Ex-CIA chief's book to explain "slam dunk" on Iraq

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George Tenet, the former CIAdirector who assured President George W. Bush that finding unconventional weapons in
Iraq would be a "slam dunk," will give his account of the conversation in a book to be published by HarperCollins, the publisher said on Wednesday.


The News Corp.-owned company said it agreed to publish a Tenet memoir that is tentatively entitled, "At the Center of the Storm." The release was expected late this year or early in 2007. Representatives for HarperCollins and Tenet declined to discuss the deal's dollar value. HarperCollins said the book would shed light on Tenet's role at the CIA during the agency's campaign against al Qaeda that started in the 1990s, the September 11 attacks, the wars in
Afghanistanand Iraq and the rise of the Iraqi insurgency.

The book will also provide "the real context of Tenet's own now-famous slam-dunk comment" about
Saddam Hussein's suspected prewar weapon of mass destruction cache, the publisher said. The expression, used originally to describe a basketball move, has come to mean something which can be achieved with complete certainty.

The "slam-dunk" quotation first surfaced in journalist Bob Woodward's book, "Plan of Attack," which portrayed Tenet as assuring Bush that finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq would be a virtual certainty. The 2003 Iraq invasion was justified largely by intelligence that Saddam Hussein had such weapons. No such weapons were found, and the prewar intelligence effort has since been condemned by a presidential commission as one of the most damaging failures in recent U.S. history.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060118/pl_nm/security_tenet_dc

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1. I still believe Woodward used slam dunk out of context to PROTECT BUSHBOY.

Almost everything he wrote was designed to deflect blame for Bush.

Woodward never sees any wrongdoing by Bushes.

[AlCzervik]

3. i bet you're right and i'll be curious to see how Newscorp explains it

[grytpype]

4. You could be right.

I think we're going to get a very different version of the story now!

[kenny blankenship]

2. "At the center of the shitstorm, furiously cranking the wind-machine"

was the working title, but editors thought it might be a little too frank for Harper-Collins readers.

[teryang]

5. The campaign against al qaeda???

Is this a joke?

[KC21304]

6. Maybe Tenet will give back his medal. nt

[daleo]

7. Isn't there a law, that criminals can't profit from book sales? n/t

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

8. One guarantee:

Tenet will lie through his teeth.



Second guarantee:

The only "slam dunk" will be Tenet's book in the bargain bin.

[hang a left]

9. Ex-CIA chief's book to explain "slam dunk" on Iraq

Ex-CIA chief's book to explain "slam dunk" on Iraq
Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:44 PM ET167

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - George Tenet, the former CIA director who assured President George W. Bush that finding unconventional weapons in Iraq would be a "slam dunk," will give his account of the conversation in a book to be published by HarperCollins, the publisher said on Wednesday.

The News Corp.-owned company said it agreed to publish a Tenet memoir that is tentatively entitled, "At the Center of the Storm." The release was expected late this year or early in 2007.

Representatives for HarperCollins and Tenet declined to discuss the deal's dollar value.

HarperCollins said the book would shed light on Tenet's role at the CIA during the agency's campaign against al Qaeda that started in the 1990s, the September 11 attacks, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the rise of the Iraqi insurgency.

The book will also provide "the real context of Tenet's own now-famous slam-dunk comment" about Saddam Hussein's suspected prewar weapon of mass destruction cache, the publisher said. The expression, used originally to describe a basketball move, has come to mean something which can be achieved with complete certainty.

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http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-01-18T234430Z_01_N18215173_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-TENET.xml

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10. I'll be very interested in ""the real context of Tenet's own now-famous...

...slam-dunk comment". We all know how it was reported by Woodward, now let's see what it really meant and in what context it was used.

My secret hope is that Tenet absolutely blows the NeoCon Junta out of the water!

[wordpix]

11. another BushCo higher up profiting from his incompetence and lies

[Javaman]

12. What I really meant by "slam dunk"....

excerpt from Tenets book on the real meaning of Slam Dunk...

...so when I said to the president slam dunk I was really meaning it in a negative fashion. Both words independently are actually really negative words. Slam being to slam something down or to degrade and dunk, well, I think that one is apparent. You know, like in: someone got dunked in the water.
It's just odd that the two words together in a phrase came out to be something that I didn't actually mean. Heck, when I said Slam Dunk, I was thinking that this was a really really bad thing to do. But you know how the media twists things around.
On another front, after I won the PGA...