Tenet: ‘I Will Never Give That Medal Back’
Tenet: ‘I Will Never Give That Medal Back’
On December 14, 2004, President Bush awarded George Tenet — along with Paul Bremer and Tommy Franks — the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In his remarks, Bush said of these individuals:
Today this honor goes to three men who have played pivotal roles in great events, and whose efforts have made our country more secure and advanced the cause of human liberty.
A group of former CIA intelligence officials recently wrote a letter to Tenet, saying, “The reality of Iraq, however, has not made our nation more secure nor has the cause of human liberty been advanced. In fact, your tenure as head of the CIA has helped create a world that is more dangerous.” The officials then called on Tenet to give back his medal. “We believe you have a moral obligation to return the Medal of Freedom you received from President George Bush,” they wrote.
Last night on Larry King Live, Tenet obstinately rejected the call to return the medal:
I would never give thought to giving back the Medal of Freedom. … I accepted the award on their behalf [the men and women of the CIA] and I will never give that medal back.
Watch it:
Tenet also said of President Bush, “I like the president. I respect the president. … He’s the commander-in-chief. He’s never shied away from — from responsibility.” Noting that his book does not criticize Bush, Tenet explained, “It’s not my intention to hurt people. … It’s not my intention to point fingers at people. I’m trying to tell a story.”
Transcript:
KING: There are some saying would you give thought to giving back the Medal of Freedom?
TENET: No, I would never give thought to giving back the Medal of Freedom because it was — it was an honor bestowed because of the work of the men and women of CIA in Afghanistan and our work against terrorism. And I believe that that work — I accepted the award on their behalf and I will never give that medal back.
KING: Do you think President Bush will be hurt by this book?
TENET: I…
KING: I know you praise him in the book…
TENET: I don’t…
KING: … but do you think he…
TENET: I don’t think so. Larry, look, I like the president. I respect the president. He — I was responsible for what I, you know, the intelligence community. He’s the commander-in-chief. He’s never shied away from — from responsibility.
It’s not my intention to hurt people. It’s not my intention to point fingers at people. I’m trying to tell a story.
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FUC*KING SCUMBAG!
May 1st, 2007 at 3:01 pmWhile we’re at it, how ’bout America give back its white hat. I’m surprised Randolf Scott didn’t already shoot us.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:02 pmTenet: “I’m trying to tell a story.†– - Kudos George, you told a whopper.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:03 pmHouse calls Tenet to testify on Iraq
WASHINGTON, April 27 (UPI) — A U.S. House panel has called ex-CIA chief George Tenet to testify on pre-Iraq war intelligence — and Tenet’s new book suggests he may appreciate the chance.
On Thursday, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to Tenet, head of the CIA from 1997 to 2004, asking him appear before the committee on May 10. The committee seeks to “learn your views about one of the claims used to justify the war in Iraq — the assertion that Iraq sought to import uranium from Niger — and related issues,” the letter states.
The Oversight Committee, under the chairmanship of Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., has launched a full-scale effort to make top-ranking Bush administration officials account for their roles in handling intelligence used to justify use of force in Iraq.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:04 pmIt’s not my intention to point fingers at people. I’m trying to tell a story.â€
Americans have had all the stories we can stomach. How about some truth for a change?
Not only is this war costing all Americans a lot of money & grief, look at what it’s done to RUCerious’s magic machines.
I mean, he didn’t just find those on E-Bay, you know!
May 1st, 2007 at 3:04 pmI wrote th book simply because ..$$$$
May 1st, 2007 at 3:04 pmLINK
http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20070427-125921-7372
May 1st, 2007 at 3:04 pmtenet uses the same framing that bush uses in an attempt to deflect criticism. did you notice his repeated references to the career intelligence officers during the 60min interview — and when you criticize tenet, you are implicitly criticizing the intel analysts. so don’t criticize george — either of them.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:06 pmTenet is a meathead who only cares about his own reputation.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:08 pmWhat news is news these days? You be the judge…
Take this mega issue (video) called: Lethal & Leaking… http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=1561703n
Over 1MILLIOM GALLONS of waste has already leaked out and made it to an aqufer (drinking water supply point). Just one small waste particle in your body will KILL YOU. This mess will not ever be cleaned up in a real sense.
Here is a quote from the article:
You can read that article here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/27/60minutes/main1553896.shtml
So what is the deal people? 1 million + galons of NUKE WASTE in the Washington State water supply and the nation turning into mush etc…
May 1st, 2007 at 3:09 pmtenet uses the same framing that bush uses in an attempt to deflect criticism.
did you notice his repeated references to the career intelligence officers during the 60min interview — and when you criticize tenet, you are implicitly criticizing the intel analysts. so don’t criticize george — either of them.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:09 pmthey won’t let you wear it in prison
May 1st, 2007 at 3:10 pmPonte , they are all self-serving, that’s what makes them part of the team.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:10 pmTobey Tall,
No Washington Times, it’s bad for my PC.
