Who feels sorry for George Tenet for being thrown under the bus?

[XOKCowboy]

Sorry. Couldn't help myself watching the pity-fest on 60 Minutes.

[Canuckistanian]

1. He's already had a $4 million dollar advance

I'd say that was compensation enough for hurt feelings.

[XOKCowboy]

2. Typical...

Hopefully he'll get grilled on other shows like he's getting on 60Mins

[Breeze54]

6. Tenet is on, 'Good Morning America', tomorrow morning

:puke:

I'll be interested to see if he calms the fuck down!

[SharonAnn]

7. Actually, I think he's telling the truth. And yes, his feelings are hurt but then mine would be too

I think that the * administration is to blame for not taking action on all the warnings they received in 2001 and I think they threw him under the bus to try to deflect the blame.

There's a lot that goes on with the CIA in gathering information, but they are not supposed to take action without authorization.

[XOKCowboy]

17. I give you props for standing up the fall guy

and it really does show a lot of good progressive character but if Georgie had any character at the time he'd have resigned in protest. I really have no pity for him.

[sandnsea]

14. Wow. Seriously?

$4 million dollars to completely fuck up monitoring al qaeda, miss Bin Laden at Tora Bora, AND get the Iraq WMD wrong??

Watching Moyer the other night, all the journalists and speechwriters have advanced in their careers too.

Must be where Barbara Bush gets the idea disasters "work out well for them". They do for people in her world.

[SmokingJacket]

3. I don't feel sorry for him, but it annoys me that

he was a stupid tool for the admin. and now the admin. is blaming its TOOL.

[Xipe Totec]

4. I'm just sorry the wheels missed him.

What a freakin' embarrassment he turned out to be.

[Marrak]

5. Georgie Tenet...

a sniveling, self-serving mega-asshole...

[karlrschneider]

8. That was a bit rude. My lawyer was killed by an ambulance last week.

It backed over him.
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[Canuckistanian]

11. LOL n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. About as sorry as I feel for the ex-head of any other criminal organization.

Well, I did feel a little sorry for "Uncle Junior"...but, Tenet and his predecessors? Not a bit.

[lisa58]

10. Not really...

...he could have set thing very, very straight. He could have given an honest assessment of what happened.

I'm "disappointed" that he did not gush-forth the truth as the truth is probably the only thing that allows me peace.

He's still playing a part in the game - and for that I'm sorry.

I want more.

Love to all!

[Old and In the Way]

18. I totally agree....I learned nothing in that interview.

Whatever he really knows, he's not telling. There was lots of heated passion, but nothing that contradicts the story that this administration has laid out. "I didn't jump off the couch and say slam duck. I stayed on the couch and said it." This isn't exactly a new revelation.

I still think that the Georges have incriminating evidence against each other. Unless there's something more in the book, this does nothing to further our understanding of what this administration knew and did with regards to the CIA's information on 9/11 warnings, Iraq, and Tora-Bora.

Very disappointing.

[Ignacio Upton]

12. No

He was let go almost three years ago. He should also have been more aggressive in fighting the administration's lies WHEN THEY WERE HAPPENING. Still, I don't see him as bumbling the way that the administration portrayed him. I don't think that he agreed with the need to lie (or knew that the administration was directing him to do so at the time), but he enabled it through his actions.

[jgraz]

13. I feel bad for the bus

It's gonna take weeks before all the neocon washes off.

[qanda]

15. I'll save my sorry for the people who get blown up everyday on buses in Iraq

[OHdem10]

16. I do not feel any particular sorrow

I just wonder if all the anger and venom over
a book I am sure no one has read--not even
the reporters doing the interviews and reporting.

The reporters pick out a certain few pages.


I found it significant that Wolfe Blitzer, no lover
of Liberals, made this comment.

There could be a lot of political fallout from this
book. Likewise, there will be fallout for Tenet also.


I have not heard anyone on this board discuss the potential
fallout fpr tje politicos in Washington. All I have heard
is Bash Tenet.

Seems Bush plan works. WH deciided ==We will be dismissive of
the Book. Just like in Buying the War, the Journalists
cheerlead the Bash Tenet and behold my buddies at DU.

At least Wolfe Blitzer acknowledged this is a long and
and detailed book with reasons for political fall out.

[Old and In the Way]

19. There was nothing in the interview that told us anything new.

Typically, 60 Minutes would lead with the most explosive and controversial aspects of a book of this type. If this interview reflects the most controversial excerpts from the book...I'm not wasting my money on it.

[Disturbed]

20. Does it matter if we are dismissive of Tenet's book?

I think not. Those in power, Rethugs and Dems will get the info from the book that Bushloini and Cheney lied America into the Illegal Invasion of Iraq. In fact, I strongly suspect most of them already know that is what happened. This book only adds one more voice to that. Surely, those on the Intell Commitee of Congress knew of this. Will any in Congress do anything about it?

[Skittles]

21. he accepted a medal and four million bucks

he is a f***ing repuke WHORE

[magellan]

24. He tried to excuse the medal as being for the CIA's *Afghanistan* work

I wonder if that included kudos for all the US taxpayer dollars they let Pakistan's ISI funnel to bin Laden.

[Madspirit]

22. Nope

I just saw him on 60 Minutes. He was quite passionate in his whining but no sympathy here.
Lee

[blues90]

23. He is just another liar who stood back and let it happen

So no , I don;t feel sorry for him in the least bit , screw him .

[Pachamama]

25. Tenet is a very unsympathetic character.....

After watching him in his 60 Minutes interview, he' not someone I feel very sorry for....

He isn't a very nice person and when he kept insisting that the CIA doesn't torture, I really didn't like him and thought he's as big of an ass as the rest of the "Bushies", even if they did throw him under the bus....

He is no victim....