Tenet - Exposing 9/11 intelligence - A threat to the White House

[Terre]

In light of Katrina, I can see why this story has been overlooked. I searched and didn't find it. It was written 8 days ago, on September 1st in the Washington Times:

George Tenet is not going to let himself become the fall guy for the September 11 intelligence failures, according to a former intelligence officer and a source friendly to Mr. Tenet. ..snip..

...Mr. Tenet, according to a knowledgeable source, had a "wink and a nod" understanding with the White House that he wouldn't be scapegoated for intelligence failings. The deal, one source says, was sealed with the award of the Presidential Freedom Medal.

Now that deal may be off. Mr. Tenet's rebuttal to the report is detailed and explicit. In defending his integrity as CIA director, Mr. Tenet treads perilously close to affirming the account of Richard Clarke, the former NSC terrorism official whose public disclosure of the Bush administration's delay in adopting a strategy against al Qaeda stirred controversy last summer. ..snip..

In deciding not to become the fall guy, Mr. Tenet has made a fateful decision. The latest salvo in the ongoing wars between the CIA and the White House may be about to burst. ..snip..

Under normal conditions, Karl Rove would already be taking pre-emptive action. But he is neutralized until the Valerie Plame leak probe ends. That leaves it to the president's allies on Capitol Hill to keep Mr. Tenet's rebuttal under wraps. With the families of September 11 victims demanding disclosure, this will not be easy.

CIA Director Goss is between a rock and a hard place. He will be criticized for covering up if he does nothing. But if he follows the IG's recommendation to convene formal hearings as a prelude to sanctions, Mr. Tenet himself may go public to defend his reputation. The $4.5 million book offer may soon be back on the table, and this time Mr. Tenet might take it.

Let the fun begin!

Popcorn anyone? :popcorn:

[kainah]

1. the link takes me to microsoft

:shrug:

Hope you can fix that because it looks like a most interesting story.

[Terre]

2. Fixed!

Damn, but I keep forgetting to take out the http part of the URL. :argh:

[kainah]

10. thanks much

Now, I'll happily recommend. :-)

And that removing http has caught most of us, I'm sure.

[napi21]

3. I found the story too. Here's the link/

http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20050831-091719-1217r.htm

[ProudDad]

29. Actually it's that damn internet explorer

that's taking you to the evil Borg - Micro$oft.

Get FireFox!!!

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

[napi21]

4. Betcha the WH is hoping this story got buried in the Katrina story!

Thanks for posting it!

It doesn't surprise me that Tenet wouldn't take the hit! He did a lot of kissing a** but I think his alliegence is with the CIA and not Shrub! Of course, there's always saving his own rep too!

[FreedomAngel82]

15. Oh of course

:popcorn: This will be a very good fight. :D

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. No more Coverups and fall guys. Nominated.

[Benhurst]

6. Recommended.

:popcorn:

[Terre]

7. I for one hope Tenet gets boxed into a smaller corner

it's the ONLY way he's going to defend himself, and that's what we need to have happen.

Hurry up Fitzgerald - for petey's sake!!!

[FreedomAngel82]

16. Oh yes

I'm sure that has a part of it. He wants to save his ass. One thing I've noticed with this bunch, or any republican really, is it's each man for himself/herself. The only way they will depart from the party or the Bush administration is if they're in trouble.

[burythehatchet]

8. Fitz was supposed to wrap up in october, was he not?

[Terre]

17. Yup - and I can't wait

While this article does way too much talking about Judith, it is the latest "news" (that I've found) about Plame/Rove:

CIA leak probe may be nearing end game

[emulatorloo]

9. good find -- thanks for posting - nominated and kicked n/t

[Usrename]

11. Come on George T, do you have a patriotic bone left in your body?

The truth will set you free.

[havocmom]

12. 'nother kick

:kick: Knew the spooks were still playing chess with BUSHCO. Rove has to be sweating bullets. He tangled with the wrong crowd.

[greenbriar]

13. kick again

jebus is there anything the BCF woudln't do???

[Nothing Without Hope]

14. Very interesting that this is in the usually Bush-worshipping Moonie Times

That means that some internal powers in Washington are on the move, perhaps to indict/convict/evict the insane Bush gang at last.

Tenet has no reason for remaining "loyal" to Bush. As more and more leaks out about the monstrous leadup to 9/11 and the Iraq war, Bush spin doctors will be looking for scapegoats. Bush has no loyalty except to his own self-preservation and power, and absolutely anything or anyone will be sacrificed without a qualm. You'd think a smart man like Tenet would have figured that out long ago. He tried to tack a "safe" course when such a thing never existed.

[blm]

24. More likely it's a warning to the WH to pre-empt Tenet and use any means

necessary to attack him.

[Old and In the Way]

18. I've always thought there's a MAD relationship between Bush and Tenet

Both have some nasty stuff on the other. Why wasn't Tenet the fall guy on 9/11? Supposedly an intel failure and a Clinon appointee...yet he's not fingered with it. The Iraq War/WMD was another intel failure. No firing, just a resignation with a Medal of Freedom.

Something stunk about this.

I'm thinking Able Danger has opened something up and upset the balance. Tenet now needs to get his story out before the Republican Smear Machine gets cranked up.

[Carla in Ca]

19. I'm a little confused

It is in the Washington Times?

Goss ordered the report as a member of Congress then gets picked to head that very agency?

Why would * allow a scathing report?

And lastly, the columnist

John B. Roberts II served in the Reagan White House. He writes frequently on terrorism and national security.

