george tenet

Breaking and developing: The interview was apparently recorded some weeks ago but released a couple of hours ago, most likely in knowledge of the threats. I already listened to it because I was waiting for the third part of the excellent interview series with Paul Thompson and checked their...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/050607.html Former CIA chief George Tenet's book At the center of the storm provides us with fresh new information about the critical summer of 2001. He gives us more detail about the famous July 10th meeting between Tenet, Black and Rice. But what's new...

George Tenet on 60 Minutes tonight. Topic borrowed from the Conspiracy Theories subforum thread, to allow all who wish to, to discuss freely.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/washington/27intel.html?hp So here we have the ex-director of the CIA, which is implicated by several of the 9/11 conspiracy theories, coming out with a book that is decidedly not on the administration's side. My question to the board's conspiracy theorists...

Friday, Nov. 10, 2006 Exclusive: Charges Sought Against Rumsfeld Over Prison Abuse A lawsuit in Germany will seek a criminal prosecution of the outgoing Defense Secretary and other U.S. officials for their alleged role in abuses at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo By ADAM ZAGORIN...

I guess it's a really bad week for Rumsfeld. :) Thursday, November 9th, 2006 War Crimes Suit Prepared against Rumsfeld The president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner, is heading to Germany today to file a new case charging outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...

Tonight the cable news channels were covering Rumsfeld's unwillingness to go to Germany for some purpose, e.g. attending a conference, reviewing the troops, visitng the wounded, etc. at U.S. bases and hospitals there. The reason some gave is that he is afraid he would be arrested for war...

OK, I'm on my way to Europe and won't have a chance to participate much in this thread but it amazes me that no one has started a thread on this. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/bush_medal_of_freedom This strkes me as just about the most disgusting thing that the Bush...

Rumsfeld facing war crimes case in Germany BERLIN (Reuters) - Lawyers acting for a U.S. advocacy group will today file war crimes charges in Germany against senior U.S. administration officials for their alleged role in torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. "German law in this area is leading...

About bloody time. Says it's for "personal reasons." Whatever, so long as he's gone. Fox story

It took the form of a resignation, of course, but Tenet is out. I'm not surprised. Nor disappointed.

The battle is joined: Tenet at first appeared to defend the administration, saying that he didn't believe the White House misrepresented intelligence provided by the CIA. The administration's statements, he said, reflected a prewar intelligence consensus that Saddam had stockpiled chemical...