I didn’t mean to make it seem like George Tenet is the greatest thing since sliced bread; he’s actually a pretty greasy weasel who is only fessing up now – way, way after the fact, not to mention after a nice little payday for his book. Richard Clarke, former chief counter-terrorism adviser on the U.S. National Security Council, at least had the decency to come right out with the very same assertions during the 9/11 Commission hearings Mr. Tenet is only now revealing. Oh yes, and what did the administration (Condoleeza Rice, in particular) do after Mr. Clarke’s testimony? You guessed it! Attempted to discredit him at all costs.
There is a picture of Dr. Rice being interviewed on CBS’s Face the Nation on page A6 of the NY Times today and she has this preposterous look on her face that says: “The fact that anyone would accuse this administration of wrongdoing is simply unconscionable!”
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Friday, April 27, 2007
Falsely Held Administration Tenet
Seriously now, how many more times will the White House use the old ‘who you gonna trust? Them or us?!’ routine? When nearly every single former cabinet member or other GOP stooge rats out the administration, it can’t all be fabrications. The most recent defector is former CIA Director, George Tenet, who states in his soon to be released book titled I am George Tenet, Hear me Roar (actually that was just the working title, which was stupidly nixed in favor of At the Center of the Storm) that Darth “Cheney and other administration officials pushed the country to invade Iraq without a ‘serious debate’ about whether Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18348452/
Tenet was just about if not the only bridge from the Clinton administration to the Bush one (pun intended) and while he has certainly shouldered a fair share of the blame regarding both 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, the current administration constantly works under the illusion that orders do not come from the top down, but rather each individual makes his or her own decision, therefore they should be held solely responsible.
I was informed when I was a teenager that passing the proverbial buck is simply not a respectable action to take if you are indeed somehow responsible. I learned this when I was a teenager and the seasoned politicos of this administration still have not learned to do so! One might expect more from the executive branch of the most powerful nation in the world, but this is what we’ve come to – and believe you me, it’s only going to get worse. Who is Condoleeza Rice going to blame if and when she has to testify before the Senate about the yellow-cake uranium from Niger? No doubt it will be some temp they hired for a summer internship or something.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18348452/
Tenet was just about if not the only bridge from the Clinton administration to the Bush one (pun intended) and while he has certainly shouldered a fair share of the blame regarding both 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, the current administration constantly works under the illusion that orders do not come from the top down, but rather each individual makes his or her own decision, therefore they should be held solely responsible.
I was informed when I was a teenager that passing the proverbial buck is simply not a respectable action to take if you are indeed somehow responsible. I learned this when I was a teenager and the seasoned politicos of this administration still have not learned to do so! One might expect more from the executive branch of the most powerful nation in the world, but this is what we’ve come to – and believe you me, it’s only going to get worse. Who is Condoleeza Rice going to blame if and when she has to testify before the Senate about the yellow-cake uranium from Niger? No doubt it will be some temp they hired for a summer internship or something.
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