George “I can ruin an entire government agency if only given the time” Tenet won’t have to wiggle out of that one, because the media won’t hold his feet to the fire about the veracity of his book. It does not serve their purpose, and would damage their credibility by pointing out John Kerry like lies in doing so.

When I first started to read about this book in the press, my first thought was Tenet is trying to put distance between himself, his actions, and his culpability in our going to war. The next question is why, and my only conclusion so far is he is going to run for office. He was raised in Queens New York, and may seek a senate seat from that state. After all they were willing to hire a fraudulent futures trading, terrorist sympathizing lying hag from Arkansas as a senator, how bad can a lying government bureaucrat be, even if he is from the CIA? He is working to make Bush look bad, so his heart must be in the right place.

Bill Richardson was an unmitigated disaster as Ambassador to the UN, and as Sec. of Energy, under President Clinton. How ever his failures in those positions have not stopped him from becoming a governor of New Mexico, or running for president.

So what does Tenet have to do to become successful in his public life after working to make a circus of the CIA? Perhaps one might start with looking at “Tenet’s tenets”. A group of sophomoric character traits that he envy’s but doesn’t seem to poses. Number three is particularly useful, and may prove the only one he actually has; “Follow your heart and dare to take risks.” Well he seems to certainly have taken that tenet to heart. John Kerry followed his heart and took some calculated risks and got caught. Perhaps Tenet thinks he is smarter than Kerry? I don’t know of course, but it would not take much to out smart a senator from Massachusetts now would it?

Perhaps the first step in getting elected or maybe appointed to an office (should a democrat win next year) is to distance himself from Bush, and how hard is that? Tell some lies in a book that the literati are only too willing to print, and gain some ‘street cred’ with the MSM. That hurdle jumped, it on to the election of his choice. Perhaps we will see him hinting that he will be willing to testify before assorted House and Senate committees, further endearing himself and gaining favor and probably free press with the MSM. After all Bill Richardson has shown that you can be a complete disaster at one presidential appointment and end up running for election to the highest office in the land.

C.

P.S. I am sure we will now see the liberal blogs from North Dakota rushing to aid and abet the veracity of this tome that has them slobbering with canine like enthusiasm, as they are only too glad to jump on this band wagon and set aside that critical judgment they employ the selective use of. I can hardly wait.

Ron Walter is a troll-for-hire. It’s obvious that every time he uses the word ‘Republicans’ in quotes, somebody gives him a cookie!

Bzzzzz! No cigar! Ronald had proven himself numerous times before that that he was indeed a “troll-for-hire” who usually works the word Republican in “scare quotes” in every friggin’ post! His history is apparently longer than your attention span! I asked you 20 minutes ago:

for accuracy’s sake don’t pick one where I’ve had a prior encounter with a troll like you or Ronald Walter

Currently, Ron Wa is two days overdue in backing up an obvious, stupid, wicked lie about the President. He is not man enough to back up his own Cut and Paste statements, so I will continue to heap scorn upon him until he does. Maybe even after, because he is such a stupid troll.

Rob, I wouldn’t be calling people fat, when you are clearly 200 pounds over weight.

When we compare Tenet’s former statements on Iraq and the Administration and those in his book, if I was on a Congressional Committee, I would say: “Comparing both set sof statements, it is clear that you either lied before or you lied in your book, so we have established by your own words that you are a liar, now Mr. Director we simply need to ask questions to establish what degree of liar you are!”

Proofreader Emeritus is so far from hypocrite that he must access the Hubble Telescope Image Catalog just to see the region where hypocrite resides.

Just to let you know, for a second there, I felt like Fred Thompson!

Cobar Towers, The bombings on the United States Embassy’s in Africa, and the USS Cole all took place on Tenet’s watch.

There is no doubt he lied, was utterly inept, and failed as the CIA chief, bringing shame on himself, his family, and his country. He should be made a pariah, and shunned by all for years, as Dwight Schrute shuns Andy Bernard.

C.

Thanks Lik! Does Janel, perchance, post from the same computer as andy?

Janel is posting from the same Class B network address as Andy (meaning that they’re most likely in the same area), but not the same computer.

Don’t worry about it. Janel is just disgruntled because Rob dared to speak of what he saw. She’s a 36 year old woman who is immature enough to log in as “Yo Mama” and make fun of someone’s weight. That’s all you really need to know about her.

I read a column about Georgie’s book. The response to it was: Thanks for saving us three hours and fifteen dollars!

