A Man for No Season
By Larry Johnson on May 6, 2007 at 12:32 PM in Current Affairs
[Note from Larry Johnson: Pat is not some Johnny-come-lately in dealing with George Tenet. As the head of Defense Humint Services and responsible for the U.S. military's "spies", Pat dealt fairly regularly with Tenet. My response to Pat, AMEN!]
George Tenet – he was on "Meet the Press" today. What a pitiful
spectacle. This is not a man. This is a whining, sniveling, political
bureaucrat; a spoiled child who, in his own mind, is never to blame for
anything, never really takes responsibility for his failures of
judgment and action, and spins, and spins and spins.
George’s "admissions" of responsibility are always carefully couched
in words that do not actually say things like, "I was wrong," "I
failed," "The war was a mistake," "I failed in what I did not do to
stop this oncoming disaster." He quibbles. Quibbling is not
acceptable in an intelligence officer, certainly not in the BOSS
intelligence officer. I wonder if the Society of Jesus is happy when
Tenet cites the principles that he thinks they taught him as
justification for his way of doing things.
Major points, George:
- You were appointed to produce finished intelligence products that
were CORRECT, that were TRUE, that represented REALITY. A good try is
not good enough. Because of the crap that the intelligence community
produced under your leadership, tens of thousands have died. Do the
honorable thing, George. - You were supposed to stop being a flunky for whomever was in power
when the Senate of the United States confirmed you to be head of the
intelligence community. Instead, you participated in a "marketing
campaign" to sell the American people a war about which you admit to
having qualms. You and your colleagues like Hadley, Mattalin, Libby
and Rice did a thorough job. A lot of the simple are still looking for
those WMD thingies in the bottom of an Iraqi lake. Do the right thing,
George. - You did not tell the Commander in Chief, (the commander guy) that
there was a "problem" with the raw information and the analyzed
intelligence? You did not tell him because your bureaucratic timidity
and "small timer’s" sense of organizational propriety restricted you to
dealing with his "followers?" My God! Do the right thing, George."
Do the right thing.
Originally posted at: http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2007/05/a_man_for_no_se.html
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