MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
While it was hardly gloom and doom today at 55th & Fifth, I overheard more than a few captains of industry and media mavens muttering about the market... Lunch: Karenna Gore Schiff, George Tenet & Politics As Usual (FBNY) New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media
A Tiny Revolution (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
My ebuddy Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio recently debated right-wing "terrorism" "expert" Harvey Kushner at Texas A&M. According to Kusher, the invasion of Iraq was "an experiment." I've spoken to Scott on Antiwar Radio twice: once about George Tenet and once about William Kristol . —Jonathan Schwarz
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
There will be more than a few surprised people tonight, both in the media and outside it, at the verdict reached by the jury in the “liquid explosives” trial. The case, after all, had been presented, as George Tenet famously said, as a “slam-dunk”. Here were 8 Muslim extremists, caught red-handed with quantities [...]
Obsolete (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
There will be more than a few surprised people tonight , both in the media and outside it, at the verdict reached by the jury in the "liquid explosives" trial. The case, after all, had been presented, as George Tenet famously said, as a "slam-dunk". Here were 8 Muslim extremists, caught red-handed with quantities of hydrogen peroxide, used by both the 7/7 and 21/7 bombers in their attacks, having recorded...
Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
The CIA issues an official denial of the allegations in Ron Suskind's new book that the White House ordered then-Director George Tenet to forge documents intended to link al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein: "To assert, as Suskind does, that the...
democrats.com (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
According to former CIA head George Tenet , "There were many Iraqi officials who said both publicly and privately that Iraq had no WMD." Tenet's statement is accurate. Moreover, there were high level CIA officials who believed Iraq possessed no WMD. In addition, foreign governments stated there was no hard evidence Iraq had WMD, as did the heads of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and...
Asia Times (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Saddam Hussein's intelligence czar was a secret agent for Britain's MI6 and he told Western powers that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. This information was discarded by then-Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet because it conflicted with Washington's case for war, a new book claims. - Gareth Porter (Aug 14, '08)
My left wing (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
On Hardball today, Mike Barnicle just made a fairly explosive statement. They were talking about Ron Suskind's new book The Way of the World , in which Suskind alleges via interviews with multiple colleagues and subordinates of George Tenet the explosive charge that the Bush Administration gave the CIA an actual paper ordering them to forge a document drawing connections between Al Qaeda and Iraq....
Majikthise (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Louis Bayard details Ron Suskind's claim that George Tenet ordered CIA officials Rob Richer and John Maguire to forge a letter from Iraqi security chief Habbush to Saddam Hussein. The letter was a fictional smoking gun tying Iraq to 9/11....
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
George Bush and George Tenet both deny the allegation leveled by Ron Suskind's new book, The Way of the World , that in late 2003 the White House ordered the CIA to forge and circulate a letter that would seem to justify the invasion of Iraq after the fact. Here is WH deputy press secretary Tony Fratto : "Ron Suskind makes a living from gutter journalism. He is about selling books and making wild...
Truthdig (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Ron Suskind’s new book alleges that the White House ordered the CIA to fabricate a link between Iraq and al-Qaida. The CIA director at the time, George Tenet, calls the claim “ridiculous.” Suskind says that’s just an example of “George’s memory issue.” READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries August 4, 2008 White House Fabricated Iraq Intelligence, Book Alleges August 4, 2008 A War of Self-Destruction August...
A Tiny Revolution (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Ron Suskind was on NPR this morning to discuss his new book The Way of the World , which alleges Iraq's intelligence chief Tahir Jalil Habbush told the US before the war that Iraq had no WMD. NPR asked George Tenet and the White House for comment, and, remarkably enough, they both essentially admitted this was true. SUSKIND: What we now know from this investigation is that a secret mission was conducted...
ACLU Bog of Rights (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
(Originally posted on DailyKos.) There’s a telling scene near the beginning of The Dark Side, Jane Mayer’s indispensable chronicle of the Bush Administration’s descent into torture and criminality. Shortly after the September 11 attacks, CIA Director George Tenet was advised that that CIA had followed two of the hijackers into the United States in 2000, and then dropped the trail — without alerting...
Kiko's House (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Second of 25 excerpts from The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer: After the attacks of September 11, 2001, it was hard to believe that the news could get any worse for George Tenet or the CIA, the agency he had lead since 1997. But when a team of analysts sorted through masses of cables and electronic communications in a conference...
Fore Left! (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Obama has announced his working group on national security (it's on his website, so it must be true). Let's take a gander: Madeleine Albright...biggest memory--clinking champagne glasses with Kim Jong and solving the mideast crisis. Wait. David Boren...a mentor to George Tenet.Warren Christopher...brought about mideast peace in our time. Wait. Greg Craig...lawyer who represented: Ted Kennedy
