Maybe Kerry was right about having Tenet resign...

[kerry-is-my-prez]

I initially was on Kerry's case for this but apparently, Tenet is falling on his sword for BushCo. and is being the loyal soldier. Pat Buchanan just said that if Tenet is forced to resign then he will turn against Bush. "They're all in it together and if one takes the blame for it - they'll start turning on each other" he said.

[YouMustBeKiddingMe]

1. According to front page story on MSNBC site

Tenet says US analysts never claimed Iraq posed an imminent threat. That doesn't exactly sound like falling on his sword to me.

[lancdem]

4. That struck me, too

That doesn't sound he's defending the Bush administration.

[sandnsea]

7. Yes it is

The intelligence, reports and testimony DID NOT say imminent threat. They said "Denial and Deception".

So how did the public get the idea there was an imminent threat? By the Bush Administration in the media. And by carefully wording their reports to make old facts look like new intelligence. Remember when Graham said you'd need a grammar lesson to figure out what those reports said?

Now they are falling back on the literal words in their testimony and ignoring all the crap they said in the media and the way they distorted intelligence in their reports and testimony. Tenet is helping them do that.

We have to go back to "they're in the area of Baghdad and Tikrit" and "mushroom clouds" and "teaspoons that can kill thousands" which they put into the media. And dig back into the misrepresentations in the testimony.

The investigations will help do that as well as keeping this out in the media.

[YouMustBeKiddingMe]

10. Maybe so. But somehow I think Tenet is going to cover his butt

in the long run. I see the stink so far sticking to Bush and Cheney.

I just sense the change in the air that people, particularly those who voted for Bush, understand now that Iraq had no WMD's, had nothing to do with 911, and that there was a plan to go to war with Iraq even before 911. Peoples eyes are beginning to open and they don't see him as the honest "good ole boy" anymore.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

2. Bottom line:NO ONE has been held accountable for 9/11 intelligence failure

Tenet should have lost his job right away, along with many others.

That doesn't mean Bush shouldn't be held accountable. There is plenty of blame to spread around.

[HFishbine]

5. Before pointing fingers at Tenet

Where is the "intellegence failure" of which you speak? Remember Tenet headed the CIA, so I'll have to see evidence of CIA failures, not evidence of CIA intellegence as it was wrongly spun by the Office of Special Plans.

[isbister]

3. Kerry was also right

if only to remove a future scapegoat for bush.

[Fleshdancer]

6. Removing Tenet won't solve the problem unfortunately

I would love to see Kerry go a few steps further and go after PNAC. Now that would be useful.

[sandnsea]

9. neocons

When he goes after neocons, he's going after PNAC. Things have to be done in a methodical way. This is just beginning.

[TheDonkey]

12. So you would keep Tenet in?

I sure wouldn't. He's gotta go now, we can dig further after the dominoes crumble.

[NNN0LHI]

8. Maybe? Holy Jesus. You didn't know Tenet was part of the problem?

Oh man.

Don

[TheDonkey]

11. Some people just like bashing Kerry they don't even care when he's on msg

Tenet needed then and needs now to RESIGN!

I can't believe the crying going around DU when Kerry suggested that. It was sad.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

13. Correction: IS sad

all the Kerry bashing and smearing here is really sad.