Intelligence expert on Tenet: 'A whining, sniveling, political bureaucrat'
More and more retired military officers and members of the intelligence services are speaking out about the decisions made by the White House following 9/11. Col. W. Patrick Lang is one of them. From his blog, Sic Semper Tyrannis:
Col. Lang's Sic Semper Tyrannis and The Athenaeum are both excellent reads. For the record, Lang is a retired senior officer of U.S. Military Intelligence and U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Berets). He served in the Department of Defense both as an officer and as a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service.
He was trained and educated by the U.S. Army as a specialist in the Middle East and served in that region for many years. He was the first Professor of the Arabic Language at the United States Military Academy at West Point. In he was the Defense Intelligence Officer for the Middle East, South Asia and Terrorism for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and later the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. For his service in DIA, he was awarded the Presidential Rank of Distinguished Executive.
A Man for NO SeasonThe rest is here.
by Col. W. Patrick Lang
George Tenet was on "Meet the Press" today. What a pitiful spectacle. This is not a man. This is a whining, sniveling, political bureaucrat, a spoiled child who, in his own mind, is never to blame for anything, never really takes responsibility for his failures of judgment and action, and spins, and spins and spins.
George's "admissions" of responsibility are always carefully couched in words that do not actually say things like, "I was wrong," "I failed," "The war was a mistake," "I failed in what I did not do to stop this oncoming disaster." He quibbles. Quibbling is not acceptable in an intelligence officer, certainly not in the BOSS intelligence officer. I wonder if the Society of Jesus is happy when Tenet cites the principles that he thinks they taught him as justification for his way of doing things.
Col. Lang's Sic Semper Tyrannis and The Athenaeum are both excellent reads. For the record, Lang is a retired senior officer of U.S. Military Intelligence and U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Berets). He served in the Department of Defense both as an officer and as a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service.
He was trained and educated by the U.S. Army as a specialist in the Middle East and served in that region for many years. He was the first Professor of the Arabic Language at the United States Military Academy at West Point. In he was the Defense Intelligence Officer for the Middle East, South Asia and Terrorism for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and later the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. For his service in DIA, he was awarded the Presidential Rank of Distinguished Executive.
Labels: CIA, DIA, George Tenet, Patrick Lang
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An accurate assessment: a pitiful spectacle.
I was disappointed that Russert didn’t challenge Tenet more … for example
MR. RUSSERT: At that time, then, why didn't you stand up and go to the president and vice president and say, "Stop saying this. It's not true"?
MR. TENET: Right before the war, Tim, the vice president wanted to give a speech about the Iraq/al-Qaeda relationship that he sent to us for clearance. And I walked in and saw the president of the United States and said, "He can't give this speech. We will not support this speech." That speech was not given. There's no doubt about where we were on this issue. Everybody understood where we were, and everybody understood there was no authority, direction, control and complicity.
WHOA ! Why didn’t you go to the source of the speech … were you afraid of Cheney?
There should be a lot of members of Congress that should be extremely upset with Tenet. He mislead or by inaction to correct/stop proliferation of information caused unconscionable consequences … but he is not alone (See Frank Rich’s column on Condi Rice below) … he’s just stupid enough to write a book.
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