Is Tenet a good guy?

[Kira]

What do you guys think of him. I can't decide. He was running around trying to get them to pay attention. But I do think that he knows that * didn't do his job and is covering for him.

[freetobegay]

1. He's a spook trying to cover his ass!

:shrug:

[Goldmund]

2. No way.

He's in with them. Otherwise he would have lost his job 10 times by now.

[Warpy]

5. His job is to fall on his sword

...which he has done several times already.

When he gets sick of being perforated, he may turn into a good cop.

[Old and In the Way]

3. Mutually co-blackmailed.

I think Bush and Tenet have the goods on each other. Not sure what the BFEE has on George, but it must be ugly.

Tenet was a Clinton appointee....why didn't Bush dump 9/11 on him? Why didn't they dump him for that bad intel that got us into this war with Iraq?

The fact that he hasn't, tells me that Tenet knows a lot more than he's telling us. But there has to be something the BFEE has on Tenet that keeps him in check.

[whistle]

4. Yes, I think George Tenet blew it...

...but I think he blew it because he may have been intimidated by the Bushies, namely Ashcroft, Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney, pre-9/11. Now he's covering their asses because he knows that if he blows any whistles his life may be on the line. Did you see what the Bush administration is now trying to do to the 9-11 commission, dismantle it using Ashcrofts attack on Jamie Gorelick. Will these people stop at nothing?

[wasichu]

6. he is slime

I think I heard him blaming civil liberties for 9/11 like Ashcroft did.

[Mattforclark]

7. Yes

He is a very honest person. Sincerety seeps out when you watch his speech a few months ago about Iraq intelligence that he gave (I think @ Georgetown)

[Postman]

8. Tenet is an enabler of fascism

He was MIA when it came to Bush's uranium SOTU speech.

He sat behind Colon Powell, as if to say to the world - "yes, I put my stamp of approval on all these lies this house-boy sitting in front of me is spewing" on Feb 5, 2003.

[NNN0LHI]

9. He is about as bad as they get. Believe me on this one n/t

[PassingFair]

10. Well, I, for one have rather high hopes for him...

there's something in his eyes. I'm thinking he'll reach a breaking point. BFEE will do something dastardly to someone he admires or is responsible for, and I think he'll get in line behind Clarke.

[Minstrel Boy]

11. "Good guys" don't rise to the top of the CIA. And they certainly wouldn't

stay there.

I'm sure some heads of the Gambino family were better than others, but it would be a stretch to call any of them "good."

[DeepModem Mom]

12. He puzzles me, too -- especially after the correction...

to his testimony today:


...Mr. Tenet's testimony before the panel was followed a few hours later by an abrupt reversal in which he corrected himself. The director had told one panel member, Timothy J. Roemer, a Democratic former congressman from Indiana, that while other C.I.A. personnel had briefed President Bush during the summer of 2001, he himself did not talk to the president that month.

But this afternoon, a C.I.A. spokesman, Bill Harlowe, said the director may have misunderstood the question. Mr. Harlowe said Mr. Tenet had indeed briefed Mr. Bush that month — at his ranch in Texas on Aug. 17 and on Aug. 31 in Washington. Nothing out of the ordinary was talked about, said the C.I.A. official who corrected Mr. Tenet....


C.I.A. Chief Defends Agency but Allows 'We Made Mistakes'
By TERENCE NEILAN and DAVID STOUT
Published: April 14, 2004

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/14/politics/14CND-PANE.html?hp

[bushbeater]

13. Huh? He just blamed the Clinton years for cutting his budget too much!

Dissing the big dog is not on the Democratic menu as a good thing to do. As Trump says...he's out!!!

[AlCzervik]

15. Tenet knew that the 16 words

in shrubs SOTU were complete crap but he let him proceed and didnt blow any whistles. His first duty should be to the PEOPLE of this country and not its current Squtter-in-chief. he failed all of us by letting Bush get away with that and God knows what else. He is no man of the people.

[kentuck]

14. He's a lying stack of shit that should have been gone a long time ago

He's covered for Bush and Bush has covered for him. They both need to go.