Proof,

I can go through any number of threads where you are the first to make an ad hominem attack against me or any other liberal.

2Hotel9, where is your evidence that I am a racist.

Anybody on this board who doesn’t preach to the choir has any number of insults cast at them. And if anybody fights back you whine about being attacked. Totally pathetic.

Chris,

Not to take anything away from what you say here, but 2H9 has an excellent point.

Our human intelligence capabilities were literally gutted by Democrats Frank Church, Jimmy Carter, and Carter’s Annapolis classmate, Stansfield Turner. Our Intelligence Community has suffered a paucity of human intelligence ever since. (The exception was the tenure of Bill Casey during Reagan’s presidency, but Casey kept much of his operations “off the books” and out of official channel, which made him a good deal more effective than either his predecessor or Tenet.)

As an example of our institutional over-reliance on technology, there is this excerpt from James Risen’s book, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration:

She had probably done this a dozen times before. Modern digital technology had made clandestine communications with overseas agents seem routine. Back in the cold war, contacting a secret agent in Moscow or Beijing was a dangerous, labour-intensive process that could take days or even weeks. But by 2004, it was possible to send high-speed, encrypted messages directly and instantaneously from CIA headquarters to agents in the field who were equipped with small, covert personal communications devices. So the officer at CIA headquarters assigned to handle communications with the agency’s spies in Iran probably didn’t think twice when she began her latest download. With a few simple commands, she sent a secret data flow to one of the Iranian agents in the CIA’s spy network. Just as she had done so many times before.

But this time, the ease and speed of the technology betrayed her. The CIA officer had made a disastrous mistake. She had sent information to one Iranian agent that exposed an entire spy network; the data could be used to identify virtually every spy the CIA had inside Iran.

Mistake piled on mistake. As the CIA later learned, the Iranian who received the download was a double agent. The agent quickly turned the data over to Iranian security officials, and it enabled them to “roll up” the CIA’s network throughout Iran. CIA sources say that several of the Iranian agents were arrested and jailed, while the fates of some of the others is still unknown.

This espionage disaster, of course, was not reported. It left the CIA virtually blind in Iran, unable to provide any significant intelligence on one of the most critical issues facing the US – whether Tehran was about to go nuclear.

To be “fair” about it, intelligence successes are rarely reported. Certainly far less than the failures. But even so, Mr. Tenet appears to have a good deal to answer for.

It won’t happen, of course. Instead we are left with the ridiculous 9-11 Commission report and its utterly frivolous recommendations, none of which are likely to improve our intelligence capabilities one iota.

Proofreader Emeritus is so far from hypocrite that he must access the Hubble Telescope Image Catalog just to see the region where hypocrite resides.

And I notice andy has started another wave of stupidity. His dialup must be working again.

hawk, obfuscation is rather lame. Do you honestly think that no one here can interconnect comments from different threads? That what you say at any given point is totally divorced from every other thing you say?

Please.

Your ethnocentricity is rather evident. As is mine. Or or anyone else’s. Please tell us you are really not this stupid. At the least make a 1/2assed attempt to sway us.

I can go through any number of threads where you are the first to make an ad hominem attack against me or any other liberal.

Let’s try for one first, so we don’t overtax your abilities!
But, for accuracy’s sake don’t pick one where I’ve had a prior encounter with a troll like you or Ronald Walter. BRING IT ON!

Touche’! Have you noticed the ringing silence about George and his book. Me thinks he has perhaps trod upon his penis.

But if I wake up in the middle of the night with a burning cross in my front yard and a bunch of hooligan’s dressed in white, I will know who they are. Oh, and by the way, I am 35!! Not 36!!!

Thanks for the ad hominem attack. You can’t refute the arguments, so you imply that everyone who disagrees with you is in the Klan. Nice!
BTW, was 35 your IQ? I missed that part of the conversation…

At least you admit you’re a hypocrite.

No, I admit you’re a dumb ass!

Bye. Don’t let the electronic door hit you on the way out.

True! I do not suffer fools lightly! But generally they first must demonstrate that they are worthy of my contempt before I belittle them, Dove-boy!

Proof. You’re such a fake. Get a life.

Where you from anyway?

Proof,

You make ad hominem attacks all the time. In fact you made one in that very post where you complain about them. So stop your whining.

Well, it’s more like 75lbs given my body type, but you’re right. I’m fat.

What a great contribution to the debate you’ve made. But if you’re going to insult me because you’re angry about the reservations column I wrote maybe you could keep them on that thread instead of polluting the other areas of this site.

Just saying.