Here is one form the official source.
http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=307
May 1st, 2007 at 3:11 pmGeorge Tenet had done himself no favor to go before the public. He’s more pathetic than Gonzales.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:12 pm“PLEASE CALL Nancy Pelosi’s office right now. Here’s the deal as forwarded to me:
House Speaker Pelosi’s office is taking calls voting for Impeachment of Bush/Cheney at 202-225-0100.
Folks, each of you who have been wanting Impeachment, need to commit right now to ask at least 10 others to call and ask each person to commit to asking 10 others to call and so on. It needs to happen fast and NOW. Let’s BLITZKREIG the Speaker’s office with demands for Impeachment of Bush AND Cheney.
Please make a call, and thanks so very much.”
May 1st, 2007 at 3:14 pmTenet; “Slam Dunk!”
May 1st, 2007 at 3:18 pmFranks; “Mission Accomplished!”
Bremer; “What Money?”
\/\/ya; “Heckuva Job Brownies, ready for your medals?”
Tenet deserves all the criticism he’s getting and should not be left off the hook. Tenet could have resigned and informed the public of the truth at a point in time when it mattered. But he chose to lie instead to please his master. Tenet does not deserve the medal of honor. Turn-up the heat!
May 1st, 2007 at 3:20 pmComment by Fools on the Hill
Seeing as the Democratic leaders, MSM and even TP ignored all the impeachment rallies across the US, not sure how much it will help. Maybe if we flood the phone banks with calls it may get her attention.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:21 pmBush outlined his initiatives in his second energy speech in a week, reflecting growing concern in the White House that high energy prices are beginning to slow economic growth and undercut the president’s approval rating.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/27/politics/main691160.shtml
It’s all about resources people.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:21 pmTenet writing a book..conditioned:
1. I am not going to criticise anybody or point finger at anyone.
2. I don’t like someone criticising me.
3. The war was not my fault.
4.The war was not G.Bush’s fault.
5.I said ’slam dunk’..but I never meant it.
6.I could have said more than what I really said to Bush, but I didn’t.
7. The medal is mine,and I am not giving it up,and I intend to keep.
8. Don’t ask me about PNAC or Neocons…It is also not in the book.
9.I made reasonable effort to tell the truth,but with reasonable 4 to 5 million dollars to write this book.
Now I can sign the book for you.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:21 pmSell those books Mr. Tenet!!! Coward!
May 1st, 2007 at 3:23 pm#1 Yes and yes
Tenet is an absolute rotting horror. There is no human in there…..if there ever was, it’s been extinguished long ago
May 1st, 2007 at 3:24 pmIt’s not my intention to point fingers at people. I’m trying to tell a story.†Well Georgie, where I’m from, “telling stories” isn’t considered telling the truth.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:28 pmYou didn’t earn it, you don’t deserve it, you have tarnished it…give it back you piece of sh*t repukian horror.
Hating the Repukian Mafia daily
May 1st, 2007 at 3:30 pm9/ Saywho
Thats a horrific story of Nuclear waste management , something had better be done and Fast , no matter what you hear about nuclear reactors being green friendly they produce 0.012 grammes of high-level radioactive waste per kWh.
so 1 house using 10 KW per day makes 0.12g of waste x say 1 million people = 120,000 grams per day of high-level radioactive waste
as the germans say in 10,000 years from now its impossible to say we will not be in another ice age …….. what will happen to the billion tons of high-level radioactive waste ……….. If the Guys who build the pyramids left a million tones of radioactive waste we would not be able to open the tanks for another 5000 years ………………
May 1st, 2007 at 3:33 pmI had very little respect for Tenet before his book tour, now that has been reduced to zero.
For his explanation of “Slam Dunk” alone he should forever be recoginized for what he is, a half-ass pimp for war.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:34 pmHe can keep the medal, provided it is surgical implanted in the middle of his forehead, just underneath the tatooed word “liar”.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:34 pmWell hopefully when he does give up the medal it’ll be for a pack of smokes in the slammer.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:35 pmThe whole Bush gang is made up of worthless, lying traitors…
When Bush vetoes the occupation funding bill, the Democrats should simply let his war-ending veto stand. If our Royal Decider decides to defund and end the imperial corporate occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, so be it…
U. S. out of Somalia next.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:35 pmPssssst… George – Learn the following lesson well: Progs ONLY “love” you and think “happy” thoughts about you when you HATE any or all of the following: George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Don Rumsfeld, Dana Perino, Tony Snow, Mary Matalin, Republican atheists, anybody religious (except Muslims or New Agers), people who tear up when the Star Spangled Banner is played, etc. etc. etc.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:36 pmThis medal, along with most others given by bush, will have an asterik next to them in the history books.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:36 pmWhile I agree with many that Tenet does not deserve the medal, it is not for us to decide for him, and tell him to give it up. What if he bowed to the pressure and did? It would mean absolutely nothing. It has been suggested, now let it go. It would be all the more convincing, and truthful if he turned in the medal without pressure, otherwise there would be no indication of him knowing or admitting any wrongdoing on his part, only that he bowed to pressure to do so.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:36 pm“ABOLISH the MISSION NOWâ€!IMPEACH THE BASTARDS!
