George Tenet

[justsam]

will be giving a speech at Georgetown U. in about 2 mins and will be on C-SPAN

[Cooley Hurd]

1. I thought he was going to testify in front of the...

...Armed Services committee.

Why a college speech?

[underpants]

2. Link C-Span

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

[veganwitch]

3. im listening right now

and so far its a 9.11 circle jerk fest.

[Just Me]

4. The audience selected through "Darwinian" process *smile*,...

,...I realize what I am about to say is really trivial; BUT, I never before noticed that Tenet has a deeply pock-marked face.

<edit - not that appearances mean anything in this country :)>

[justsam]

5. my wife said

he reminded her of Freddy Krugger

[Just Me]

8. *LOL*

[underpants]

6. "We are never completely right or completely wrong"

.

[underpants]

7. "Analysts never said there was an imminent threat"

"No one told us what to say or how to say it"

[gandalf]

9. Right! I heard that too!

But BushCo for sure mentioned "imminent thread" (cf The Daily Mislead). So Tenet says BushCo lied!

[Just Me]

10. Clearly another PR, propaganda speech,...

,...am I surprised? NOT!!!!

[underpants]

12. He's is citing several sources for info-history, electronic, human

You are right he isn't backing up his guys, he is backing up the white house.

[Cooley Hurd]

13. He falls on his sword yet again...

...says Saddam was brutal dictator, he gassed his own people, yada yada yada.

He's backing up the cabal. Big surprise, huh?

[gandalf]

14. But he directly contradicted the Administration

regarding "imminent threat".

On May 7th, less than a week after the president announced the end of major combat operations, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer was asked, "Didn't we go to war because we said WMD were a direct and imminent threat to the U.S.?" He replied, "Absolutely."7 Similarly, in November 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said, "I would look you in the eye and I would say, go back before September 11 and ask yourself this question: Was the attack that took place on September 11 an imminent threat the month before or two months before or three months before or six months before? When did the attack on September 11 become an imminent threat? Now, transport yourself forward a year, two years or a week or a month...So the question is, when is it such an immediate threat that you must do something?" Most notably, Vice President Cheney said two days after President Bush's 2003 State of the Union that Saddam Hussein "threatens the United States of America."
http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/read.asp?fn=df01282004.html

[BlueEyedSon]

11. Looks like he's taking a fall for the Admin.

[Atman]

15. Cover your eyes, children! Bush and Tenent....

are dry humping right on national teevee.

*Sheesh.* Now we know who rights the songs W's been singing. This is ridiculous.

Where is the urgent evidence that leads a nation to war, dammit?

[underpants]

16. Citing Kay report of missiles found and sought

if the war had not happened Saddam would have missiles that are in breach of UN resolutions and endanger the entire Middle East.

[underpants]

17. Secret talks with North Korea were taking place

.

[Clovis Sangrail]

18. same old snowjob so far n/t

.

[underpants]

19. Unmanned aircraft to dispense Bios were in the plans

Intent is without question BUT they don't know if Saddam would have used for an attack.

[nostamj]

20. god, this is sickening

he's back on the aerial drones!

this is the reverse of the Newsweek cover: WE WERE NOT WRONG!

:puke:

[ThomWV]

21. How Fast Can His Resignation ....

How fast do you think his resignation should be in the hands of the new President next January? I'd say within a half hour of the oath of office.

Thom

[Mari333]

22. Trotting out Tenet for damage control

Twist and spin! How many times is Tenet going to bend over?
Isnt there anyone in the CIA who has actual balls about this? Where is our whistleblower..
Tenet is making the BS case to keep *bUsh off the hook and the rest of the liars in the administration
WHERES OUR DANIEL ELLSBERG

[Moderator]

23. Locking--dupe

Please continue here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1087241

[RapidCreek]

24. Looks like ole Mr. Tenet is working on a nice position at Carlyle

RC