.."I think Tenet will be around at least through the election," McGovern says. "There are two reasons for this—the same two reasons that kept him around after Sept. 11, 2001."
"Explain," I say trying to sound presidential.
"One would have thought that the raison d’être for the Central Intelligence Agency was to prevent another Pearl Harbor," McGovern says. "One would have thought that the person most responsible for this would have been cashiered on Sept. 12. Not so. So the question is: Why not so?"
"So, why not?" I ask.
"First of all, George Tenet warned the president of the United States about the threat of terrorism almost ad nauseam during the entire spring and summer of 2001. In the final analysis, the president had been warned often enough and long enough. He should have done something about it."
"Why didn’t he?" I wonder.
"Because Bush didn’t know what to do," McGovern says. "And Condoleezza Rice, his adviser on such things, didn’t know a thing about terrorism. By her own admission, she hadn’t opened the file that [Clinton National Security Advisor] Sandy Berger left behind that said, ‘Read This File First.’ She knew a lot about the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe but nothing about terrorism. The charitable explanation for why nothing was done is gross ineptitude and gross malfeasance."
"What about Tenet?"
"George Tenet no doubt has a little computer disc with the 27 or so warnings that he gave the president starting in spring and going right up until September 2001," says McGovern. "The president and his advisers in the White House, knowing this, didn’t dismiss Tenet after Sept. 11 because it was too much of a risk. Were they to have dismissed Tenet on Sept. 12, they could not have been sure that he wouldn’t have said, ‘Wait a second. Let me print off some of these warnings. Let me show you what I told the president in the President’s Daily Brief on Aug. 6, 2001.’ So that’s reason No. 1.
"Reason No. 2 is that Tenet is simply too useful of a guy to have around," McGovern continues. "He does what he’s told. If he’s told to do an estimate and told to make sure the conclusions come out the same as a Dick Cheney speech from the month before, he’ll do it." ...
http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/04/24/news-callahan.php
America's assault on al-Qa'eda has scattered its terrorist expertise across the globe, meaning that the United States will be menaced by Islamic extremism "for the foreseeable future", the CIA director, George Tenet, said yesterday. It's the reality of the failed Neocon Bush Regime's Empire wet-dream - it's what they've done to US. (And J. Edgar Tenet probably has pictures to boot).
