George Tenet has the potential to be the John Dean of this administration

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

Continue walking to the lightside George! Sometimes it takes a little time for reality to set in and distance can provide clarity. George Tenet really, really hates the Bushies and Cheney trying to hang the Iraq war around his neck and he is pushing back hard!

[RufusTFirefly]

1. It's not noble. It's an ego thing.

But we'll take what we can get.

[ClassWarrior]

2. Any port in a typhoon.

NGU.

[calimary]

22. No kidding.

I won't look a gift horse's ass in the mouth, that's for sure. Even if he arrives with fleas and ticks, having just rolled through a field full of turdblossoms. Hose him down, clean him up, and ride him all the way to vindication!

WHATEVER works.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

3. Yes, but let's not look in the mouth of the gift horse, especially when he Mr Eds on Cheney. nt

[Golden Raisin]

4. The other thing hanging around Tenet's neck

is the Presidential Medal of Freedom which he accepted directly from the hands of the Emperor. John Dean went to jail. Still, we have to play with the cards dealt to us. If Tenet or anyone else can help bring down this regime, then fine.

[pocoloco]

7. Why and when did John Dean go to Jail?

I don't remember that but then again maybe I need to eat more fish.

[RufusTFirefly]

8. John Dean's sentence

Dean pled guilty to obstruction of justice before Watergate trial judge John Sirica on November 30, 1973. He admitted supervising payments of "hush money" to the Watergate burglars, notably E. Howard Hunt, and revealed the existence of Nixon's enemies list. On August 2, 1974, Sirica handed down a sentence of one to four years in a minimum-security prison. However, when Dean surrendered himself as scheduled on September 3, he was diverted to the custody of U.S. Marshals and kept instead at Fort Holabird (near Baltimore, Maryland) in a special "safe house" holding facility primarily used for witnesses against the Mafia. He spent his days in the offices of the Watergate Special Prosecutor and testifying in the trial of Watergate conspirators Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Robert Mardian, and Kenneth Parkinson, which concluded on January 1, 1975. Dean's lawyer moved to have his sentence reduced, and on January 8, Sirica granted the motion, adjusting Dean's sentence to time served.
Wikipedia

[pocoloco]

17. Thanks for your trouble, been a long time!!!!

[Lord Balto]

15. The Again

"Still, we have to play with the cards dealt to us"

Maybe it's time to burn the deck and get a new one. And a new dealer too. I'm available.

[calimary]

23. Welcome to DU!

You go to IMPEACHMENT proceedings with the asshole you have. Not the asshole you want or wish to have.

[trumad]

5. He's pimping a book...

Dean wasn't when he turned on Nixon.

If Tenet was all that, he would have resigned in protest back in 2002-2003. He's nothing more than a coward.

[youngdem]

6. Bullshit. Tenet has blood on his hands. He's just selling a book

Remember, all this shit gets vetted at the CIA before being released, so you can be sure nothing the WH doesn't want you to know is in there. All of these pricks write revisionist history books wrapped in a partisan payoff 'book advance' that suit their own agendas.

Also, remember this prick was at the CIA when the ISI assisted the CIA in obtaining the letterhead and forged the documents that constituted the Niger Yellowcake Forgeries, that in large part allowed the White House to assert that there were nuclear ambitions on the part of Saddam, and that we couldn't wait for a warning 'in the form of a mushroom cloud'. So, in this way, if Tenet had spoken up instead of participating in the forgeries, he could have prevented this illegal war. Instead, he took part in it because he thought it would turn out well and that history wouldn't know or care about the fraud. Instead, it all blew up in their faces, and he is scurrying for a cover story and a paycheck.

This prick was involved in cherry picking some of the intelligence and MANUFACTURING of other. He saw this before the war, yet didn't speak out then? Why? No Medal of Freedom around his neck and no fluffed up book deal as a payoff in hand.

This guy deserves to rot in hell for causing the deaths of thousands. In a just world, he would be sitting beside Bush, Cheney and the rest of the Cabal at the new Nuremberg trials.

[Cosmocat]

27. YEP ...

He was part of it, a spineless piece of garbage who went along with the runnup ...

He had two choices, resign and blow the lid on it or go along ... He went along, EXCEPTED THE FREAKIN MEDEL OF HONOR or whatever BS it was, now two year later is burnt out caues Bushco has used him to deflect its blame ... All I have heard from him is how unfair it is that the last two years they have blamed it on him ...

