MAUREEN DOWD
Slam-Dunk, a k a George Tenet, shows us his tender side, a sniveling C.I.A. chief bullied by “remote” Condi

[goclark]

1. Sounds really interesting ~ wish someone had the full story

[Patsy Stone]

2. Here's some:

No matter how eager Slam Dunk was to tell W. what he wanted to hear while polishing the president’s shoes, the intelligence they craved did not exist. "Let me say it again: C.I.A. found absolutely no linkage between Saddam and 9/11," the ex-Head Spook writes in his new book, self-effacingly titled "At the Center of the Storm." Besides, Junior and Darth had already decided to go to war to show the Arabs their moxie.

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Slam Dunk always presented himself as the ultimate guy’s guy, a cigar-chomping spymaster who swapped jokes with the president. But now he shows us his tender side, a sniveling C.I.A. chief bullied by "remote" Condi.

He says Condi panicked in October 2002 and made him call a Times reporter, Alison Mitchell, who covered the Congressional debate about invading Iraq. In essence, he hypocritically told Alison to disregard the conclusions of his own agency, which had said that the links between Saddam and terrorist groups were tenuous, and that Saddam would take the extreme step of joining with Islamic fanatics only if he thought the U.S. was about to attack him. His nose growing as long as his cigar, he said nothing in the C.I.A. report contradicted the president’s case for war.

"In retrospect," Slam writes, "I shouldn’t have talked to the New York Times reporter at Condi’s request. By making public comments in the middle of a contentious political debate, I gave the impression that I was becoming a partisan player."

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[ljm2002]

3. "I gave the impression that I was becoming a partisan player"

Gee, ya think so?

(However much I detest the man for going along, I am still very pleased that he is coming out with it all now. Remember the Truth Commissions in South Africa, where even the lowest of the low came and TOLD THE DAMNED TRUTH. We are all too ready for that now, including from the collaborators).

[Garbo 2004]

4. Ah but he's not coming out with it "all" now. He says there was no torture, just

"agressive interrogation" techniques. That was on his watch at CIA; he knew what was going on. The CIA wasn't sending folks to Egypt and other countries for their health.

He's evidently more outraged at the "damage" to his "reputation" as if he were the victim, rather than at terrible damage to the nation and the consequences in the world of the war and policies he aided and abetted. His book apparently is more concerned with providing a basis for the rehab of his "reputation" rather than providing the truth of it all, including his active role in peddling bogus dubious "intel" like the aluminum tubes crap to Congress and the public. Tenet is now, as before, primarily self-serving and still not fully coming clean.

Letter to Tenet from former intel officers on Larry Johnson's blog: http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/04/letter_to_georg.html#more