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Ex CIA Director George Tenet Lawyers Up!
2008-01-08 19:08:00 GEF @ 11:08 AM MST via: TPM Muckraker Tenet Lawyers Up By Paul Kiel From Newsweek: George Tenet, who was CIA director when the tapes were made, will be represented by former FBI general counsel Howard Shapiro. Roy Krieger, a Washington lawyer who has represented about 100 CIA employees, says that two agency officers have approached him about representation, ...
By: Suzie-Q
Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction
2007-09-06 17:54:00 Sep. 06, 2007 | On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister, a member of Saddam’s inner ...
By: The Hot Joints
Tenet Responds to Report
2007-08-21 22:20:00 Following is the text of a written statement issued by George J. Tenet, the former Director of Central Intelligence, regarding the public release today of the executive summary of the June 2005 report by the Office of the Inspector General concerning the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001: In August of 2001, the Office of the ...
By: The Hot Joints
Report: Tenet, CIA Unprepared for 9/11
2007-08-21 22:15:00 WASHINGTON - The CIA’s top leaders failed to use their available powers, never developed a comprehensive plan to stop al-Qaida and missed crucial opportunities to thwart two hijackers in the run-up to Sept. 11, the agency’s own watchdog concluded in a bruising report released Tuesday. Completed in June 2005 and kept classified until now, the 19-page ...
By: The Hot Joints
The Center Of Tenet's Book: Lies
2007-05-16 18:39:00 "If they question why we died,Tell them because our fathers lied."?Rudyard KiplingBy Ray McGovern, TomPaine.comMust Read: An in-depth look at why the former CIA director deserves jail, not a microphone.Technorati tags: Ray McGovern, George Tenet, TomPaine.com, CIA, Iraq, news
George Tenet cashes in on Iraq
2007-05-07 17:06:00 via Salon:When Tenet hit the talk-show circuit last week to defend his stewardship of the CIA and his role in the run-up to the war, he did not mention that he is a director and advisor to four corporations that earn millions of dollars in revenue from contracts with U.S. intelligence agencies and the Department of Defense. Nor is it ever mentioned in his book. But according to public records, Tenet has received at least $2.3 million from those corporations in stock and other compensation. Meanwhile, one of the CIA's largest contractors gave Tenet access to a highly secured room where he could work on classified material for his book. ... Tenet is the only American director on the board of QinetiQ, the British defense research firm that was privatized in 2003 and was, until recently, controlled by the Carlyle Group, the powerful Washington-based private equity fund. Fueled with Carlyle money, QinetiQ acquired four U.S. companies in recent years, including an intelligence contrac...
By: Munaeem's Blog
Not Ready for Prime Time News
2007-05-07 06:55:00 You may have missed the following news stories while wading through the muck of "news" disguised as diversion and propaganda. The truth is often out there; but you have to turn off Faux News and dig for it."Few notice huge shift towards globalization as frothing masses distracted by climate change debate" US and EU agree 'single market' The United States and the European Union have signed up to a new transatlantic economic partnership at a summit in Washington. EU/US Merger: New Global Order By Stealth In a sweeping move that has garnered surprisingly little attention this week the United States and the European Union have signed up to a new transatlantic economic partnership that will see regulatory standards "harmonized" and will lay the basis for a merging of the US and EU into one single market, a huge step on the path to a new globalized world order. The Truth About IranIran Open To Iraq Meeting, Willing To Improve U.S. RelationsIranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki sa...
Is Condi Hiding the Smoking Gun?
2007-05-06 07:27:00 By Frank RichThe New York TimesIF, as J.F.K. had it, victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan, the defeat in Iraq is the most pitiful orphan imaginable. Its parents have not only tossed it to the wolves but are also trying to pin its mutant DNA on any patsy they can find.George Tenet is just the latest to join this blame game, which began more than three years ago when his fellow Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Tommy Franks told Bob Woodward that Douglas Feith, the Pentagon?s intelligence bozo, was the ?stupidest guy on the face of the earth? (that?s the expurgated version). Last fall, Kenneth Adelman, the neocon cheerleader who foresaw a ?cakewalk? in Iraq, told Vanity Fair that Mr. Tenet, General Franks and Paul Bremer were ?three of the most incompetent people who?ve ever served in such key spots.? Richard Perle chimed in that the ?huge mistakes? were ?not made by neoconservatives? and instead took a shot at President Bush. Ahmad Chalabi, the neocons? former ...
Slam's Silence
2007-05-02 06:15:00 Better Never Than LateBy Maureen DowdThe New York TimesInstead of George Tenet teaching at Georgetown University, George Tenet should be taught at Georgetown University.There should be a course on government called ?The Ultimate Staff Guy.? A morality saga about how much harm you can do as a go-along, get-along guy, spending so much time trying not to alienate the big cheese so he doesn?t can you that you miss the moment where you have to can him or lose your soul.If Colin Powell and George Tenet had walked out of the administration in February 2003 instead of working together on that tainted U.N. speech making the bogus case for war, they might have turned everything around. They might have saved the lives and limbs of all those brave U.S. kids and innocent Iraqis, not to mention our world standing and national security.It would certainly have been harder for timid Democrats, like Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and John Edwards, to back up the administration if two members of the Bush...
