Did Medal of Freedom Buy Tenet's Silence?

[Hissyspit]

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Did Medal of Freedom buy Tenet's silence?
RAW STORY
Published: Tuesday June 26, 2007

Revealing that former CIA director George Tenet gave up $2 million in delaying publication of his memoir, an essay in The New Republic speculates President Bush or his father -- or someone close to them -- convinced Tenet to delay and write a book uncritical of the president.

Tenet began preparing an auction of his memoirs almost immediately after his 2004 resignation, garnering a winning bid of more than $4 million from Random House's Crown Publishing Group, reports Patrick Tyler in TNR. Tenet suddenly got cold feet when it came time to put ink to paper on the deal, and he ended up delaying a book contract for the next 18 months. When it finally came time to ink a deal, the value of Tenet's memoir was cut in half, and he settled for around $2 million from HarperCollins, Tyler reports, based on a source in the publishing industry.

"Which raises a question: Why did a man who seemed so bent on cashing in put off writing his memoir -- at a loss of some $2 million?" Tyler asks. "There can be no doubt that, while the delay was costly to Tenet, it was valuable to the White House," Tyler writes. "The net effect was to push the book's publication date beyond the 2006 elections."

At the time he was hemming and hawing over the book deal, Tenet received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Tyler notes, but Tenet insists that's simply a coincidence. Tenet wasn't "clear on what conversations he'd had with members of the Bush family during the 18-month interval between actions," the article notes.

Former Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar also hyped speculation of a Bush intervention in the publication delay. "I knew President Bush called him," Bandar, a close friend of Tenet, told Tyler. "The question is: Was it 41 or 43?"

[hippiechick]

1. He probably woke up next to a horse's head ...

... knowing the BFEE .... :scared:

[wildhorses]

2. yeah, they made him an offer he couldn't refuse

;)

[dkofos]

3. That, and dick threatening to shoot him in the face.

[KharmaTrain]

4. How About Tenet Let Himself Get Compromised

Mata Hari couldn't have extorted any finer. As we are now reading daily in the WAPO, Tenet, like most others outside of the OVP and the ISG were mere props in pushing the neo-con's war for profit. Tenet had to know he was being run-over by Cheney when crashcart would go to Foggy Bottom and bark for the intel HE wanted. Tenet could either try to stand down the cheney mafia or he could go along, get along and no one would be the wiser. He played dumb and compliant...and now I see him sitting behind Powell at the U.N. as another part of the set up...but their faces, worldwide, on this invasion...not cheneys or feiths or any of the neo-cons. The sucker was lured and got in too deep to turn back.

Then out comes the "Slam Dunk" statement...planted in the corporate media just as Tenet announces his retirement...surely to show him that "we can make you and we can break you". A "subtle" shot across the bow of how quick this regime can turn him from hero to goat.

Yes...that medal was surely to buy his silence...especially for the '04 election. Tenet's multi-million dollar 'mea culpa' does little to disprove this. What a pathetic figure...a man without convictions who now wants to wash the blood off his hands with a nice paycheck. No pity, no mercy here...he goes to the Hague with all the other crooks. Powell, included!!!