May 1st, 2007 at 3:40 pm
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“PLEASE CALL Nancy Pelosi’s office right now. Here’s the deal as forwarded to me:
House Speaker Pelosi’s office is taking calls voting for Impeachment of Bush/Cheney at 202-225-0100.
Folks, each of you who have been wanting Impeachment, need to commit right now to ask at least 10 others to call and ask each person to commit to asking 10 others to call and so on. It needs to happen fast and NOW. Let’s BLITZKREIG the Speaker’s office with demands for Impeachment of Bush AND Cheney.
Please make a call, and thanks so very much.â€
Comment by Fools on the Hill — May 1, 2007 @ 3:14 pm
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And where did you get this bit of info?There is nothing on Nancy’s official website about it. Yes, we should all call her (early and often) but I am suspicious – this sounds like a planned attack from Rove somehow.
Need a little verification, please.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:44 pmHe basically admitted to misleading America, which may not be a crime, but also in misleading Congress, which most definitely is.
See for example 18 USC 1001:
http://www.rewinn.com/18usc1001
May 1st, 2007 at 3:46 pmTenet may as well keep the medal. Considering its source, it’s basically meaningless.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:47 pmUnCurious George, that medal was given to you, not your team. You won it for giving the President and OVP, and to go away quietly. Your too-long delated public criticisms are not credible while you keep that albatross round your neck. Give it back or shut up.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:50 pmTake your stupid Cracker Jack medal and stuff it up your stinking bung-hole you bug-eyed lying lout. Thank You.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:57 pmSo…
He’s TELLING a story??? I thought he was attempting to shed light on the true dealings that led to the war???
So, he still is a BUSH *ss licker???
May 1st, 2007 at 3:57 pmdouchebag
May 1st, 2007 at 3:59 pmYeah, we figured that an abject loser like you would hang on to the medal. After all, it is just about all you have got now, George.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:00 pmJust why should he give back his medal?
Why aren’t you asking the vets to give back their medals?
May 1st, 2007 at 4:00 pmDOUBLEPLUSDOUCHEBAG
May 1st, 2007 at 4:04 pmVERY GOOD ARTICAL ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR THE HAUGE TRAIL
May 1st, 2007 at 4:05 pmBush probably would like to strangle Tenet with that medal…
May 1st, 2007 at 4:06 pmWhy are you such a dumb fu*k?
Very telling screen name. I here Bush is a power bottom also.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:10 pmTenet has guaranteed that history will forever record him as an utter scoundrel.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:11 pm#39 The trash that trolls this site sinks lower every day.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:13 pmThat medal has become meaningless since traitors like Tenant got it.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:14 pmIf the Guys who build the pyramids left a million tones of radioactive waste we would not be able to open the tanks for another 5000 years ………………
Comment by Tobey Tall — May 1, 2007 @ 3:33 pm
Well I’m glad you responded though my post is off the Tenet Topic. It is pretty obvious to me that there plenty of denial to go around. 1,000,000 gallons (plus) of high level nuclear waste made it to Washington’s DRINKING WATER and there is no real way to clean that since the waste is now OUT IN THE WILD. Notice that we are all still busy pointing fingers and arguing about lame people like Tenet while potions from WW2 are still cooking in tanks. There are many other sites that are considered “ongoing accidents” and we have gone way too far. There is no real plan to deal with waste and in fact the main plan is to encase the waste in glass and drop it in the ocean.
WeAreSoFu**ed when you consider the 1/2 life and the amounts of waste by volume around the Earth. We are running out of OIL now and the alternatives all have problems. Problems like dependency on oil to run mines, to deliver the energy (copper shortages), fuels that have negative EROEI (like ethanol) and the list goes on and on. 500B on a war and waste from WW2 has entered the people’s drinking water. Wait till all of the other Genie Bottles around the world open (they will).
It is almost like the end of Beneath the Planet of the Apes as Taylor sets off the Doomsday Device. We have done the same thing only it happens in slow motion.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:14 pmhe’s proud of a medal that he was rewarded for shutting up ?