George Tenet Sucks
2007-05-01 00:45:00 Pity the whining former Hill staffer and ex-CIA head George Tenet with his $4 million book advance and Bush well hung Congressional Medal Of Freedom. George Tenet is the Washington version of the blame-everyone-else-but-me serial abuser Alec Baldwin. In CIA parlance, George, you're "beyond salvage." Tenet was the quintessential Bush ass kisser and when Bush and his henchmen turned on him over that "slam dunk" Iraq war spin, Tenet's ego went haywire. Hellbent on settling the score, Tenet produces a tome hammering everyone but the buck stops here Bush. So the Saudis foiled a terrorist plot to kill Al Gore. The CIA busted other al Quaeda ops. Why didn't you resign, George, instead of keeping your yap shut? The truth inconvenient for you? I'm not impressed. For once I agree with cranky, chain-smoking, booze-swilling Vanity Fair mag contributor Christopher Hitchens who disembowels Tenet in Slate. The Brit-born Hitchens has an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction: His thoughts a...
By: Chickaboomer
George Tenet And The Sea Anchor Of Truth
2007-04-30 20:14:00 A sea anchor is a strange but ingenious device. When a boat is in water too deep for a conventional chained anchor, a sea anchor is used. Basically, it is a large bag tethered to the boat. It won’t keep the boat stationary, but will slow the drift. I thought of this ...
Arianna Huffington: Why Didn't George Tenet Just
2007-04-30 12:33:00 HuffingtonPost.com - Does this sound familiar? A senior Bush administration official plays a key role in selling the Iraq war debacle to the American public, resigns a few years later, and then tries to distance himself from Bush and the war by writing a book or talking to Bob Woodward, portraying himself as a poor, hapless victim who knew the truth at the time and really, really wanted to tell it, but, somehow, just had no choice but to go along.
By: Munaeem's Blog
DCI George Tenet speaks on Pre-war intel
2007-04-28 05:56:00 Well, Mr. Iraq has WMN now says he was a scapegoat. He said “I remember picking up the phone and calling Andy Card, who is a terrific human being and somebody I’ve always trusted?. Hi, Andy. I said, you know, we believe ? I believed that he had weapons of mass destruction and now what’s ...
By: Today's Talk
George Tenet Lets It Rip
2007-04-27 23:45:00 On interrogations: Ex-CIA Director George Tenet says the intelligence extracted from terror suspects in the Agency?s ?High Value Detainee? program, which includes so-called ?enhanced interrogation techniques,? was more valuable than all the other terror intelligence gathered by the FBI, the National Security Agency and the CIA. In his first network ...View Original Article
By: Munaeem's Blog
George Tenet, in book, denounces Cheney over Iraq
2007-04-27 18:36:00 WASHINGTON: George Tenet, the former director of central intelligence, has lashed out against Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials in a new book, saying they pushed the country to war in Iraq without ever conducting a
By: Get rich
George Tenet, in book, denounces Cheney over Iraq
2007-04-27 18:36:00 WASHINGTON: George Tenet, the former director of central intelligence, has lashed out against Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials in a new book, saying they pushed the country to war in Iraq without ever conducting a
By: Get rich
George Tenet Assails Cheney on Iraq
2007-04-27 17:39:00 The New York Times reports:"George J. Tenet, the former director of central intelligence, has lashed out against Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials in a new book, saying they pushed the country to war in Iraq without ever conducting a ?serious debate? about whether Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to the United States.The 549-page book, ?At the Center of the Storm,? is to be published by HarperCollins on Monday. By turns accusatory, defensive, and modestly self-critical, it is the first detailed account by a member of the president?s inner circle of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the decision to invade Iraq and the failure to find the unconventional weapons that were a major justification for the war.?There was never a serious debate that I know of within the administration about the imminence of the Iraqi threat,? Mr. Tenet writes in a devastating judgment that is likely to be debated for many years. Nor, he adds, ?was there ever a sig...
George Tenet, in a new book, denounces Cheney over war in Iraq
2007-04-27 14:36:00 '); E-Mail Article Listen to Article Printer-Friendly 3-Column Format Translate Share Article Text Size WASHINGTON: George Tenet, the former director of central intelligence, has lashed out against Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush
By: Get rich
George Tenet / Bernard McGuirk / Barbie 2.0
2007-04-27 14:24:00 ~ She moves. She grooves. She's an all-new Barbie poised to troll the Internet for friends. She also likely tunes out mom and every other annoyance except for catchy tunes like Fergie's "Glamorous Life." Officially called Barbie Girl, she is Mattel Inc.'s latest attempt to connect with modern girls. Considered more gadget than the traditional fashion doll, Barbie Girl is a device that plays MP3 music and connects to the virtual world via a personal computer. Read all about America's favorite fashion chick gone techie here: Barbie 2.0 delivers interactive experience.~ If you missed Bernard McGuirk's exclusive interview last night on Hannity & Colmes, News Hounds offers this excellent recap. Of all the inflammatory things McGuirk said on the Fox News show, I found most amusing that he apologized to Alan Colmes for repeatedly saying he resembles "a ferret in a suit." Beyond that, sounds like Bernie was on the show primarily to 1) bash Rev. Al Sharpton for taking a stand for t...
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