The Harbinger

Former CIA Director George Tenet joined the chorus to assail the Halliburton Crips: Vice President Cheney, Former Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Secretary of State and former National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and yadda yadda yadda …

Director Tenet makes sure we know he was on the ball that it was everyone else that dropped it… right. Can I interest you in some beach front property in North Dakota… all you have to do is wait for full scale global warming and you be rich! I digress.

Are we supposed to look at Director Tenet’s comments and totally forget he was the F’ing director of the CIA?!? He claims he is just the fall guy for strapping on the latest Jordan’s and calling for the slam dunk.

I can understand why he oversaw some of the greatest failures in American intelligence now, because he doesn’t even know what a fall guy is. Someone should prepare a PDB for Director Tenet and let him know that a fall guy is traditionally a low level guy taking the heat so the top guys don’t get touched. Really, its an oxymoron to even say Director Fall Guy. He’s the top, who is falling for? President Bush? I’m sorry… not even close.

Director Tenet was in charge of intelligence. President Bush wasn’t in charge of intelligence Director Tenet was. It was Director Tenet’s job to obtain and vet intelligence.

It was Tenets job to know when America was in Able Danger.

Now, I’m not saying The Administration has no guilt; I’m just not limiting it to Dick Cheney and his crew. Director Tenet is possibly suffering from tunnel vision caused by his PR campaign to sell books. … and why shouldn’t he profit from his story of how he failed us. Sure, I want to read it, but isn’t it disingenuous for him to pan for gold in the river of 9-11 blood?

But hey, don’t take my word for it. Check out what some of the leaders under Director Tenet have to say about it in an open letter to Mr. Tenet: Open Letter to Tenet

I am very grateful we have people like Mr. Tenet in our government. We need smart capable people like him in those positions. On most things I think the CIA as run by Mr. Tenet was functional and did a good job for America.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is a fantastic example of the leadership Mr. Tenet brought. The ‘mastermind’ Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was dragged out of an enemy country named Pakistan in the middle of the night in his Spiderman III pajamas. That was a important success. 9-11 was an intelligence failure. We must call them failures. The pussification of the country dictates that we don’t point fingers and no one has any real responsibility. However, it’s important we say you sir failed us. We must lay responsibility at the feet of our leaders so we can learn true lessons instead of gain fodder for political mud slinging.

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