May 1st, 2007 at 4:15 pmTenet is a meathead who only cares about his own reputation. (ponte’s quote)
You only got it half right, ponte.
Tenet is a meathead who doesn’t care about his reputation. He cares only for the $4 – $? million bucks he got for his bullshit book.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:18 pmAnd let people in the future deal with it? Geeezeus that is insane. Who the hell thought that up? Wait, let me guess. Haliburton?
May 1st, 2007 at 4:19 pmIf I can plagiarize Snoop-Dog:
F*ck George Tennet
May 1st, 2007 at 4:20 pmTenet though he could have his cake and eat it too. The collective American public should tell him to eat shit; he can find it between the covers of his book.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:22 pmComment by valiant venus
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Liar.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:27 pmI caught the “Wink Wink” when you said “We Don’t Torture”, George.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:28 pmMaybe THIS is the right thread to alert everyone to celebrate the President’s Loyalty Day!!
May 1st, 2007 at 4:34 pmhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20070430-3.html
Pssssst… George – Learn the following lesson well: Progs ONLY “love†you and think “happy†thoughts about you when you HATE any or all of the following: George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Don Rumsfeld, Dana Perino, Tony Snow, Mary Matalin, Republican atheists, anybody religious (except Muslims or New Agers), people who tear up when the Star Spangled Banner is played, etc. etc. etc. Comment by valiant venus — May 1, 2007 @ 3:36 pm
More projections from the Clinton/Carter/Gore/Liberal/NewAgers/Atheism hater…
You’re such a st*pid c*nt. Up your meds, and eat a tic-tac Anorexia girl. And stop your Nationalistic whining – this isn’t a KKK/Neo Nazi Rally you disgusting b*tch piece of sh*t.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:35 pmVVGFU: Projections? More like acute observations.
And how do you know VV is a girl anyway?
May 1st, 2007 at 4:40 pmAnd let people in the future deal with it? Geeezeus that is insane. Who the hell thought that up? Wait, let me guess. Haliburton?
Comment by Spudge_Boy — May 1, 2007 @ 4:19 pm
No Spudge_Boy,
May 1st, 2007 at 4:41 pmThis got started during WW2. But in fact there is nothing that we can do with nuclear waste except put it here then move it there. Spill some here drop some there. All along we add to it but the 1/2 life remains unchanged. In the end we are at the end of everything. Man’s greatest moment was going to the moon and soon we will return to the Stone Age that we came from except for the high levels of nuclear waste and general pollution. I mean we are running out of resources so the scenario I’m painting gets clearer as a likely conclusion of our situation.
“He’s never shied away from — from responsibility.â€
Very telling stutter, Tenet.
I hope he keeps that medal forever.
Every time he looks at it, he can think about the lie that got him the medal, the shame of his inept handling of the intelligence, and his general decline as a moral human being.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:55 pmWell, George: It’s sad, believe me, missy, when you’ve proven yourself a sissy.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:56 pmVVGFU: Projections? More like acute observations.
And how do you know VV is a girl anyway?
Comment by BottomBoy — May 1, 2007 @ 4:40 pm
Her myspace page… She’s an Anorexic 24 year old loser, living in San Diego. She sees herself as an Ann Coulter-ish girl. She’s acutely st*pid, and wingNUT’ish, but what wingNUT isn’t?
You wingNUTs spent 6 years of your life with Clinton Derangement syndrome – followed on by the last 6 years of Clinton Derangement syndrome – all the while with Boy George f*cking up one issue after another, and producing one disaster after another. You can’t hate your own st*pid choices, and failed conservative values – so all you can do is hate what you *perceive* to be the problem – everyone else!
You’re lunatics -one and all.
May 1st, 2007 at 5:04 pm“I will give up my medal when they pry my cold dead lying lips away from it”
May 1st, 2007 at 5:04 pmVALIANT-DOUCHE-BAG-B*TCH you don’t know sh*t about progs-you vile scum sucking piece of repukian crap, take a long suck on my butt.
Hating Valiant Douche Bag daily
May 1st, 2007 at 5:08 pm“I’m not going to give it back, because I’m keeping it for them…” Well, why not donate it to the CIA for all those reputations you slimed and careers you destroyed, George? George?
May 1st, 2007 at 5:10 pmBy the way, valiantvenus, you assuredly came from someone’s anus, but not mine.
SkdeA: regarding that call to Pelosi’s office about impeachment, I got the same type of message from VVAW(Vietnam Veterans Against the War) in today’s e-mail. I called, it’s legit. It only takes a few seconds.
May 1st, 2007 at 5:28 pmPlease don’t buy his book!
