Ray McGovern: Jail Time for Tenet?

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Jail Time for Tenet?
Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2008-06-11 17:49.

By Ray McGovern, Consortium News


President George W. Bush used to complain that being president was “hard work,” but he has gotten over that. Now he says it “has been a fabulous experience.”

Why fabulous? Well, a good part of it has to do with his past.

When Bush screwed up royally – whether in his personal or business affairs – he had to suffer the humiliation of asking his father or his father’s friends (sometimes Arab friends) to bail him out.

But now? Wow! As president, young George has found he can escape accountability altogether.

Now when he screws up royally, he need not call Dad; George W. Bush is himself in control of all the levers he needs to pull in order to bail himself out. Is this a great country or what?

An invertebrate Congress has been a big help. But his greatest asset limiting his liability has been the kind of folk he has gotten to work for him. The kind like Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, Scooter Libby, whom he has no problem asking to lie for him, when required.

For Bush’s powers are formidable – as he showed when Libby, convicted perjurer and obstructer of justice, was about to go off to prison. The president commuted Libby’s sentence, sending a message to others who might be called on to lie for him to hang tough and count on commutation or pardon.

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1. Tenet lied to the Senate hearing and the people which is

a felony. Take away his pension and he will soon tell the truth. Not just for perjury but a federal crime for treason.

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2. They let it happen on purpose.

In the first week of July, 2001 at the G-8 meeting in Genoa Italy they brought in anti-aircraft missile batteries, Bush didn’t even sleep in Genoa, he was flown out to an American Aircraft carrier surround by its attack group and Bush slept on the carrier, an American Aircraft carrier attack group is the strongest anti-aircraft system on the planet.

Never before had anti-aircraft defenses been deployed at G-8 meetings.

Also remember that Attorney General John Ashcroft quit flying on commercial airlines the first week of August, 2001

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