New Republic's View of Tenent's Resignation/ Link to David Boren, again!

[KoKo]

Reading this view of Tenent's Resignation in "NR" today I was reminded of some posts here on DU recently tying former Senator David Boren (President of U. of Oklahoma) with "beheaded Berg." I went back into the archives and found an article which ties Boren, Tenant and 9/11 together.

Might be interesting to DU'ers who are still questioning all this. Boren is Tenents only defense today? Why is that? :shrug:

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DAILY EXPRESS
Preemptive
by Spencer Ackerman

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Only at TNR Online | Post date 06.03.0


Then there is the 9/11 Commission. Later this summer, the Commission will deliver its final report detailing the story of the events leading up to the September 11 attacks. Judging from the Commission's staff statements and its grilling of Tenet earlier this year--he was the only Clinton or Bush official to publicly testify twice--both Tenet and the CIA will take a significant share of blame for the failure to prevent the attacks. In particular, the Commission is likely to fault the CIA's reliance on Afghan proxies for intelligence and covert action against Al Qaeda; the lack of clarity over whether CIA operatives were legally authorized to kill Osama bin Laden during the Clinton administration; and Tenet's reluctance to fly the Predator surveillance drone in the spring of 2001, before an armed version of the Predator was ready. Tenet and John McLaughlin--his deputy and soon-to-be interim successor--made clear during the hearings that they disagree with many of the Commission's initial findings, especially about the CIA's human intelligence capabilities. An indication of how seriously Tenet takes that anticipated criticism came today from his longtime confidant and mentor, former Oklahoma Senator David Boren. Tenet "has been the strongest advocate in the nation for rebuilding our human intelligence capability, which had been declining for two decades," Boren scolded in a four-sentence statement on Tenet's resignation. "I hate to think about where the U.S. would have been after 9-11 if George Tenet had not already greatly expanded education and training programs for human agents."

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=ackerman060304

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CIA Allowed Known Al Qaeda Members to Buy 9/11 Flight Tickets

Kathy Ashton's son Tommy was killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11. Eight months after the attack, she asserted that the mass murder of 3,000 Americans was enabled "because many agencies in this country dropped the ball." 1 In the wake of the 9/11 attack, it has became popular to talk about the failure of the nation's intelligence community to "connect the dots" in advance of the catastrophe and take the necessary steps to obstruct the terrorists. The American people, their leaders, and the media need to give serious consideration to the likelihood that within the inner circles of the intelligence world they were indeed connecting dots. The problem was that they were drawing a different picture.

The view presented here is not far-fetched conspiricism. Sting operations are common in law enforcement. We were reminded of this by USA Today (August 13, 2003), with a page-one article about an individual being arrested and accused of attempting to sell a surface-to-air missile to Al Qaeda, for use in the US. In fact, the missile was purchased from him by two FBI agents posing as Al Qaeda terrorists. It was a sting on both sides: the missile and launcher had been sold to the accused by two Russian agents acting in concert with the FBI and pretending to be illegal arms merchants. There was no plot to attack an aircraft with a missile. The entire episode appears to be little more than choreographed public relations stagecraft intended to convince Americans that their government is "doing something" about homeland security. A desperate sucker trying to relieve his financial problems played right into their hands.

Given that I do not have police or subpoena power, I have relied mostly on information gathered from commonly available publications. From careful consideration of the various odd events in the trail of evidence, it appears very likely that former U.S. Senator David Boren of Oklahoma, an adroit political schemer still ambitious for higher office, was working with George Tenet and other CIA inner circle associates trying to conduct a sting operation against Al Qaeda. Always hungry for adoration, glory was Boren's goal. This explains why they allowed the 9/11 plot to advance instead of obstructing it when opportunities were presented. Of course, they failed tragically. One of their big blunders was assuming that hijackers intended to land the aircraft and then engage in negotiations over passenger hostages. Readers are invited to review the evidence discussed in this document and then to give careful consideration to the argument that the bungled sting explanation is the best way to account for the known facts.

http://members.aol.com/mpwright9/sting.html

[cestmoi]

1. Thanx. Very interesting articles. nt

[KoKo]

2. More! Boren/Tenant not surprised by 9/11 and Boren's ties to the Saudi's.

Other Revealing Statements by Boren and Tenet

In his August 6 memo, Tenet told Bush that al-Qaeda might be "tempted" to hijack airliners. What did he mean by this? Exactly who was going to do the tempting? Was this a coded communication?

In his remarks to PBS after the hijacking, Boren was cheering for retribution. He said, "if we don't act now...we're going to continue to ask for this kind of thing" . Continue to ask? Were Boren and Tenet "tempting" Al Qaeda and "asking for" the 9/11 attack in order to give themselves an opportunity to disrupt it with dramatic action at the last moment to make themselves appear heroic?

Boren described to ABC news his response to the announcement of the WTC attack when he was having breakfast with Tenet. "Out of the corner of my eye," he said, "I could see several people converging on our table." He continued: "One of them said to George Tenet, 'Mr. Director, the World Trade tower has just been attacked by an airplane.' I was struck by the fact he used the word 'attacked.'"

What's interesting here is that Boren was not "struck" by the fact that there had been hijackings. He was surprised that buildings had been attacked. In contrast to the report of this breakfast given by the Washington Post, there is no mention of Tenet's having recalled Moussaoui's six-month stay in Norman, where he took pilot lessons, stayed in OU housing, and worked out at OU's gym. That's because ABC was relying on Boren for information about the event.

Boren also told PBS that Mohmmar Qadaffi expressed his disapproval of the hijackings, but sanctimoniously accused him of not being sincere and just trying to take Libya off the "suspect list." How was Boren able to go about making allegations that Qadaffi had devious motives with such confidence? Was he really talking about himself?

OU Gives Money to Saudi Prince -- Prince's Wife Gives Money to Terrorists

In March 2002 The Oklahoma Daily proudly reported another one of Boren's love-fests for the international rich and famous. The guest of honor this time was His Royal Highness Prince Bandar Bin Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, ambassador to the United States for Saudi Arabia. His Most Royal Excellency Prince Bandar addressed a dinner audience at 7 p.m. in the OU student union. Boren was there to glow in the Prince's limelight and moderate the question-and- answer session between the ambassador and audience members. I do not know how large an honorarium in OU funds was paid to Boren's good friend the Prince.