Don’t let this enabler profit from all of his transgressions.
If you must read his tripe, check it out from the library.
No money from me traitor!
May 1st, 2007 at 5:30 pmSimilarly, Bush was presented with a Purple Heart medal too. A Vietnam vet from Texas felt that Bush deserved one, since the Iraq war has disturbed his ‘beautiful mind” with the carnage going on there. Bush arranged for the vet and his wife to make the presentation in the Oval Office. No shit. Read for yourself at http://www.alternet.org. If this isn’t a slap in the face to veterans who honestly earned their purple hearts, I sure as hell don’t know what is.
May 1st, 2007 at 5:34 pmNo, Tenet’s not pointing fingers. ‘Cause if he did, he’d have to point the finger straight at his own chest. Me. I did it. I got us into this horrific mess, and slaughtered thousands of innocents.
May 1st, 2007 at 5:42 pm#67 Uncle Ho. The decider has plenty of time to meet such people and a guy from new orleans who came in fema trailer to praise bush but not sheehan who was right up his farmhouse in crawford.
May 1st, 2007 at 5:47 pmVVGFU: Hmmm. Valiant Venus sounds like an interesting acquaintance. :)
May 1st, 2007 at 5:55 pmIf this isn’t a slap in the face to veterans who honestly earned their purple hearts, I sure as hell don’t know what is.
Comment by Uncle Ho
That makes me want to throw up.
May 1st, 2007 at 6:08 pmdon’t forget Colin Powell…he too could have stopped the war…they have left us with life and limb and a debt…how do they sleep
May 1st, 2007 at 6:17 pmIf this isn’t a slap in the face to veterans who honestly earned their purple hearts, I sure as hell don’t know what is.
Comment by Uncle Ho
That makes me want to throw up.
Comment by Zooey — May 1, 2007 @ 6:08 pm
Zooey,
Now its my turn to say:
Blech!
What a disgusting speciman of evolution this Bush is! If scientists want to study the effects of inbreeding, Bush would be a good place to start. Misplaced honor with a Medal of Freedom to 3 assholes, and an unearned purple heart (along with a kick in the balls to real medal holders-a slap in the face is simply not adequate) to a service dodging phony patriot infuriates me! Shit I’m angry…
May 1st, 2007 at 6:25 pmFrom the article:
“I accepted the award on their behalf [the men and women of the CIA] and I will never give that medal back.”
What absolute crap! If that medal is for the people of the CIA, what right does he have to keep it? It should be displayed at the office of the CIA. What an arrogant, self serving prick. And $30.00 a pop for his self serving book when it isn’t worth the paper its written on. Lets have a book burning party, tar and feather the bastard, and ‘chute him into Iraq.
May 1st, 2007 at 6:34 pmNever much liked Tenant. He’s just reinforcing that. What a tool.
May 1st, 2007 at 6:52 pmTenent is a garbage human being..just like the vast majority of the Bush Administration members. History won’t forget either.
May 1st, 2007 at 6:55 pmTenet gave a pass to everything that Cheney and the Bushies wanted, while sweeping CIA field agents’ truthful assessments under the carpet. He is 100% complicit in the unjustified attack on Iraq.
“I was responsible for the Intel community”
May 1st, 2007 at 7:19 pmThat says everything. Tenet was the Enabler Supreme. Attending Colin Powell’s UN snow job, he demonstrated full support, even if he did appear to be sleeping.
Tenent, “I’m trying to tell a story”. Doesn’t he mean “I’m trying to Sell a story”?
May 1st, 2007 at 7:39 pm“VALIANT-DOUCHE-BAG-B*TCH you don’t know sh*t about progs-you vile scum sucking piece of repukian crap, take a long suck on my butt.
Hating Valiant Douche Bag daily”
Comment by Buck Fush
I’m no child molestor and since you seem about 9 – 12 years old, maybe you should get off the computer, ask your Mom for some cookies, and go outside and shoot some hoops…..
May 1st, 2007 at 7:46 pmOK, you accepted it on behalf of the CIA as an organization; how about you just hand it over to the CIA, and they can display it with an appropriate plaque in the lobby at Langley, with an appropriate attribution to you having received it on behalf of the CIA.
What a douchebag.
May 1st, 2007 at 7:55 pmI’m no child molestor and since you seem about 9 – 12 years old, maybe you should get off the computer, ask your Mom for some cookies, and go outside and shoot some hoops….. Comment by valiant venus — May 1, 2007 @ 7:46 pm
Yeah, Foley claimed he was no child molester either – but sorry, you’re as lunatic as he was. I’m inclined to believe you’re a disgusting pervert, just like those other spoiled *princess* types that molest the young children.
