Perle: Tenet trying to shift blame for 9/11

[Judi Lynn]

Source: cnn

Perle: Tenet trying to shift blame for 9/11
POSTED: 7:40 p.m. EDT, May 4, 2007

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Richard Perle said Friday that former CIA Director George Tenet is attempting to "shift blame" for his failure to anticipate the September 11, 2001, attacks and recognize the threat terrorists posed to the United States.

The former assistant secretary of defense, singled out in Tenet's book for immediately linking former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein with the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, disputed Tenet's recollection.

"He simply makes up things I never said and places them on a date I wasn't even in the country," Perle said on CNN's "The Situation Room."

In Tenet's book about his tenure at the CIA, "At the Center of the Storm," he writes that the day after the 9/11 attacks, Perle told him, "Iraq has to pay the price for what happened. They bear responsibility."


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/04/perle.tenet/index.html

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[Zynx]

1. Having a hard time picking which of these guys to root for. Both...so...slimy...

[The Stranger]

13. If you know the history, you know that Richard Perle makes Tenet look like Ghandi.

Perle personifies evil. No hard time picking here at all.

[arewenotdemo]

19. Agreed

"If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war ... our children will sing great songs about us years from now."

Richard Perle

[windy252]

17. I agree

I still think if Tenet truly regrets this, he should give his Medal of Freedom back.

[JDPriestly]

2. Call them both before Congress and let them tattle on each other.

The truth outs. They were all in it together. They are all guilty of war crimes.

[acmavm]

3. Okay, here's the choice. Liar/Traitor #1 vs Liar/Traitor #2.

What a selection to chose from.

They're both guilty in my eyes.

[Decruiter]

4. The ass calling the turd smelly

[tabasco]

5. Perle is a war criminal and traitor.

There will be no justice until he is in prison for his crimes against humanity.

Tenet deserves prison time himself for his role in launching an unjustified war of aggression.

[Gman]

6. There is no honor in that den of snakes in the WH

and they will strike and try to kill each other off.

[sofa king]

7. Just out of curiosity, was Michael Ledeen also in France that day?

Maybe they were lunching with Larry Franklin and Manucher Ghorbanifar?

Just a hunch.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. Perle the mastermind of 9/11?

he's got some nerve!

[LeftofU]

9. Both belong in jail...

...here's to wishful thinking.

[joshdawg]

10. Aw shucks!

It's Clinton's fault!

[LynnTheDem]

11. "Mohammed Atta met Saddam Hussein in Baghdad prior to September 11. We have proof of that..."

"Mohammed Atta met Saddam Hussein in Baghdad prior to September 11. We have proof of that, and we are sure he wasn't just there for a holiday."
-dick Perle, September 2002

"we would be justified in concluding that Saddam was probably involved in the September 11, 2001, attacks as well."

-dick Perle, September 2002

[The Stranger]

14. Perle should have been indicted for war crimes years ago.

Where is Madame Defarge knitting these day?

[Zhade]

16. And they were complete lies.

Fucking Perle - such a liar!

[yojon]

12. I need a shower

eeeeuuuuuu!

[indypaul]

15. Choose your favorite James or Menendez brother. n/t

[annabanana]

18. Perle should just keep his lying pie-hole shut...

Why does HE get to complain to anyone about anything?

[Faygo Kid]

20. Tenet's a jerk, Perle is a loathsome worm. Lock 'em away together.

Both of them have blood on their hands, and they are enablers of the most venal administration in history. Perle is probably the worst of the two, but that's like picking your roommate between the choice of Jeffrey Dahmer and Vlad the Impaler.

The funny thing is, as bad as they are, you can always find someone worse. . .