Jaggoff ...

[OHdem10]

9. Whew---Kill the messenger and ignore the book

No matter how you feel about Tenet. He Legally had to
have that book read, vetted, approved by the CIA before
it could be published.

Are you falling into Republican trap??? Kill Tenet
so they will not believe the book.

A lot of people have blood on their hands. Let all
stick our heads in the sand and be purist never
winning a thing.

Lots of people say this is big.

[youngdem]

10. His book says nothing new.

Tenet is out on a campaign of Cover My Ass for Profit.

Fuck him.

If he has anything interesting or new to say, we will all hear about it. But I am not going to let this piece of shit try to create daylight between the CIA, himself and the White House's march to war. THERE ISN'T ANY. Tenet helped the WH FORGE evidence to create a case for war. What light could he possibly really shed without incriminating himself?

Please.

[OHdem10]

11. That is strange--On Charley Rose, I heard

lots of stuff regarding this book.

I suppose it is really whether you with to fall into
the Republican Distraction game. Destroy Tennet
before he appeaars on 60 minutes for an indepth Interview
on Sunday.

No one has read the book. The reporters got it late
yesterday.

[ShortnFiery]

14. You got that right!

Pay special attention to the video cut where Tenet is "close to" grilled on his support of TORTURE. Tenet became haughty and proclaimed, "We do NOT torture." However, he would not respond to the repeated requests to address the "Water-boarding is OK" contention.

Like Jack Cafferty quipped the other day on CNN ... words to the effect: "Why don't we consider water-boarding Tenet since it isn't torture?" ;) :shrug:

I despise Tenet and Powell more than the true kool aid drinking Neo-Cons because *they knew better* and had no ideological delusions of what a hell-hole Iraq would turn into if invaded and occupied. :grr:

[Grandrose]

12. No Way!!

Supposedly Tenet is still kissing up Bush! Unless and until he comes clean about the whole cabal...he's no Dean. :eyes:

[ShortnFiery]

13. No, I don't think so. He had his chance and now he's in damage control.

George Tenet and Colin Powell should go down with the others within this criminal Unitary Executive Branch. They were BOTH in the POSITION to stop this illegal invasion and occupation but remained silent. Their careers were more important than their oath to The Constitution.

IMO, Damn Tenet with the rest of the traitors. :grr:

[Disturbed]

16. Tenet gets his blood money.

He gets $50K per speech and got $4 Million in advance for this book. Nothing will change due to this book except his bank account. The CIA is now headed by a General who used to work for the NSA, Busholini loyalist. Does anyone think that the CIA would have allowed this book to be published if the info in it could bring down Busholini and Darth?

[Lugnut]

18. Too little way too late

I would have respected him for stepping up four years ago. He didn't and I don't.

[msanthrope]

19. Why insult John Dean so? n/t

[Tatiana]

20. He's a coward and has been one through the last three administrations.

He isn't a man of integrity. He's an opportunist and a panderer.

I don't see that changing anytime soon.

[JerseygirlCT]

21. I think this has more to do with book deal and ego than with

conscience.

I'm glad for him to attack Cheney, et al. But a good guy, he's not.

Where was the integrity as he watched us march to war on lies?

Or afterwards? Really, it's been years. Anyone with any character would have spoken out long ago.

Now, he's being paid to do so, and hell, his reputation with the Bushies is ruined beyond repair anyway. So what's to lose?

[Honeycombe8]

24. It's too late for Tenet. It's been years...and thousands have died....

Dean fessed up early on, did a mea culpa, seemed truly sincere in his regrets at having gone down the criminal pathway.

That's not at all what Tenet is doing. And it is years too late, while he sat at home watching TV, saying nothing....until now that he sees that history has begun to judge the Iraq War as the biggest catastrophe to hit our country. If the IW were going well, and the country was all gung ho about it....his book would be very different.

What a scuzzball.

[Honeycombe8]

25. It's too late for Tenet. It's been years...and thousands have died....

Dean fessed up early on, did a mea culpa, seemed truly sincere in his regrets at having gone down the criminal pathway.

That's not at all what Tenet is doing. And it is years too late, while he sat at home watching TV, saying nothing....until now that he sees that history has begun to judge the Iraq War as the biggest catastrophe to hit our country. If the IW were going well, and the country was all gung ho about it....his book would be very different.

What a scuzzball.

[illinoisprogressive]

26. I tought about that. The one who is the one to bring down the house of straw