George Tenet
Obama's Controversial CIA Pick Is the Best Man for the Job
John Brennan is the best nominee to run the Central Intelligence Agency in a generation--alas. The best of a bad lot. READ MORE >>
The dispatch is from Reuters. And the dateline is Wonderland. Flush with success in turning Iran away from nukes and Syria away from Tehran, the administration seems to be setting its sights on turning Hezbollah away from Hezbollah. READ MORE >>
The Battle for Tora Bora
President Obama designated George Mitchell his special envoy to the Jews and the Arabs because he had experience with them. Of course, Mitchell's familiarity with the Middle East was the familiarity of utter failure. No matter. Obama couldn't have sent George Tenet again ... or, God forbid, Anthony Zinni. And he wouldn't dispatch Dennis Ross, who knows far too much that wouldn't have fit with the president's own delusions. READ MORE >>
The Mirage That Is The Holy Land
You've all read about the CIA report which faults George Tenet for leaving the country unprepared for 9/11. I'm a little skeptical of "blame one person" analyses of such enormous disasters. But certainly neither Bill Clinton nor George Bush left Tenet alone to do the really important intelligence and defense-intelligence work that we knew since at least 1996 (and even earlier) had to be done with regard to Islamic terrorism. READ MORE >>
The Gonzales Of Intelligence
George Tenet: "the Alberto Gonzales of the intelligence community--a grotesque mixture of incompetence and sychophancy shielded by a genial personality." Here's the story. READ MORE >>
Tenet Explains
According to Jonathan Schwarz, George Tenet's book has something to say about the Downing Street Memos on Iraq, which quoted a British spy chief as saying that "intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." It turns out the official was misquoted. READ MORE >>
A Slam Dunk Of A Mistake
Apparently George Tenet's book, At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA, is going to say that George Bush's misuse of Tenet's "slam dunk" phrase on Iraq ruined his reputation and ended his career. Tenet will give his whiny narrative to CBS' "Sixty Minutes" this coming Sunday, according to a report in today's Drudge Report. READ MORE >>
GOPtopia
Surry Hill. So reads a plaque at the end of the long, winding private road that leads to the crown jewel of McLean, Virginia: the 18,000-square-foot mansion that Republican lobbyist Ed Rogers and his wife Edwina call home. To get there from Washington, you drive across the Potomac River and along a parkway that, in the summer, is canopied by lush green trees. Shortly before the guarded entrance to the CIA, you turn off McLean's main road and then down a private lane, passing through brick gate posts adorned with black lanterns and into a grand cul-de-sac. A massive brick Colonial with majes READ MORE >>
