Tenet never saw or spoke w/ bush* the month of August

[maddezmom]

and as far as Tenet knows bush never wanted to speak or see him.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

1. Best stunned silence EVER! (& you beat me by 2 secs!)

[maddezmom]

2. wonder how this squares with comments bush has made?

I need to re-read the transcript from last night.

[pmbryant]

3. Not well

Bush pretty much implied he and Tenet talked virtually every day. That's my recollection.

--Peter

[maddezmom]

5. pretty much my recollection

so maybe Tenet isn't going to fall on his sword for bush8 afterall. He repeated the words: bush on vacation in TX atleast 2X. Making the point how out of touch bush is and was at that time.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

4. So he flat-out lied last night.

And no one will cover that contradiction on the news.

"As a matter of fact, I was dealing with terrorism a lot as the President when George Tenet came in to brief me" (when asked about the PDB from 8/6, which PROVES that he's lying, since Tenet just contradicted it).

[pmbryant]

6. Here's the full excerpt of Bush's comments on Tenet last night

From the transcript: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/14/politics/14BTEX.html?pagewanted=all&position=

(The emphasis is mine)

As a matter of fact, I was dealing with terrorism a lot as the president when George Tenet came in to brief me. I mean that's where I got my information. I changed the way, the relationship, between the president and the C.I.A. director. And I wanted Tenet in the Oval Office all the time. And we had briefings about terrorist threats. This was a summary.

Now in the, what's called the P.D.B. there was a warning about bin Laden's desires on America. Frankly, I didn't think that was anything new. I mean major newspapers had talked about bin Laden's desires on hurting America. What was interesting in there was that there was a report that the F.B.I. was conducting field investigations. And that was good news that they were doing their job.

The way my administration worked was that I met with Tenet all the time. I obviously met with my principals a lot. We talked about threats that emerged. We had a counterterrorism group meeting on a regular basis to analyze the threats that came in. Had there been a threat that required action by anybody in the government, I would have dealt with it. In other words, had they come up and said this is where we see something happening, you can rest assured that the people of this government would have responded and responded in a forceful way.

[maddezmom]

7. thanks for looking it up

Tenent busted bush* flat out on this one.