Do you trust George Tenant?

[Blue_Roses]

I watch him and he's such a "good ol' boy" looking kind of guy, but damn, his world is falling in and he doesn't seem to know which way to paddle.

Watching him this week, I found myself oddly "mesmorized" by his candor and constant "twitching."

[freetobegay]

1. No, no and no!

Is my answer clear enough?

[Mick Knox]

2. Yes, I would let him baby sit my daughter

NOT

[Career Prole]

3. I distrust anyone with a pendulous, quivering bottom lip.

It's an Alfred Hitchcock thing...old dude always gave me the heebie-jeebies. When the pendulous lip quivers in front of a lying mouth wired to an evil mind it's absolutely nightmarish.

[knight_of_the_star]

4. No

But by the same token I somehow doubt that BushCo really trsust him or the CIA anymore, especially after all the bs they've pulled on them.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. Tenet knows exactly what's going on...he's an intel heavy-hitter...

...with almost thirty years in the business.

Just curious, but who do you think gave permission to the former CIA officers to go public in their condemnation of the NeoCons for exposing Valerie Plame? Who do you think is responsible for the almost constant leaks about the NeoCons and the way they've conducted their business?

Here's a resume on Tenet:
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It should become readily apparent even at first glance that Tenet has been in the intelligence game for quite some time. Even his education screams out "intelligence" and "foreign service". Note also that the individual with whom he was meeting on the morning of 911 was former Senator David Boren, D-OK...check out Boren's job as Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Tenet's job title as well. Even Tenet's first two jobs after leaving college indicate positions that would have provided him the cover necessary to do his job as part of the intelligence community.

Bottom-line: Tenet is a long-time player in the intelligence community and knows where the bodies are buried and how to get hat information released to the public if something happens to him. IMHO, Junior pissed off the wrong guy.
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RESUME:
George Tenet
Director, Central Intelligence
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EXPERIENCE:
1995-Present
Central Intelligence Agency

Director, July 1997 - Present

George John Tenet was sworn in as Director of Central Intelligence on 11 July 1997 following a unanimous vote by both the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the full Senate. In this position he heads the Intelligence Community (all foreign intelligence agencies of the United States) and directs the Central Intelligence Agency. In January 2001, Tenet was asked by Bush to stay on indefinitely as Director, Central Intelligence.

Acting Director, December 1996 - July 1997

Following the departure of John Deutch in December 1996, he served as Acting Director.

Deputy Director Central Intelligence, July 1995 - December 1996

Served as the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, having been confirmed in that position in July 1995.

1993 - 1995
National Security Council
-Senior Director for Intelligence Programs
-Special Assistant to the President

Mr. Tenet previously served as Special Assistant to the President (Clinton) and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council. While at the NSC, he coordinated Presidential Decision Directives on "Intelligence Priorities," "Security Policy Coordination," "US Counterintelligence Effectiveness," and "US Policy on Remote Sensing Space Capabilities." He also was responsible for coordinating all interagency activities concerning covert action.

1992-1993
Presidential National Security Transition Team

Prior to serving at the National Security Council, he served on President Clinton's national security transition team. In this capacity, he coordinated the evaluation of the US Intelligence Community.

1987-1992
Office of Sen. David Boren, D-OK
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
-Staff Director

Mr. Tenet also served as Staff Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for over four years under the chairmanship of Senator David Boren. In this capacity he was responsible for coordinating all of the Committee's oversight and legislative activities including the strengthening of covert action reporting requirements, the creation of a statutory Inspector General at CIA, and the introduction of comprehensive legislation to reorganize US intelligence.

1985-1987
Office of Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
-Staff Director
-Staff Member

Three years later, he joined the Senate Select Committee under Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., helping direct the committee's oversight of arms control negotiations between the United States and Soviet Union. He ultimately assumed the role of staff director of the committee. Prior to his appointment as Staff Director, Mr. Tenet directed the Committee's oversight of all arms control negotiations between the Soviet Union and the United States, culminating in the preparation of a report to the US Senate on ``The Ability of US Intelligence to Monitor the Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty."

1982-1985
Office of Sen. John Heinz, R-PA
-Legislative Assistant

Served as a legislative assistant to Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., dealing with defense, energy and foreign affairs issues. as both a legislative assistant covering national security and energy issues and as legislative director.

Solar Industries Association
-Research Director

American Hellenic Institute, Washington, DC
-Research Director
<http://www.ahiworld.com/history.pdf>

EDUCATION:
1979 - Masters in International Affairs
Columbia University, New York, NY

1977 - BS Foreign Service
Georgetown University, Washington, DC

PRE-COLLEGE BACKGROUND:
His father and mother emigrated from Greece and operated a delicatessen in a middle-class Flushing, Queens, neighborhood, where Tenet worked while growing up. George and his twin brother Bill, now a cardiologist in New York, graduated in 1973 from public school at Benjamin N. Cardozo High School. They attended religious classes and served as altar boys at a Greek Orthodox Church. Born in New York in 1955, George Tenet is 50 years old as of October 2003. He is married to A. Stephanie Glakas-Tenet, and they have one son, John Michael.

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NOTES:

Senator David Boren Biography:
<http://davidboren.org />
Yale grad and Bonesman. Rhodes Scholar.
"Another interesting Bonesman is David Lyle Boren, the Senate Democrat from Oklahoma. While he is not an employee of the CIA (some say this is open to question), Boren nevertheless is part of the intelligence community because he is the chair of the Select Committee on Intelligence."

Senator Patrick Leahy Biography:
<http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=S0890103>

Senator John Heinz Biography:
<http://zeeb.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/Heinz/HJH_Bio.html#death>

REFERENCES:
George Tenet, Director of the CIA
<http://media.abcnews.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/bush_advisors_tenet.html>

CIA FACELIFT, March 19, 1997
<http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/fedagencies/march97/cia_3-19.html>

Remarks by Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet on the
"Worldwide Threat 2001: National Security in a Changing World"
<http://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs/speeches/2001/UNCLASWWT_02072001.html>

[FDRrocks]

6. I think he's incompetent

On the level of Bush. I think he has failed the country, and I do not believe many words out of that mans mouth.

[Old and In the Way]

7. Actually, yes. But he's not coming clean with what he knows.

Something is going on behind the scenes I think. He may well be compromised, maybe blackmailed by the Bushistas. But, if so, he's equally got the goods on them.

It is totally non-sensical why Bush did not shitcan Tenet after 9/11. He was a Clinton appointee, afterall. Who better to blame? But he didn't. Same with the supposed bad intel that got us into Iraq. Should have been dumped, but wasn't.

Why? Is George blackmailing George?

[Blue_Roses]

9. I think you may be right

and ...

I agree, will the REAL George please stand up!
Something is definitely NOT right here with these two.

[hang a left]

10. You know I don't know if it is blackmail.

It appears that Bush may be being set up. Not that it couldn't happen to a nicer *guy.

[DemoTex]

8. No

.

[Minstrel Boy]

11. How can we trust anyone at the top of such a food chain?

At the best of times I would take the words of a CIA director with grains and grains of salt. And these aren't the best of times.

[Blue_Roses]

12. What's weird about this

is for some reason, I just don't see him as head of the CIA.

[TimMooring]

13. No way

He gave President Clinton nothing but a hard time.
One of the first actions of President Kerry: Dump Tenant
Right after dumping Greenspan