"He will tell a story that I think will make people's hair curl.

[rodeodance]

i do hope it is a 'tell all"

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Subject: Tenet's book coming out; more for you to read...
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:34:18 -0500
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Ignatius of 'Wash Post' Previews George Tenet Book: It Will Make Your 'Hair Curl'

By E&P Staff

Published: April 15, 2007 11:10 PM ET
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Matthews himself must know something about the book, "At the Center of the Storm," because he said, before kicking it to the columnist, "Tenet takes on vice president Dick Cheney. Cheney has maintained that Tenet told President Bush in December of 2002, two weeks before Bush decided to invade Iraq, that there was a 'slam dunk' case to be made that Saddam Hussein possessed those banned weapons. But now Tenet denies ever making that claim. David, this is a big fight. It's pushback time. How tough is this book gonna be?"

Ignatius replied: "It's going be very tough. George Tenet has been doing a slow burn ever since he left the CIA. He's been angrier and angrier as he saw himself being essentially made the fall guy on WMD in Iraq. And he's gonna come back saying he and his agency, the CIA, were pushed, again and again, by Cheney and Cheney's people to give him the answers that they wanted. And he's got chapter and verse on that."

He added: "He will tell a story that I think will make people's hair curl. But he's been waiting a long time to tell this....And he'll also say---this is a very important part of this---that, on the question of what would happen in Iraq after the invasion, the CIA pretty consistently warned, 'You have trouble ahead. You will not be able to unite this country. Sunnis and Shiites are gonna be 'at daggers.'"

Apparently NBC's Andrea Mitchell knows something, too, because she kicked: "He'll also attack and criticize Condoleezza Rice, who has denied a critical briefing before 9/11...a July briefing. They actually have the slide show that they showed her, where they were telling her that al Qaeda was threatening....You're gonna be re-fighting both sides of who lost Iraq, who lost the WMD struggle. It might get pretty brutal."

[terisan]

1. Didn't Tenet give at least one speech where he acknowledged saying "slam-dunk" ? nt

I thought that perhaps he sold his soul to Bush/Cheney and got the Freedom Medal in return.

[MADem]

Well, the Corporation has to substitute for the Imus Book Club

Now they need a dozen commentators pushing the book. If the guy went on Imus, and Imus liked the book, it would be #1 on the NYT list in a day.

That said, if it has ANYTHING we can use vis a vis the "Slam Dunk" bullshit, it will sell well. We'll just have to see.

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Bring it on." - The American people

"We are sick of the stinking lies told by Commander AWOL & his corrupt republicon cronies. Tell the truth, you CIA spymiester, you."

- the American people, who hunger for truth after a 6-year avalanche of republicon lies

[tularetom]

3. I hope so but I've learned not to get too excited

when Tweety has an orgasm about something.

[Robbien]

4. Big deal. Far too little, far too late

This is not going to make even a small ripple in the outcome of what is to be.

Tenet's time to talk has passed.

[Ilsa]

6. Exactly. Bushco will call him a liar for the book and the intel.

He'll smell even worse and come out looking like Nixon five years after the resignation.

[bling bling]

22. Ditto. n/t

[Joe Fields]

5. It is of little comfort to me after the fact.

When they are in office, in power, when they have the real ability to affect change, to do what is right, but fail to act, then that makes them just as complicit. He should be one of the fall guys.

[jody]

7. "Hair Curl"! God made a few good heads and covered her mistakes with hair -- I'm not a mistake! n/t

[Poiuyt]

8. The Lord is just, the Lord is fair...

He gave some brains, the others hair

[jody]

9. Thanks, ROFLMAO !!! n/t

[badgerpup]

21. Hair doesn't grow only on the head you know...

:shrug:
just sayin'....


I will now go stand in the corner for that disgusting visual with which I have left y'all.
:spank: :evilgrin:

[jody]

23. You're right, for old people it grows in their ears and nose. Another ROFLMAO

:rofl:

[Gregorian]

10. Screwn by their own petards.

I wish I could feel happy about this stuff.

[in_cog_ni_to]

11. After all the damage has been done he speaks out? That's OUTRAGEOUS and borders on TREASONOUS! IF he

knew they were LYING, he had an obligation to the people of this country to say so! He had an obligation to STOP what they were doing. Now it's 'Cover your ass time."

I hope Tenet has some people to help him fight this battle because this will NOT go unanswered by the thugs in the WH.

[jobycom]

14. My thought, too. He cashes in on a book deal rather than testifying to Congress

or going to the media to report their lies? Some sense of duty. And his book will be less credible because he waited until he got a ton of cash before saying any of it.

