Let the Record Show, Facts Are Stubborn Things
Posted by Andy on April 30th, 2007
Via Powerline, we find out about a major lie in George Tenet’s book exposed by the Weekly Standard.
THE WEEKLY STANDARD has now learned of a second, more stunning error in Tenet’s book (which is due to appear in bookstores tomorrow). According to Michiko Kakutani’s review in Saturday’s Times,
On the day after 9/11, he [Tenet] adds, he ran into Richard Perle, a leading neoconservative and the head of the Defense Policy Board, coming out of the White House. He says Mr. Perle turned to him and said: “Iraq has to pay a price for what happened yesterday. They bear responsibility.”
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.
As John notes at the bottom of the post, “So, along with his other failings, George Tenet is a liar. Some will say that President Bush’s biggest mistake was trusting the key post of Director of Central Intelligence to a Democrat.”
Oh how true. Most of the ‘holdovers’ from the Clinton administration have come back to bite Bush in the behind. With the hyperpartisan Democrats on the full court press to surrender in Iraq, this book is suspiciously well timed. Especially given that Congressional Democrats are playing a game of political chicken with troop funding for the Iraq war.
Let the bush administration be an example for every future Republican President. Do not trust Democrats who were there before you.
What happened to the idea that the CIA and FBI were bumbling idiots? What happened to the idea that neither agency was aware that they knew pieces of the 9-11 plot, but didn’t coordinate or communicate?
[sigh]
Oh, well, it is because Tenet comes from the Clinton era where our inteligence community was a law enforcement agency, not defense minded. Tenet’s CIA was able to finger the 19 hijackers in mere hours, but they couldn’t stop them.
I’m not surprised Tenet is tryi9ng to rewrite history. After 9-11 the CIA changed, it couldn’t be reactive any longer.
Oh well, its a book, loosely based on factual events, written by a Democrat, to smear a Republican.
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