Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell, Tenet, Wofowitz, Gonzalez and others, all represent the ‘tail of the snake,’ to use an Arabic linguistic metaphor. The ‘head of the snake’ is George Bush, the so-called Commander-in Chief. Unless Americans collectively go after this ‘snake head’ we will be all beating around the bush, and we will all continue to have blood on our hands.

To add insult to injury, Tenet was rewarded by 4-million dollars book contract to tell us his shameful part in this national and international bloody scandal. Wolfowitz was rewarded with the presidency of the World Bank, where he continues to make shameful scandals. But the Liar-in-Chief continues to sit in the ‘blackened’ White House, defying and disgracing America and democracy.

Re comment #68918 by Elizabeth Lockyear.  Since you bring it up, here is how dubya got rich.

1984 Arbusto was a bust.  No problem when your Dad’s the VP of the U.S. Dad’s wealthy friends hand W 1.1 million shares in Spectrum 7 stock + a $75,000 annual salary.

1986 Spectrum 7 is $3 million in debt.  Daddy’s BCCI/intelligence community friends purchase Spectrum 7, handing the “fortunate son” $600,000 in Harken Energy stock, a seat on the Harken board, a consulting contract worth $80,000 to $120,000/yr.

June 22, 1990, one week prior to Harken posting a $23.2 million end of quarter loss and resultant drop in Harken stock to $2.37/share, W, who sat on the Board’s audit committee, unloads 60% of his Harken stock at $4.12/share ($848,560).

While W never desplayed any particular acumen at creating and managing a business, as the son of a sitting U.S. President, he did display a knack for assembling wealthy investors, including billionaire Richard Rainwater, to acquire the Texas Rangers.  For an initial investment of $606,000, including a $500,000 bank loan paid for by the sale of Harken stock, W received a 1.8% share of the team and the position of managing general partner at $200,000/year.  His share would swell to 11.8% as a “sweat equity” for his stellar efforts in assembling the investors.

W then persuaded Arlington Mayor Richard Green to submit a referendum for a 1/2 cent sales tax that would provide a $165 million subsidy for construction of a new stadium, threatening to take the Rangers to Dallas if the good folks in Arlington didn’t fork over the dough.  He then used political connections in the Texas legislature to create a development agency with the power of eminent domain, which then condemned the property needed for the stadium, and when he became governor, he signed into law a sports facility financing bill which permitted Texas cities to levy taxes for stadium construction.

In 1998, media mogul Tom Hicks purchased the franchise for $250 million—the team, the stadium and the adjacent 300 acres which included the Six Flags amusement park.  Gov. Geo. Bush walked off with $14.8 million, $2.7 million on his initial 1.8% ownership and $12.2 million for his “sweat equity.”

Tenet’s role in and knowledge of events and activities leading up to the invasion and occupation of Iraq certainly should be explored.

Like Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle and many others, Tenet seems to have been close to an “inner circle.”

His new book may further open the can of worms about what has been going on in the last few years. More on this in:

“‘Mistakes’ or ‘plans’ in 9/11, Iraq invasion and occupation, War on Terror?” (American Chronicle)

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=11401

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“‘Intelligence failures’ prior to 9/11, Iraq war: Planned strategies?” (American Chronicle)

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=3367

Let’s see ... my Australian Oxford dictionary says a ‘tenet’ is a principle of a person or school.

Guess they’ll have to add a “2. unprincipled scoundrel” or some such.

OTOH, all this news has saved me money. Now I won’t need to buy his tome. I only wish I had not wasted Au$50 on Woodward’s 3rd apologia. Lo, how the might have fallen.

George Tenet is a criminalistic opportunist. He was aware of his deceitfulness during his tenure within the Bush regime, and he remains deceitful in his “book of lies”. Just like the rest of the Bushies, anything for a buck. When Americans finally wake up and prosecute these war criminals,  George Tenet should be right in line with Bush, Cheney, Rice, Wolfowitz, Gonzales, Powell, and Cristall of The National Review.

The reality here is that all those in power who promoted or simply allowed all this to happen share in the responsibility.  Some are have a greater weight, but all must be held accountable.  Tenet is no angel as head of the CIA.

The CIA - along with the pentagon - create a culture of aggression in American foreign policy.  We spend countless billions and billions every single year to maintain the greatest national OF-fense in the history of the world.

It’s time that we change that - we need a national DE-fense instead of a national OF-fense.  When that happens, criminals like tenet, cheney, bush and the rest won’t have the tools to wage war and commit many of their crimes…

Some reading on this:

“National Defense vs. National Offense”
http://www.populistamerica.com/national_defense_vs__national_offense

He’s shameless so never mention “shame” to him. This guy only knows spitting out then sucking back immediately when seeing interests !

George Tenet is a co-conspirator in the Bush administration’s concoction of a war of aggression—a crime under the principles of the Nuremberg tribunal.  His semi-mea culpas do not absolve his culpability.