Tenet was - “the Alberto Gonzales of the intelligence community”
In a letter written Saturday to former CIA
Director George Tenet, six former CIA officers described their former boss as
“the Alberto Gonzales of the intelligence community”.
In a letter written Saturday to former CIA Director George Tenet, six former CIA officers described their former boss as “the Alberto Gonzales of the intelligence community,” and called his book “an admission of failed leadership.”
The writers said Tenet has “a moral obligation” to return the Medal of Freedom he received from President Bush.
The writers said they agree that Bush administration officials took the nation to war “for flimsy reasons,” and that it has proved “ill-advised and wrong-headed.”
But, they added, “your lament that you are a victim in a process you helped direct is self-serving, misleading and, as head of the intelligence community, an admission of failed leadership.
“You were not a victim. You were a willing participant in a poorly considered policy to start an unnecessary war and you share culpability with Dick Cheney and George Bush for the debacle in Iraq.”
From the outside, it looks like Tenet is going to try to cover his opportunist buns by appealing to the anti-war majority in the United States. Too bad he didn’t have that sort of “courage” in 2003.
Posted: Mon - April 30, 2007 at 06:29 AM