May 1st, 2007 at 8:13 pmJust read Tenet’s book. His account of why the CIA hid information from the FBI on Hazmi and Mihdhar is an extremely superficial account of this event leaving out all of the important details to justify why the CIA had the names Khalid al-Mihdhar, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Selem al-Hazmi, who were on AA 77 and yet deliberately with held this information from the FBI for 21 months. They even had the name Khallad bin Attash, mastermind of the Cole bombing.
The identity of these terrorists was uncovered when they traveled to Kuala Lumpur for an important al Qaeda planning meeting that took place from January 5-8, 2000. All of these terrorists were photographed at this meeting and were identified as long time al Qaeda terrorists. The CIA did not give this information to the FBI until August 23, 2001, over 21 months after they first had this information. They even withheld the photos of Khallad from the FBI for another 8 days, until August 30, until one day after the FBI had been conned into turning the search for Mihdhar and Hazmi into an intelligence investigation instead of a criminal investigation.
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In his book, he says when the CIR on Mihdhar was written by an FBI agent at the CIA on January 5, 2000, it was not sent to the FBI due to a simple mistake. But the FBI IG report says something different, it says that clearly written on the bottom of this CIR was the words; “Blocked by order of the Deputy Chief”, (the CIA bin Laden unit), Tom Wilshire. There it is, every body can see this was just a simple mistake. The CIA desk officer who wrote this note then sent out another cable just after this cable had been blocked that said the information on Mihdhar had been sent to the FBI when it fact it had not been sent.
Yes, there you have it, yet another simple mistake. When the FBI IG investigators talked to Wilshire, he says he can not remember this CIR, the desk officer says she can not remember this CIR, who told her to block it or even why she sent out another cable saying this information had been sent to the FBI or even who told her to send out this cable.
Easy to see, just simple mistakes combined with collective mass amnesia. But the CIA hid this information from the FBI as reported in the 9/11 Commission report and the FBI IG report, on al least 9 more occasions.
Yes, yes that’s it, just 9 more simple mistakes, making at least 10 all together, when the CIA deliberately hid information from the FBI.
They even hid the fact that Mihdhar and Hazmi were seen together with Khallad at the Kuala Lumpur meeting where the Cole bombing had been planned, clearly implicating them in the planning of the Cole bombing, but this information was withheld from the FBI Cole investigators at least 5 occasions, clearly just more simple mistakes.
Except isn’t obstructing an FBI criminal investigation into the murder of 17 US sailors an extremely serious criminal offense, in fact a major felony. But when they deliberately withheld this information from the FBI investigators looking into the murder of 17 sailors, they also withheld the very information that could have prevented the attacks on 9/11 and could have prevented the horrific deaths of 3000 innocent Americans on 9/11.
According to George, so many simple mistakes, according to the FBI IG investigators, so much collective amnesia.
See http://www.eventson911.com for more details
May 1st, 2007 at 8:38 pmI get the sense from watching his interviews that Tenet is on the verge of a breakdown. He has this impenetrable gaze and he does not sound sincere. He should be tried for crimes against humanity along with the rest of the Bush cabal.
May 1st, 2007 at 8:55 pmI listened to an excerpt from the 60 Minutes interview, on Democracy Now radio program.
May 1st, 2007 at 9:08 pmTenet did not do well, especially trying to answer tough questions about his authorization of torture….
I give Tenet credit for unifying the country.
Everybody hates him now.
May 1st, 2007 at 9:28 pmProgs ONLY “love†you and think “happy†thoughts about you when you HATE any or all of the following: George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Don Rumsfeld, Dana Perino, Tony Snow, Mary Matalin, Republican atheists, anybody religious (except Muslims or New Agers), people who tear up when the Star Spangled Banner is played, etc. etc. etc. Comment by vile venus —
Not so long ago, a Muslim woman posted on one of the threads, explaining her religion a bit, but I really don’t recall any of the regular posters here ever writing about how much they love Islam. If you can recall such a case, please let us know. Otherwise, it’s about time you drop your trite “progs love Islam/Islamofascist” bit. As for progs hating anyone religious other than Muslims or New Agers, I recall that we frequently have a poster here using the moniker “Patriotic Liberal Christian.” How do you explain that? For that matter, how do you explain that, as Mighty Aphrodite, you identified yourself as Catholic but are now claiming to be Jewish?
May 1st, 2007 at 10:42 pmTenet:
It is not my intention to point fingers when I do. Mine is just an episode of accidental finger-pointing.
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:11 amJust read Tenet’s book. His account of why the CIA hid information from the FBI on Hazmi and Mihdhar is an extremely superficial account of this event leaving out all of the important details to justify why the CIA had the names Khalid al-Mihdhar, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Selem al-Hazmi, who were on AA 77 and yet deliberately with held this information from the FBI for 21 months. They even had the name Khallad bin Attash, mastermind of the Cole bombing.
