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Edited on Mon Dec-04-06 05:32 PM by Ignacio Upton
I'm reading The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind (a VERY interesting book that discloses a lot of stuff that people outside of a site like this wouldn't know) and there is a section explaining how Libby and Hadley kept resubmitting debunked bullshit on a Saddam-Al Qaida connection, and one of Tenet's staffers was crying and going into a conniption about how she was being told over and over to look into stuff that was already looked into. On page 191, Tenet said:
"She is not coming over," he shouted into the phone. "We are not rewriting this fucking report one more time. It is fucking over. Do you hear me! And don't you ever fucking treat my people this way again/ Ever!'
Suskind also says that Tenet may not have actually said "slam dunk" to describe the situation with WMD's and Saddam. CIA number two, John McLaughlin also couldn't remember Tenet saying it, or flailing his arms around as described by Bob Woodward in his book "Plan of Attack." And the meeting, according to Tenet and McLaughlin, was a "marketing meeting," dealing with presenting the intelligence in a general way, not about the actual research.
....While I can't forgive Tenet for helping to orchestrate the torture tactics, I don't see him as being as incompetent as he has been portrayed before. I don't think he was in on the Neo Cons and he was just doing his job (which doesn't excuse him entirely, but I don't think someone who was appointed and relied upon by President Clinton would collaborate knowingly with the Neo Cons.)
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