Comments on: George Tenet: At The Center Of The Storm

Former CIA Director Breaks His Silence

[nrobertson36]

This guy is a joke. The medal he has around his neck given by Bush must be depriving his brain from oxygen. No he can't sleep at night for the sins he commited.

[spredbury]

Tenet is just another of Bush's trolls. Tenet is just like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Hadley, Gonzales, and so many more within Bush's kindom who have violated the honor of the American people and the honor of this great country. These people will say and do anything to cover up the evil they have done and continue do to our country on a daily basis.It was said by someone else earlier in these comments.... "I love my country buy I fear my Government". America is great and I love my country very much but our Government is criminal and our leaders are criminals. All you Bush lovers ask yourself. How many innocent people have been or are being held in one of Bush's prisons? How many innocent people have been or are being tortured? If you can say they are all guilty, then kill them all and close down the prisons. But if just one of these indiviuals is innocent.....what does that say about us? What does that say about you? What does that say about what Bush has done to American?

[bellal-2009]

These are people who know who's responsible for the next terrorist attack %u2026 [who] wouldn't blink an eyelash about killing you, your family, me and my family and everybody in this town."



Reality check.

[feelfree1]

Re: "Ex-CIA Director George Tenet says the intelligence extracted from terror suspects in the agency's "High Value Detainee" program, which includes so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques,"

Men like Tenet have deeply disgraced himself and our country, by thumbing his nose at our Constitution and the rule of law. His apologist efforts on behalf of State kidnapping and murder are despicable.

The CIA is little more than a U.S. tax funded terrorist organization, and the enforcemnt arm of mutli-national corporate greed.

Tenet was a top-level terror agent, no better than your average mobster. History will not look kindly on him. I look forward to George Tenet on the receiving end of the gavel.

It%u2019s a %u201Cslam-dunk%u201D.

[robindallas-2009]

Excuse me, Fredgrad, but Tenet's actions now, by claiming the render and torture program works serves both him and Bush. His "slam dunk" statement was provided to help create the fear momentum necessary to hoodwink us into the illegal invasion and occupation of the sovereign country of Iraq. Now there are over 3300 dead American soldiers and over 650,000 dead Iraqis.

Remember that the initial intelligence report on Iraq given to Bush was rejected as "not good enough" by Bush. Tenet then went back and returned with the "slam dunk" statement. Slam dunk sure played out nicely as a benchmark propaganda talking point. Those two words coming from the chief of the CIA..that's powerful stuff. I would say that Tenet's actions since Bush has taken the office proves beyond a doubt that he is now an official loyal Bushie.

Put down the Kool-Aid and come to your senses.

ROBinDALLAS

[bm6005]

These are highly trained professionals. Do you trust anyone?
Posted by bellaL

Wow, does "gullible" come to mind? What about the FBI intel that was found to be inappropriate and illegal recently? God you remind me of Americans of the 30's-40's, trust the gov't! I love my country, I fear my gov't. Especially with Bush II.

[bm6005]

.the program saved lives and allowed the government to foil terror plots."

Well, that's good enough for me. I really don't care about a terrorists rights if it's saving innocent lives. I really don't.
Posted by bellaL

You're certainly easy to convince. Kind of like accept it like religious faith. Wow what a critical thinker!!

[fredgrad2000]

ROBinDALLAS -

Tenet was a CLINTON appointee!!!!!! He may have gotten slam dunk wrong, but to say its because he's allied to Bush is idiotic - he owed his career to Bill Clinton (who coincidentally, in one person who has NEVER said George Bush lied or cooked the books on the Iraq intelligence, and he has it all).

[bellal-2009]

djconklin, That's not going to happen. It's not like there's absolutely no accountability. These are highly trained professionals. Do you trust anyone?

[djconklin]

"Well, that's good enough for me. I really don't care about a terrorists rights if it's saving innocent lives. I really don't."

I don't care ab't terrorists either; but, when they define you as a terrorist I won't be sitting on the sideline yelling "Go for it!"

[bellal-2009]

...the program saved lives and allowed the government to foil terror plots."

Well, that's good enough for me. I really don't care about a terrorists rights if it's saving innocent lives. I really don't.

[robindallas-2009]

Tenet can say, "believe me" or "trust me" about how this new render and torture system has thwarted attacks and saved lives, but we must remember that George Tenet is the one who said that it was a "SLAM DUNK" that Saddam had WMDs. It appears that Tenet still serves the administration, and himself by saying that the torture and render program has worked. Of course we can't be shown any real evidence of this. He is in fact a party to the trumped up, embellished and even falsified evidence used to get America into a disastrous illegal invasion and occupation of the sovereign country of Iraq. Come to think of it, why is he not being investigated? Maybe because he is a loyal Bushie.

[sandy19731]

Psychological research has shown that people will say almost anything to avoid pain. There aren't too many Rambos out there.

I would confess to subversive activity if you water board me. So would you.

Actually bribery works better, but it's not foolproof either.

[kansas1946]

This administration is evil. Water boarding is torture and for an American president to condone torture as policy makes me sick to my stomach. Tenet can blather on all he wants about saving lives, but I think Bush's favorite philosopher might disagree...
"What profit it a man to gain the whole world if he loseth his own soul." JC
This administration is evil.

[freespeech3]

We have become the bad guy.

[searingtruth]

Mirror

My friends, sometimes the most difficult thing about fighting evil is realizing that it actually exists, and then unambiguously and forcefully calling it what it is.

History shows time and time again that one of evils greatest strengths is its ability to disguise itself as good, or at least a temporary necessity, until that last fatal moment when its revelation becomes clear, indisputable, and inescapable.

So today let us take a clear and unadulterated look into the mirror at ourselves.

Just six years ago we were one of the most respected and admired defenders of democracy and human rights in history. Respected not only by our friends, but even begrudgingly by most of our enemies. In fact, even the fantastic power of our military paled in comparison to the overwhelming might of our moral authority.

Today we are a nation that operates secret prisons occupied by anonymous inmates, illegally abducted and held indefinitely without charge or representation. We are guilty of torture. We are guilty of murder. We are guilty of preemptive war of conquest. We are guilty of the wholesale surveillance of our population, suppressing all hope of privacy and free dissent. And we are guilty of disgracing our nation through the abandonment of even our most basic precepts of morality.

If this is not evil, then nothing we have ever fought against is evil, and nothing we have ever fought for is good.

Excerpt from A Future of the Brave


A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com

'The High Value Detainee program uses "enhanced" techniques said to include...water boarding, in which suspects reportedly are restrained as a steady stream of water is poured over their faces, causing a severe gag reflex and a terrifying fear of drowning...
"We don't torture people," he says.'

Does anyone remember when it was the Soviet Union who used the "Big Lie"?

[rocketguy2]

I agree with Tenet. War is hell. Loosely and politely paraphrasing General Patton, "You don't win wars by dying for your country. You win wars by making the other guy die for his country or cause."