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Subject: List of Lies by George Tenet
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 20:08:45 -0400
From: mpwright9@aol.com
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I can immediately think of four documented and significant lies
which have been told by George Tenet. I do not claim that this
is a complete list. It is only the lies known to me, which come
to mind at this time.
1. Tenet falsely informed the FBI headquarters in August 2001 that
Zacarias Moussaoui was not an Al Qaeda member.
2. Before the war against Iraq was initiated, Tenet had told the
White House that it was a "slam dunk" that Iraq had weapons
of mass destruction. He has now admitted: ""Those were the
two dumbest words I ever said."
See this article in The Guardian of London:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1472825,00.html
3. In testimony before the 9/11 Commission, Tenet denied that he had
ever met with Bush in August 2001.
4. In March 2005, as confirmed by the video, Tenet lied to an audience
at the University of Oklahoma about number 1.
The video of the OU lie is online here. The April 15 entry documents
lie number 3.
http://www.bushbusiness.com/Wright_OP.htm
-- Michael Wright
Norman, Oklahoma
405/329-6688
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Ex-CIA chief eats humble pie
Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Friday April 29, 2005
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1472825,00.html
A chastened former CIA director, George Tenet, says he regrets telling the White House that it was a "slam dunk" that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, an assertion that provided the Bush administration with its prime justification for the war.
Seven months after the weapons inspectors of the Iraq Survey Group concluded that Saddam Hussein did not have a lethal weapons cache on the eve of the invasion, Mr Tenet admitted: "Those were the two dumbest words I ever said."
Mr Tenet stepped down as CIA chief in July last year, days before a report from the Senate savaged his seven years in office. Under his stewardship, the report said, the CIA was blinkered by "group think" about Saddam's arms programme, and suffered from a broken corporate culture and poor management.
Subsequent reports attributed the CIA's intelligence failures to an over-eagerness to please its political masters.
Mr Tenet delivered his now notorious assessment of Iraq's weapons capabilities to President George Bush in December 2002, and the confidence of his "slam dunk" assertion was crucial to Washington's justification of its decision to invade.
But Mr Tenet has undergone a change of heart. He told an audience at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania on Wednesday that the CIA had failed to deliver an accurate assessment of Saddam's weapons capabilities.
"We didn't get the job done, and we understood it before any commission report," Mr Tenet said, blaming budget cuts and congressional restrictions for the CIA's failure. "The atrophy was tremendous," he said. "We were nearly bankrupt."
But he denied that the agency had skewed its assessment on Iraq "for political reasons or a craven desire to lead the country to war".
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Subject: List of Lies by George Tenet
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 20:08:45 -0400
From: mpwright9@aol.com
To:
I can immediately think of four documented and significant lies
which have been told by George Tenet. I do not claim that this
is a complete list. It is only the lies known to me, which come
to mind at this time.
1. Tenet falsely informed the FBI headquarters in August 2001 that
Zacarias Moussaoui was not an Al Qaeda member.
2. Before the war against Iraq was initiated, Tenet had told the
White House that it was a "slam dunk" that Iraq had weapons
of mass destruction. He has now admitted: ""Those were the
two dumbest words I ever said."
See this article in The Guardian of London:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1472825,00.html
3. In testimony before the 9/11 Commission, Tenet denied that he had
ever met with Bush in August 2001.
4. In March 2005, as confirmed by the video, Tenet lied to an audience
at the University of Oklahoma about number 1.
The video of the OU lie is online here. The April 15 entry documents
lie number 3.
http://www.bushbusiness.com/Wright_OP.htm
-- Michael Wright
Norman, Oklahoma
405/329-6688
=================
Ex-CIA chief eats humble pie
Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Friday April 29, 2005
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1472825,00.html
A chastened former CIA director, George Tenet, says he regrets telling the White House that it was a "slam dunk" that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, an assertion that provided the Bush administration with its prime justification for the war.
Seven months after the weapons inspectors of the Iraq Survey Group concluded that Saddam Hussein did not have a lethal weapons cache on the eve of the invasion, Mr Tenet admitted: "Those were the two dumbest words I ever said."
Mr Tenet stepped down as CIA chief in July last year, days before a report from the Senate savaged his seven years in office. Under his stewardship, the report said, the CIA was blinkered by "group think" about Saddam's arms programme, and suffered from a broken corporate culture and poor management.
Subsequent reports attributed the CIA's intelligence failures to an over-eagerness to please its political masters.
Mr Tenet delivered his now notorious assessment of Iraq's weapons capabilities to President George Bush in December 2002, and the confidence of his "slam dunk" assertion was crucial to Washington's justification of its decision to invade.
But Mr Tenet has undergone a change of heart. He told an audience at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania on Wednesday that the CIA had failed to deliver an accurate assessment of Saddam's weapons capabilities.
"We didn't get the job done, and we understood it before any commission report," Mr Tenet said, blaming budget cuts and congressional restrictions for the CIA's failure. "The atrophy was tremendous," he said. "We were nearly bankrupt."
But he denied that the agency had skewed its assessment on Iraq "for political reasons or a craven desire to lead the country to war".
================================
Newsweek apology fails to cool Qur'an anger
World: Newsweek's apology for Qur'an desecration story greeted with scorn across the Muslim world and in the US.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,1485636,00.html
US 'backed illegal Iraqi oil deals'
The United States administration turned a blind eye to extensive sanctions-busting in the prewar sale of Iraqi oil, according to a new Senate investigation.
Special report: Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/0,2759,423009,00.html
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