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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-30-07 09:53 AM
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Tenet's Book Was Delayed...but why? Post your theories here.
3/2/05

Tenet's head bob

Seems that former spymaster George Tenet won't be rushing his story of running the CIA under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to print. Insiders say he's decided to defer the deal with Crown Books, worth nearly $5 million, until after he has more time to pull his thoughts together. Publishers engaged in a wild bidding war to get his story of the CIA before and after 9/11, with Crown eventually winning and asking that the book be ready for the presses later this year. But we learn that Tenet didn't want to be tied to a firm deadline.


tiny bit more:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/archive/march2005.htm
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phaseolus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-30-07 10:44 AM
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1. Maybe I'm being cynical, but...
...perhaps he was waiting to see which way the prevailing winds were going to be blowing for the next few years? Suppose, let's say for argument's sake, that the big surge worked miracles and Iraq looked like it was on its way to being peaceful and prosperous. If that was on the horizon, I suspect we would have seen a very different book from Tenet...
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