Well, I guess THAT proves Tenet is making EVERYTHING up.
And even mentioning Richard Perle is proof positive that he is a virulent antisemite. |
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Well, I guess THAT proves Tenet is making EVERYTHING up. Other than you, no one is contending he did or it does. The point of the post is to note his work is going to be very closely scrutinized and factual problems such as this are going to be emphasized. Obviously those he’s trying to discredit will fight back and attempt to discredit him.
Not a particular surprise and not indicative of anything more than that.
Well, except to you:And even mentioning Richard Perle is proof positive that he is a virulent antisemite. Of course it does ... yeesh.
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The publication of this book is Duke lacrosse all over again. Stupid liberals are so primed that whatever supports the LN in this book will become instant gospel (can anyone say Joe Wilson?) and truth does not really matter. Stupid liberals believe that there is only one truth and that is the LN and anything that is not consistent with that (such as the cited inconsistency) is rightwingnoisemachine.
They will not, of course, take the time and effort to actually read the book. Instead, they will wait for the NYT to tell them what they think about it. So, for them, it doesn’t matter what the book actually says or what is rebutted by critics. If it is consistent with the LN, they will instantly adopt whatever the NYT tells them it says.
Idiots.
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So another discredited governmental official has written a book proving he was right and everybody else wrong. They all do it.“For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself “ Winston Churchill. Get your version of history out before your opponents can write it. Tenet is just following the Churchillian model. Just don’t expect insight into the problems at the CIA, that’s not the purpose of memoirs. They are designed to make the writer seem sagacious while all those around him were as dense as lead. |
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It’s like Mcnamaca and Carter all over again...
And Churchill wasn’t being all that serious.
I think that fact has escaped Mr Tenet... |
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Here’s the problem: Richard Perle was in France on that day, unable to fly back after September 11. In fact Perle did not return to the United State until September 15. Did Tenet perhaps merely get the date of this encounter wrong? Well, the quote Tenet ascribes to Perle hinges on the encounter taking place September 12: "Iraq has to pay a price for what happened yesterday Lets see, the CIA has long been a fiasco. The list of important events they have missed/screwed up on is quite long, including the Iraq intelligence failure.
Based on that, why does anyone take what this guy has to say seriously? |
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Because it either plays the Liberal Narrative Tune - In which case it will be shouted to the heavens by the left.
Or it doesn’t play the Liberal Narrative Tune - in which case it will die an inglorious and quiet death. |
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1. George Tenet, in At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA, at 278-279 (April 30, 2007)
"Another key Al-Qa’ida connection to biological weapons was Yazid Sufaat, the Jemaah Islamiya associate who hosted the first operational meeting of the 9/11 hijackers at his apartment in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in January 2000. In fact, Sufaat had provided commercial cover for Zacarias Moussaoui’s trip to the United States. Sufaat was also the self-described "CEO" of al-Qai’da’s anthrax program. U.S. educated and with a Malaysian military background, Sufaat had impeccable extremist credentials. In 2000 he had been introduced to Ayman al-Zawahiri personally, by Hambali, as the man who was capable of leading al-Qai’da’s biological weapons program.
Al-Qa’ida spared no effort in its attempt to obtain biological weapons. In 1999, al-Zawahiri had recruited another scientist, Pakistani national Rauf Ahmad, to set up a small lab in Khandahar, Afghanistan, to house the biological weapons effort. In December 2001, a sharp WMD analyst at CIA found the initial lead on which we would pull and, ultimately, unravel the al-Qa’ida anthrax networks. We were able to identify Rauf Ahmad from letters he had written to Ayman al-Zawahiri. Later, we uncovered Sufaat’s central role in the program. We located Rauf Ahmad’s lab in Afghanistan. We identified the building in Khandahar where Sufaat claimed he isolated anthrax. We mounted operations that resulted in the arrests and detentions of anthrax operatives in several countries.
The most startling revelation from this intelligence success story was that the anthrax program had been developed in parallel to 9/11 planning. As best as we could determine, al-Zawahiri’s project had been wrapped up in the summer of 2001, when the al-Qaida deputy, along with Hambali, were briefed over a week by Sufaat on the progress he had made to isolate anthrax. The entire operation had been managed at the top of al-Qai’da with strict compartmentalization. Having completed this phase of his work, Sufaat fled Afghanistan in December 2001 and was captured by authorities trying to sneak back into Malaysia. Rauf Ahmad was detained by Pakistani authorities in December 2001. Our hope was that these and our many other actions had neutralized the anthrax threat, at least temporarily."
2. George Tenet, in At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA, at 278-279 (April 30, 2007)
"Over time, we were able to link the top echelon of al-Qa’da’s leadership to the group’s highly compartmentalilzed chemical, biological, and nuclear networks. This group included al-Qa’ida’s operational chief Sayf al-Adl; the group’s logistics chief, Hafs; Jemaah Islamiya chief Ruidin Isomuddin (Hambali); 9/11 planners Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Rambzi bin al-Shibh; Egyptian CBRN expert Abu Khabab al-Masri; self-described "CEO of anthrax," Yazid Sufaat; and explosives expert and "nuclear CEO," Abdel al-Aziz al-Masri.
As we researched the information we were slowly gathering from myriad sources, we unlocked a disturbing secret: the group’s interest in WMD was not new. They had been searching for these weapons long before we had been looking for them. As far we know, al-Qa-ida’s fascination with chemical weapons goes back to the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in March 1995 by a group of religious fanatics called the Aum Shinrikyo. Twelve people died in that attack, but had the dispersal devices worked as planned, the death toll would have been higher. Al-Qai’da leaders were impressed and saw the attack as a model for achieving their own ambitions. (In retrospect, the Tokyo attack also foreshadowed al-Qa’ida’s interest in subway and railway systems, which later manifested itself in attacks in Madrid on March 11, 2004; in London on July 7, 2005; an a planned attack against the New York City subway in fall 2003 that was called off by Ayman al-Zawahiri in the last stages of preparation — "for something better.")
George Tenet, At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA, at 260-261. |
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