August 21, 2007 2:22 PM
Brian Ross Reports:
Former CIA director George Tenet “bears ultimate responsibility” for failing to create a strategic plan to stop al Qaeda prior to 9/ll, according to a review by the CIA’s inspector general that was made public today, more than two years after it was written.
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Overheard while George Bush awarded George […]
The Teddy Bears’ Picnic
If you go out in the woods today
You’ll be followed ‘n scrutinized
If you go out in the woods today
You’d better go in disguise.
For every spy on Common Cause
Will waterboard e’en Santa Claus, because
Today’s the day NGA has their picnic.
If you drive out to the woods today,
Your bumpers best not be […]
U.S. Intel Can’t Keep Up With New Technology
Newsweek
Aug. 6, 2007 issue - Six years after 9/11 , U.S. intel officials are complaining about the emergence of a major “gap” in their ability to secretly eavesdrop on suspected terrorist plotters.
In a series of increasingly anxious pleas to Congress, intel “czar” Mike McConnell has argued that the […]
Senate Begins Real Push on Habeas Corpus
Ari Melber
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee passed an important bill to restore habeas corpus, the sacrosanct Constitutional right to challenge government detention in court, by a vote of eleven to eight.
Habeas corpus was revoked by last year’s Military Commissions Act, which has been assailed as unconstitutional and un-American by […]
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President Bush, right, and George J. Tenet stop to pose on the CIA seal in the main entrance of agency headquarters Tuesday March 20, 2001 in Langley, Va.
Pablo Martinez Monsivais — AP
Reaping the Whirlwind
Sunday, May 6, 2007; BW03
AT THE CENTER OF THE STORM
My Years at the CIA
By George Tenet with Bill Harlow
HarperCollins. 549 pp. $30
In […]
SALON.com
George Tenet cashes in on Iraq
The former CIA chief is earning big money from corporations profiting off the war — a fact not mentioned in his combative new book or heard on his publicity blitz.
By Tim Shorrock
May. 07, 2007 | If you go by the book jacket of his new memoir, “At the Center of […]
Give the Medal Back George
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Overheard while George Bush awarded George Tenet the Medal of Freedom
posted on February 13, 2007
(Doug Mills for The New York Times)
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By Larry Johnson
(excerpts)
Like the Titanic the Bush Administration is foundering. The latest rat heading overboard is former CIA chief George Tenet, who abandons for good the Bush Administration’s Ship of Fools […]
Ex-C.I.A. Chief, in Book, Assails Cheney on Iraq
Eric Draper/The White House
George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, foreground, in March 2003. Mr. Tenet now says there was never a “serious debate” about the Iraq threat.
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By SCOTT SHANE and MARK MAZZETTI
Published: April 27, 2007
NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON, […]
White House Watch by Dan Froomkin
Cheney Sticks to His Delusions
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Friday, April 6, 2007; 1:20 PM
Faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, even President Bush has backed off his earlier inflammatory assertions about links between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.
Please find the piece here.
A Horribly Familiar Cycle
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, March 1, 2007; 12:10 PM
So let me make sure I’ve got this straight: Top Bush administration officials driven by long-standing resentments used bad intelligence to achieve their foreign policy objectives, which then ended up backfiring spectacularly? And we’re not talking about Iraq?
No, we’re talking about that other […]