The Anchoress

Lorie at Wizbang picks up on something George Tenet said in an interview this weekendvideo here:

SCOTT PELLEY, CBS’ “60 MINUTES”: January ‘03, the President, again: “imagine those 19 hijackers this time armed by Saddam’s Hussein,” is that what you’re telling the President?

TENNET: Well I can’t explain it.

Writes Lorie: [...] Maybe Pelley and Tenet think we should have waited until 2007 to address that threat, then if our estimates were off by a year or three and Saddam had the bomb in 2004, then oopsie, tough break.

Me, I’m surprised that Pelley didn’t ask Tenet about the NYT’s assertion (quickly dropped once they realized it helped, rather than hurt, President Bush) that Saddam was one year away from having nukes when we caught him. Ah, the inconvenient narrative again goes down the rabbit hole.

Christopher Hitchens calls Tenet a sniveling disgrace.

Sister Toldjah notes some challenges to Tenet’s themes that should not go unnoticed.

Michael Ledeen pulls no punches and calls Tenet’s book an utter strikeout:

This is our CIA at work, and unfortunately it’s what we’ve come to expect: the same organization that has been justly excoriated by commission after commission for its lack of understanding of the threat against the United States. Tenet reached his conclusions, and launched a bureaucratic tantrum, without talking to anyone present at the Rome meeting. Neither he nor his associates, nor anyone from his publisher, Harper/Collins, ever asked me about it, and when rumors began to circulate a few years ago, I insisted on recounting the actual facts to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Roger Simon finds errors that will likely go unaddressed, except by Richard Perle who was there…or not there, as it were.

Andrew McCarthy sinks his teeth into Tenet while AJ suggests his whine of a book is meant to set the Impeachment stage.

Flopping Aces says Tenet’s scored a foul, and cites another very interesting part of Tenet’s interview w/ Pelley.

Meanwhile…as we watch the press look ever backward in its quest to look forward to impeachment, no one is paying attention to Iran’s braggadoccio as they declare America “defeated” and take credit for our “withdrawal.”

Thank you, Harry Reid et al.

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