Tenet admits it was HIS mistake.

[NYC]

Ch. 7 ABC

This was presented as "breaking news", and will be covered starting at 6:30 p.m. EST with Peter Jennings.

[JanMichael]

1. Potted Plant leaps in front of train.

Nice job at Carlyle/New Enron/Bectal/Big Oil waiting for that fucking weasel.

Takes a few hits in the media, resigns, and rakes in the bucks.

[Tinoire]

lol. I love that expression!!! Good one n/t

[JanMichael]

22. Ray McGovern said it first when we interviewed him 3 weeks ago.

Said Tenent was compromised before he ever took the job and would do whatever was requested of him.

Par for the course.

[Lefty48197]

2. That bastard!

Misleadin' the President like that? He should be ashamed of himself.

[Jolene]

4. You mean the CIA warned England...

and didn't warn Bush?

Shame on them!

[Avalux]

3. FAUX news is reading Tenet's Statement

Tenet is taking full responsibility saying the president had every reason to believe the statement in his speech was sound.

[NYC]

5. If we demand that Tenet be tried for treason, will he defend himself?

?

[Pikku]

7. I'm confused

Didn't Dick Cheney send someone to Africa to investigate the claim? Didn't they tell him it was false?

[NYC]

11. Yes.

If I find that information, I'll post a link, but the answer is definitely YES.

[RainDog]

13. Ambassador Wilson

former ambassador to Gabon. he and ANOTHER ambassador BOTH informed the administration that the information was incorrect.

MY REPRESENTATIVE told a man whose son was in Turkey that Saddam DID NOT have the capacity to make nukes, and would not for A LONG TIME. (this was in Oct. at a town hall meeting.)

This is such a bullshit moment.

This had better NOT BE THE END OF THIS IN THE MEDIA. If they try to act like all questions are answered because of Tenet they are cheaper than two dollar crack whores.

[JasonBerry]

15. Link about Cheney - CNN

Last Tuesday - CNN:

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Fleischer's remarks follow assertions by an envoy sent by the CIA to Africa to investigate allegations about Iraq's nuclear weapons program. The envoy, Joseph Wilson, said Sunday the Bush administration manipulated his findings, possibly to strengthen the rationale for war.

Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador to the West African nation of Gabon, was dispatched in February 2002 to explore whether Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger.

Writing in a New York Times op-ed piece, Wilson said it did not take him long "to conclude that it was highly doubtful that any such transaction had ever taken place."

In an interview on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press," Wilson insisted his doubts about the purported Iraq-Niger connection reached the highest levels of government, including Vice President Dick Cheney's office.

In fact, he said, Cheney's office inquired about the purported Niger-Iraq link.

"The question was asked of the CIA by the office of the vice president. The office of the vice president, I am absolutely convinced, received a very specific response to the question it asked, and that response was based upon my trip out there," Wilson said.
-snip-
Full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/08/bush.iraq.ap/

- Jason

[Cocoa]

12. his name is Wilson

he's a real person, I know because I saw him on the teevee.

He said pretty much as soon as he got there he realized it was impossible for the story to be true. And he knows the info got back to Cheney's office, though there was no first-person account like that phony story said.

[Pikku]

18. Thanks for the links

I needed a little reminding. I think the media need a little reminding, too...

[SEAburb]

17. one huge shell game, keep your eye on the pea / nt

....

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

6. It's time to put some people under oath and ask these questions

typical that it whould break on a Friday afternoon..eh?

[JasonBerry]

20. NothingShocksMeAnyMore: You are SO RIGHT.

"It's time to put some people under oath and ask these questions."

You couldn't be more right!
This is the next step.

[Rose Siding]

8. CBS better name the "admin sources" or retract

They quoted unnamed sources- without the names, you know this had to happen

[JasonBerry]

9. Someone just asked me.....

"Wonder what they paid him?"

I said:

"Wonder how many family members they promised to spare?"

I put NOTHING past the Bush Crime Family.

[RichM]

10. Gee, what a surprise.

I wonder what they had to offer him, to make him see the error of his ways.

[NYC]

14. Martha Radison in Washington made it CLEAR that the NSC

said to the CIA that despite doubts, wasn't the wording of uranium in British report accurate wording? In other words, it sounds like NSC fault.

[NYC]

16. Stephanopoulis said Tenet's resignation will essentially end

the matter. (I hope not.)

[blkgrl]

19. Maybe someone else with integrity will step forward

Maybe another CIA agent will step forward and not let Tenet take the full blame for this.

[nini]

21. But WHY did they continue this lie to justify the war months later?

?

[SEAburb]

23. the good soldier falls on his sword

Tenet's loyalty to the Bush family and the GOP prevents him from doing the right thing, tell the truth.

[htuttle]

24. Why would he resign? He's not talking about resigning.

Remember, this is the guy who's agency already took the fall for 9/11 happening -- remember, "we didn't know what was happening", "no warning", etc... while intelligence agencies all around the world were cabling urgent messages about what was about to happen?

If he could take that sort of charge of incompetence, and still keep his job, why would this one finally bring him down?

I'll believe he's resigning when I actually hear it.
Incompetence is irrelevant to the Bushes. Loyalty is what is rewarded.

[NYC]

25. Tenet quote re the "tapdancing" sentence:

"Officials who were reviewing the draft remarks on uranium raised several concerns about the fragmentary nature of the intelligence with National Security Council colleagues," Tenet said. "Some of the language was changed. From what we know now, agency officials in the end concurred that the text in the speech was factually correct that the British government report said that Iraq sought uranium from Africa."

[NYC]

26. Tenet quote re the "tapdancing" sentence:

"Officials who were reviewing the draft remarks on uranium raised several concerns about the fragmentary nature of the intelligence with National Security Council colleagues," Tenet said. "Some of the language was changed. From what we know now, agency officials in the end concurred that the text in the speech was factually correct that the British government report said that Iraq sought uranium from Africa."

[blueseas]

27. Dupe discussion

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=26884&mesg_id=26884&page=

Thanks

cluedin
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