The identity of these terrorists was uncovered when they traveled to Kuala Lumpur for an important al Qaeda planning meeting that took place from January 5-8, 2000. All of these terrorists were photographed at this meeting and were identified as long time al Qaeda terrorists. The CIA did not give this information to the FBI until August 23, 2001, over 21 months after they first had this information. They even withheld the photos of Khallad from the FBI for another 8 days, until August 30, until one day after the FBI had been conned into turning the search for Mihdhar and Hazmi into an intelligence investigation instead of a criminal investigation.
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In his book, he says when the CIR on Mihdhar was written by an FBI agent at the CIA on January 5, 2000, it was not sent to the FBI due to a simple mistake. But the FBI IG report says something different, it says that clearly written on the bottom of this CIR was the words; “Blocked by order of the Deputy Chief”, (the CIA bin Laden unit), Tom Wilshire. There it is, every body can see this was just a simple mistake. The CIA desk officer who wrote this note then sent out another cable just after this cable had been blocked that said the information on Mihdhar had been sent to the FBI when it fact it had not been sent.
Yes, there you have it, yet another simple mistake. When the FBI IG investigators talked to Wilshire, he says he can not remember this CIR, the desk officer says she can not remember this CIR, who told her to block it or even why she sent out another cable saying this information had been sent to the FBI or even who told her to send out this cable.
Easy to see, just simple mistakes combined with collective mass amnesia. But the CIA hid this information from the FBI as reported in the 9/11 Commission report and the FBI IG report, on al least 9 more occasions.
Yes, yes that’s it, just 9 more simple mistakes, making at least 10 all together, when the CIA deliberately hid information from the FBI.
They even hid the fact that Mihdhar and Hazmi were seen together with Khallad at the Kuala Lumpur meeting where the Cole bombing had been planned, clearly implicating them in the planning of the Cole bombing, but this information was withheld from the FBI Cole investigators at least 5 occasions, clearly just more simple mistakes.
Except isn’t obstructing an FBI criminal investigation into the murder of 17 US sailors an extremely serious criminal offense, in fact a major felony. But when they deliberately withheld this information from the FBI investigators looking into the murder of 17 sailors, they also withheld the very information that could have prevented the attacks on 9/11 and could have prevented the horrific deaths of 3000 innocent Americans on 9/11.
According to George, so many simple mistakes, and according to the FBI IG investigators, so much collective amnesia.
See http://www.eventson911.com for more details
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:27 amI had a comment that was up for a while here at #84 but has disappeared despite the lack of abusive language.
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:00 amCOINTELPRO: more on Tenet’s book Hotlist
by ezdidit [Subscribe] [Edit Diary]
Tue May 01, 2007 at 02:31:02 PM EDT
Is Tenet’s book just some more COINTELPRO (counterintelligence proliferation) to add to the pyre of bullshit that is Bu$hCo’s 2007 Iraq War foreign policy?
The CIA: It’s a mystery, buried in an enigma, within a paradox. Just ten years ago, The Discovery Channel aired a program on the 50th Anniversary of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Things were different then. The French say, “Plus ça change, plus c’ést la même chose,” i.e., The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Is Tenet’s book just some more COINTELPRO (counterintelligence proliferation) to add to the pyre of bullshit that is Bu$hCo’s 2007 Iraq War foreign policy? The CIA: It’s a mystery, buried in an enigma, within a paradox. Just ten years ago, The Discovery Channel aired a program on the 50th Anniversary of the Central Intelligence Agency. Things were different then. The French say, “Plus ça change, plus c’ést la même chose,” i.e., The more things change, the more they remain the same.
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Since his resignation in July 2004, when George Tenet officially left his position as DCI (he was gone in May ‘04, with vacation, personal & sick days), he has been teaching. With the recent publication of his book, Mr.Tenet aired his views on 60 Minutes. (CBS has it posted now on its website.) In his mea culpa/apologia for the misdeeds in Iraq that continue unabated as a result of what he wants to represent as his compliance and compromise, and Administration spin, Tenet doesn’t really shed new light on his suspected collaboration. Oh, he massages a few facts and disputes his positions, but one cannot contradict what one did not do. And his words betray his undeeds.
Nor did he say very much on Sunday night about the outing of Valerie Plame-Wilson. Scott Pelley threw him an underhanded pitch, to which George answered:
“She’s one of my officers. That’s wrong. Big time wrong, you don’t get to do that,” Tenet says. “And the chilling effect that you have inside my work force is, ‘Whoa, now officers names are being thrown out the door. Hold it. Not right.’”