[wryter2000]

20. Munch, munch, munch

:popcorn: :beer:

[OregonBlue]

21. Delicious!

[Peace Patriot]

22. Thanks for the post. I think the White House is in disarray, with some

kind of struggle going on between the indictable and the non-indictable, and possibly between pro-Bush vs pro-Cheney. Bush's performance in the first days of Katrina was beyond incompetent. It was flabbergasting--like he had been abandoned by his handlers. (How could they have let him be photographed cutting birthday cake, with a chunk of the country being wiped off the map and thousands dying? No one in charge? Deliberate sabotage?) Then, it took them days to gear up any kind of spin. Very puzzling. I have little doubt that the misdirection of the helicopters that were to sandbag the levee, the almost universal and quick loss of all communications systems, the failure to provide aid, the obstruction of aid that others offered, and the murderous neglect of poor black Americans in the Superdome and the Convention Center were deliberate (Halliburton, Bechtel, Fluor, et al, needed a new excuse to loot federal coffers, now that the Iraq war is in disrepute in the corporate media), but the failure of the spinmeisters is astonishing, and certainly points to division and disarray.

While Bush was visibly AWOL, Cheney was invisibly so. "Gone fishing" in Wyoming. Showed no interest at all, until Halliburton got the first contract, then he emerged from his rathole, and canceled a planned trip to Canada "due to Katrina." (I also read he was purchasing an estate in...Maryland was it? Or Maine?--while 2+ million Americans were losing their homes).

Bush playing guitar, eating birthday cake.
Cheney "gone fishing," buying a second home (or third, or tenth?).
Rice purchasing $2000 shoes in New York.
Rumsfeld - can't recall what it was - on vacation somewhere.

Nobody minding the storeFRONT.

These may be deliberate messages to America, to get used to the casual and unapologetic cruelty of the rich and powerful. I do think there is something to that (psyops). But this was a bit much, even for them. Can their contempt for the rest of us have been more nakedly obvious? Did they really want to be so naked? Or was it the result of in-fighting--driven by fear of Treasongate?

Meanwhile, Halliburton, Bechtel and Fluor are cleaning out our treasury once again. THAT's what we really should be paying attention to--not Bush's political troubles. (He's history; they need a War Democrat to do a better war in the Middle East; get a Draft--which Bush can't do; consolidate all their mind-boggling financial and legal gains; and maybe throw some sops to the unwashed masses, like NOT looting Social Security). What we really need to concentrate on is getting some of our money back. We haven't had much success in California (in recovering the $9 billion that Enron stole, or the $80 some billion total of Texas energy company theft--thanks a lot, Arnold!). But we need reparations even more at the national level. It may be satisfying to see Bush's downfall, or to see some of them in orange jumpsuits for treason and thievery. But the thievery has been so great that we really must try to recover some of it, or the country will quite literally go bankrupt. The War Dem is going to be saddled with essential revocation of some of the tax cuts for the rich, as it is. (You want to hear pigs squeal? Wait til that happens!) I'm hoping for prosecution of the war profiteers, and recovery of some of the funds. But I'm not too hopeful about it, since installation of the War Democrat will likely be aimed at preventing any serious accounting.

Nothing much can be done until we recover our right to vote (which our Dem election officials sold out to Diebold and ES&S--with their SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code for the tabulation of all our votes--in exchange for lavish lobbying perks and the heady power of brokering these big business deals that our election systems have become). Election reform needs to be our first priority, whatever happens with all the political fallout (--into 'Boston Harbor' with their election theft machines, I say!).

We're not going to see the nomination of any antiwar populist (by a major party)--or any real recovery from utter madness that we have suffered in every corner of the federal government, or any real accountability--as long as Bush Cartel operatives own and control the voting system.

[Independent_Liberal]

23. I can hardly wait! I can hardly wait!

:)

[PeacePal]

25. The Administration is already gearing up for impeachment -

that's why Cheney/Rove let Bush fall down so hard. While everyone watches impeachment hearings and pats themselves on the back, Cheney the Guy Who Cleaned Up Katrina Damage becomes interim Presidential Pretender, and gears up to become the next appointed President, after the next non-election, decided by - who else? - the Supreme Court headed by Roberts, with it's brightly beaming new appointee Al Gonzales.

They are NOT stupid, just evil.

[PeacePal]

26. deleted dupe post - wireless *ing unreliable!

[ComerPerro]

27. He was happy to be the fall guy for Iraq

[dooner]

28. this is all turning into the "perfect storm"

Makes me fear how truly desperate the neocons must be right now.

[progressoid]

30. Uh Oh. He's gonna loose his shinny medal.

[Disturbed]

31. The Oligarchy is not pleased with...

the Silverspoon Sociopath. They thought that his aw shucks, plain talkin' act would sooth the masses. From the Tsunami, Schaivo, Iraq revalations, and now Katrina the RW Crime Cartel is being revealed for exactly what they are: Criminals.

[nadinbrzezinski]

32. the fact that the Times has it... is telling all on its own

folks pass the popcorn

[bonito]

33. Anyone got some salt?

[madmadmad]

34. article is from wash. times- a neo-con mouthpiece. not very credible.

[freethought]

35. I would rather see this sort of story

in the NYTimes or the Washington Post. I would rather not pin my hopes of George Tenet telling all by some story on the Moonie, er, Washington Times. If he does I would hope for major tectonic shift in the electorate's attitude toward Chimp and his party. Still I think it best to take note of the story and wait and see what happens.

Personally, if Tenet tells all I would hope to hear about Rove hanging himself or under some desk sucking his thumb in the fetal position.