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I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

There is no question George Tenet more than failed as an American, as Director of the C.I.A. and as a man. His willful breach of his responsibilities as Director is at the very least shameful and disgraceful. More directly, criminal. By making a conscious decision and taking deliberate steps to “go along to get along” with the Bush/Cheney plan to lie to the world regarding Iraq’s WMD program, the links between Sadaam Houssein and Al Queida, and much more, Mr. Tenet has betrayed us all.

George Tenet:

You are fully aware of the importance of HUMINT to any Nation’s National Security. Additionally, you are aware of how painstaking , frustrating, and dangerous fieldwork is. Developing effective relationships requires highly skilled, dedicated, and very responsible people on both sides of every bridge irrespective of the Countries involved. You simply sold us all out. The fact you were threatened to go along or else is no excuse. Consider the careers and efforts of all the analysts, supervisors and other personnel that did the best they could to resist the Criminally Maniacal Frenzy with which Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and others have bullied their way to a baseless war with IRAQ for power and personal monetary gain just to start with. Face the facts – you are a thief, you are a coward, a proven risk to our National Security, and you tarnished the office of Director of Central Intelligence. Moreover negatively impacting the integrity, faith and confidence the world intelligence community previously placed in the office of the Director of the C.I.A. Hence essentially abrogating an important asset once available to all field personnel, more significantly to anyone working on a critically sensitive matter. Mr. Tenet you made your own decision to stand with and be part of a group of “Men Without Honor”. You all have gone way too far. I am confident you will all be held accountable.

You and all others involved in this “Treasonous Scheme” have the blood of more than 3,750 dead U.S. Military Personnel, more than 26,000 wounded United States Military Personnel. American sons, daughters, moms and dads. Additionally, the blood of several hundred thousand Iraqis. Our country has yet to realize the psychological effects this will have on Military Personnel fighting in Iraq. You have debased the United States and everything it stands for. Shame on you.

Mr. Tenet it is abundantly clear that you are looking for cover and will find nowhere to hide, in what amounts to an ill-fated exit strategy. You have faced off with everyone in the Intelligence sector in a fight over not only our Professionalism, our National Integrity and National Pride but also our Personal Integrity and Personal Pride as well. Accept the obvious. You state that you value your reputation. Actions mean something, your words mean nothing. Your only chance to redeem any morsel of dignity or self respect is to submit your personal request to the F.B.I. for an immediate appointment so the Bureau can fully debrief you regarding all crimes you may have played a role in, also the identities and details of all who committed any other criminal acts you have knowledge of, including a particular Country Club on Long Island where you have had meetings, again the identities of all attendees and the nature of those meetings. Next the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence so that the process to properly assess the damage done to our National Security can begin. On one particular trip in1999 I landed in Eastern Europe and was picked up by my contact; his driver proceeded to take us to a pre-agreed location for an early dinner meeting. I realized within minutes we were heading in the wrong direction. My contact then told me they knew what I wanted. The contact told me what it was. They were specifically correct. I had been intentionally compromised. Not a good situ. Due to the relationship being very mature and reliably effective for all concerned, I am still here. I learned how I may have been compromised that day and qualified the information over the next several months. Of further insult, some people tried to convince me that the F.B.I. was responsible for the compromise. Who could they be? You do know, George, I know you do.

I strongly suggest that you come forth with all of the information you are aware of regarding the damage that has been done to our National Security by you and others. If you have any sense of what is right left in you, that is. Perhaps you should start with why you resigned so abruptly in June of 2004. Coincidentally, it was at about this time that I was briefed on a potential deal between Rudolph Giuliani and President Bush, which included appointing Bernard Kerik as Head of Homeland Security. You were amongst us who knew that the destruction that would come of that simply could not be tolerated. You also knew why.

By the way, how is it that you were a Clinton install, and President Bush kept you on – what was the nature of this phenomenon? It is essential you step forward and brief the FBI on the multinational Matrix project.

Appalled,
Larry Ray

And Dan Rather lost his job…. unlike the folks in the Bush Admin who kept pushing those pathetic forgeries…

You have sucked up too much Kool-Aid.

I’m sorry to disappoint you but the documents are 100% legitimate.

I asked Dan Rather and Mary Mapes to run them by the same people to verified the Bush National Guard documents. They guarantee them.

Given that the intelligence was wrong, and that Saddam’s regime is gone and Iraq is under US occupation, I rather doubt that there are any spies involved who need protection. Besides, evidence could be easily turned over to the IAEA without disclosing the identities of the supposed spies.

Besides, if the Brits’ sources were that secret, then why did Bush announce to the world that the Brits had the intelligence on Saddam?

Just give it up and admit that you have nothing to back up your views.

And here’s a little exercise that will show you how incredibly incompetent and corrupt the Bush Admin is. Google up some copies of the Niger documents (they are all over the web). Read through them and note how “Iraq” is spelled in those French-language documents. Then hunt up an on-line English-French dictionary and see how the French spell “Iraq”.

Intelligence is often gathered by spies, so I think you can imagine some reluctance in giving away their identities.

I wonder if she’s got a blue dress?

But aside from that, the IAEA had jurisdiction over the matter and had every right to the Brits’ information.

And I can’t explain the actions of Saddam or even those of my wife for that matter.

If you had a basic understanding of nuclear physics/engineering, you’d realize how totally absurd the yellowcake claims were. Even if Saddam wanted more yellowcake, letting him waste more money adding to the tons of the yellowcake he already had access to would have done nothing to increase the supposed wmd threat.

Had the Bush admin officials listened to experts at LANL and other DOE nuclear research laboratories, they would have known that giving Saddam all the yellowcake he wanted would not have increased the wmd threat one bit.

Hyping Saddam’s supposed attempts to buy yellowcake as a wmd threat would have been totally dishonest even if the claims *were* true.

Perhaps the Brits don’t want to make an “int” source or sources public? You can grasp that, no?

And I can’t explain the actions of Saddam or even those of my wife for that matter.

Then, Condi will be either have to “testify” a la I-Don’t-Recall Gonzolez, or she will have to step aside as national security adviser.

Anyone taking bets on this one?

Please visit the Schapira blog, What we know so far …

“… and tell ‘em Big Mitch sent ya!”

Then why did the Brits refuse to provide the information about those sources to the IAEA after the IAEA requested it?

And aside from that, what about the fact that Saddam already had tons of yellowcake that he couldn’t even use? What would he have done with still more yellocake that he could not enrich? The whole Iraq-Niger caper should be transparently bogus to anyone with more than two firing neurons to rub together.

How about the fact that dear old George Tenet and the CIA withheld the information that Khallad bin Attash, mastermind of the Cole bombing, was photographed at the at the Kuala Lumpur planning meeting with Mihdhar and Hazmi, and this information was deliberately withheld from the FBI Cole investigators on 5 separate occasions. This is the information that could have allowed the FBI to prevent the attacks on 9/11. This is clearly a criminal felony, and has been covered up by all of the government investigations into 9/11. The CIA deliberately withheld this information from the FBI even when they were aware of a huge al Qaeda attack inside of the US that would kill thousands of Americans and knew that Hazmi was inside of the US and that Mihdhar had a US visa and hence had to know that both would likely take part in these attacks. Tenet and the CIA then deliberately withheld the photograph of Khallad from the FBI for another 8 days, after their conspiracy to hide this information on Mihdhar and Hazmi fell a part and they had been forced to transfer the photos of Mihdhar and Hazmi to the FBI. This effectively and completely sabotaged any significant FBI investigation of Mihdhar until after the attacks on 9/11 were completed.

Good one Ani. :-)