Asked how much damage that did, Tenet says, “That’s not the point. Just because there’s a Washington bloodletting game going on here and just because her husband’s out there saying what he’s saying. The country’s intelligence officers are not fair game. Period. That’s all you need to know.”
“They didn’t seem to know that in the White House,” Pelley remarks.
“I’m done with it. I’ve just told you what I think,” Tenet says.
So maybe that’s what Tenet’s book attempts, in part:
“…the chilling effect that you [can] have inside my work force…”
And the current blowback against Tenet from the State Department? More opportunities to rewrite Rice lies and “cannot recall” redux. But we know the facts. And in the context of a few short years, Tenet offers nothing new.
Can his book prompt a reemphasis on Administration and Rice lies about pre-Iraq war planning?
Richard Clarke’s book [Against All Enemies]
..recounts a conversation on September 12, 2001, in which President Bush himself said:
“Go back over everything, everything. See if Saddam did this. See if he’s linked in any way…”
I was once again taken aback, incredulous, and it showed. “But Mr. President, al Qaeda did this.”
“I know, I know, but … see if Saddam was involved. Just look. I want to know any shred …”
“Absolutely, we will look … again.” I was trying to be more respectful, more responsive. “But, you know, we have looked several times for state sponsorship of al Qaeda and not found any real linkages to Iraq. Iran plays a little, as does Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, Yemen.”
Following the publication of Clarke’s book, White House representative Stephen J. Hadley told the CBS 60 Minutes news program, “We cannot find evidence that this conversation between Mr. Clarke and the president ever occurred.” According to Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman, however, “two people who were present confirmed Clarke’s account. They said national security adviser Condoleezza Rice witnessed the exchange.” Gellman also noted that Rice has written an opinion article for the Washington Post which confirms that the conversation occurred.
(Good work, Mr.Gellman:-ed.)
Since this was the capstone of Tenet’s CIA career, his silence about the betrayal of Valerie and the burning of the Brewster Jennings op is certainly suspect. But that’s not all that comes to the fore, in the context of what we now know about COINTELPRO.
Going back to where this diary started: A 1997 press release from March 28th 1997:
CIA: Covert US Warriors Examined
by Parveez Syed © Shanti RTV News Agency
WASHINGTON DC [SCN] – Discovery Channel in the US is set to televise a three-part series on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Agency. The series, entitled “CIA: America’s Secret Warriors”, begins on Monday 31 March 97 at 10pm EST and runs through to Wednesday 02 April 97.
The series instructs and warns about the secret government. It includes a number of interviews with former directors, and officers – proponents as well as some critics. It deserves some sober attention and reflection.
Many critics of the Western or US intelligence community would consider “undemocratic empowerment” a valid description – secret budgets, criminality exempted from Justice Department action, policy approval that is often covert even with regard to broad issues, avoidance of public debate of many things it is assumed wouldn’t be approved, etc.
(emphasis:-ed.)
Plus ça change….
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:55 amTenet will go into history books at some point along with the Bush Regime and be always compared to Nazi Germany. Congratulations educators and schools all over the USA for NOT teaching the history of the USA and the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Congratulations for hiding the evidence of Tom Paine and what he did for all of us. Did you even know that it was Tom Paine who gave a name to our country? The military dictatorship of the United States of American is now in place. Mission Accomplished Herr Chairman Bush!
Read this article that appeared in Monday, April 23rd Guardian(London):
Fascist America, In 10 Easy Steps By Naomi Wolf
“From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17591.htm
This video prooves the democratic presidential candidates are a sick joke:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbvEAkHh1uA
cheers, you all asked for it!
May 2nd, 2007 at 5:15 amTenet is one of the September criminals. WTC 7 was a controlled demolition, obviously. Buildings 1 & 2 were also brought down at freefall speed, with military-grade thermate. Get on the bus
May 2nd, 2007 at 6:58 amGeorge TENET’S favorite joke:
a black and a hispanic are riding in a car–who’s driving????
a policeman!!!
May 2nd, 2007 at 8:40 amHA!
May 2nd, 2007 at 10:23 amThis guy and the whole damn crew never met a moral obligation… that they weren’t happy to trample over in order to grab some goodies.
The medal, as awarded is entirely appropriate. The only difference is the reason for its bestowal: When you consider that it was also given to L. Paul Bremer and to General Tommy Franks, you realize that the justification for it is NOT for accomplishment, but for abject FAILURE!
May 2nd, 2007 at 10:33 ama horse walks into a bar
bartender says “why the long face’????
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:58 pmTanent is an ‘economical’ prostitute at the least.
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:44 pma rabbi, a priest and a minister walk into a bar…..
bartender says “what is this? some kind of joke????”
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