[Fla Dem]

17. Exactly, Anyone knowing that the American people were being

lied to, and they were in a position to expose the lie, and elected not to so as to protect their own ass, and that lie led to the deaths and injury of thousands of our soldiers, then I agree, it is treason.

[peacetalksforall]

12. What is 'tough' to MSNBC employees is relative. I condemn Tenet.

It's going to take some pretty significant bravery before I will want to praise him.

Head of jackals.

Head of terrorists - like our recently untried and freed Posada Carilles.

Head of the School of America.

[librechik]

13. Great timing, George. If you had done your job instead of caving to Caligula

hundreds of thousands of folks would still be alive, you f***n douche.

[daleo]

15. He had plenty of time to tell the truth when it mattered

He ducked his responsibility, now hundreds of thousands are dead. He can join the Albert Speer Book of the Month Club. Eventually there will be dozens of Bush collaborators claiming they had nothing to do with it.

[calimary]

19. Bingo. There will be dozens of those, AND legions of other books

by pathetic mewling media people sobbing about how intimidated they were, how they were threatened, leaned on, coerced into going along with it all, afraid of this, afraid of that, worried about their mortgages and their hot-shit jobs and their precious fucking ACCESS. Oh, how utterly MISTREATED they were. FORCED to strap on those presidential kneepads. I didn't see ONE INKLING of coersion throughout.

I always enjoy recalling the story Michael Moore told during a speaking engagement several years ago here in L.A., in which he described an encounter with Katie Couric. He was a guest on the "Today" show, promoting "Fahrenheit 9/11" and something came up about media suppression. The segment ended and they cut to commercial. As they were taking off their microphones, Couric leaned over to him and said something like - "oh, you're SO RIGHT about media suppression," and told him how she herself was bullied - she told him somebody from the vice president's office called the NBC brass to complain about an interview she'd done with some White House person - in which the vp's office goon said the White House didn't like the tone of voice Couric used to conduct the interview. She said she then got a memo from "upstairs" - ordering her to COOL it. Michael Moore said he told her - "WHY don't you SAY SOMETHING about this??? WHY can't you write an op/ed piece about this or something? You're Katie Couric! You're one of three people in this country who can't be fired! Why don't you talk about this?" Her response? "Someday, I will."

Someday.

Yeah, sure, katie. Keep on fiddling while caligula burns the place down more thoroughly than Nero did.

They're ALL gonna get religion after the bushies are out of office and they think the coast is clear. Then you'll see the books about how horribly the media was used, manipulated, stomped on, thwarted, and fucked over. Boo-hoo-hoo. Probably the worst of the worst offenders will all come out with their oh-so-somber tomes about how patently unfair and horrible and near-criminal it was. How they were used, taken-in, made fools of, how they just WANTED SO BADLY to tell you the truth, to bust these assholes but oh, dearie me, they just couldn't! They couldn't! They were AFRAID. They had their mortgages and country club membership dues to pay, after all. And they had their big, fat, hot jobs to protect. So they didn't dare. ASSHOLES.

Let's see - who will it be who cries the crocodile tears? I have a few guesses:

katie couric
chris matthews
tim "buy my book" russert
judy miller
matt cooper
bob woodward
paula zahn
larry king
mark smith of the AP
brian williams
tom brokaw
charles gibson
walter pincus
dana milbank
norah o'donnell
judy woodruff
wolf blitzer
anderson cooper

You name 'em. Only Helen Thomas will have ANY credibility, assuming she decides to write one. Up til a few weeks ago, I'd have said david gregory but he seems to have strapped on his presidential kneepads since then.

But they WILL be coming out with these books. LONG after they might actually have done any good. WAY too late to make any difference. And I'm sure Oprah will recommend one or two... :eyes:

And there's another one. Oprah. I like many of the things she's done and tried to do, but she's SO uniquely positioned to do something about THIS, to influence HUGE numbers of voters about something as important as the salvation of what's left of our democracy and our Constitution. And she will not answer this call. She could almost singlehandedly heal our country. And she won't.

[jpak]

16. But..but...but...Didn't our Glorious GOP Intel Committees conclude "No Cheney Interference"

with pre-war Iraq Intel????

Say it ain't so....

[KelleyKramer]

18. Could the Dems in congress force him to testify under oath??

That could get really interesting.

[magellan]

20. And yet, he accepted the medal

Why don't these people do the right thing WHEN IT COUNTS rather than waiting to make a bundle on a tell-all book AFTER all the death and destruction?

Much as I believe the CIA was railroaded by Cheney and a few well-placed turncoats within its ranks, I have no patience or respect for people like Tenet who basically waved the train through. He can choke on his book for all I care. And I hope he's haunted to his last breath by the disaster he helped put in motion.