George Tenet excuses the torture he will not admit to on grounds of 9/11. That day was possible only because the rule passed in 1970s that the pilot's cabin will be rendered impenetrable was, by 2000 never ever observed. Thus, in 20 minutes four passenger planes were skyjacked. So when Tenet insisted to Wolf Blitzer that only the torture of detainees resulted in the stopping of more passenger panes used as flying bombs, I insist, no, post-9/11 impenetrability of the pilot's cabin finally prevented it. But from Bush to Michael Sheuer, incompetent "intelligence blind" officials have been excusing their unimaginative use of torture-- which they will not talk about, other than say that they didn't use it but used it-- on grounds that it stopped what they can't talk about. Tenet wants us to tell him that we don't want terror in order to prevent it. So, just as I would have told Al Capone that we don't want murder used, I tell Tenet that we don't want torture used, especially when it has produced nothing that they can point to. To try and get our attention in exchange for a $4 million dollars publishing contract and then say that you can't talk about what you did, is more of the CIA deceptions we witnessed in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and beyond: all in the course of shady cash deals that resulted in a lot of lowly payed CIA operatives becoming rich entrepreneurs on Saudi cash upon retirement. You can't continue to lie, Mr. Tenet, on grounds that the truth is a secret!

Daniel E. Teodoru

George Tenet excuses the torture he will not admit to on grounds of 9/11. That day was possible only because the rule passed in 1970s that the pilot's cabin will be rendered impenetrable was, by 2000 never ever observed. Thus, in 20 minutes four passenger planes were skyjacked. So when Tenet insisted to Wolf Blitzer that only the torture of detainees resulted in the stopping of more passenger panes used as flying bombs, I insist, no, post-9/11 impenetrability of the pilot's cabin finally prevented it. But from Bush to Michael Sheuer, incompetent "intelligence blind" officials have been excusing their unimaginative use of torture-- which they will not talk about, other than say that they didn't use it but used it-- on grounds that it stopped what they can't talk about. Tenet wants us to tell him that we don't want terror in order to prevent it. So, just as I would have told Al Capone that we don't want murder used, I tell Tenet that we don't want torture used, especially when it has produced nothing that they can point to. To try and get our attention in exchange for a $4 million dollars publishing contract and then say that you can't talk about what you did, is more of the CIA deceptions we witnessed in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and beyond: all in the course of shady cash deals that resulted in a lot of lowly payed CIA operatives becoming rich entrepreneurs on Saudi cash upon retirement. You can't continue to lie, Mr. Tenet, on grounds that the truth is a secret!

Daniel E. Teodoru

In a country the size of France, a six-points lead is not very big so Sarcozy's victory makes him a hard-ass standing on soft ground. Ironically, at this very time that the British and German peoples are coming to learn that as allies of America they fall back into the 19th Century-- when God was a cover for robber barons, provoking spasms of reform-- they will change things drastically. First of all, they realize that national value defined as points in a speculative stock market without foresight, thus puting the future of their children geostrategically and ecologically at risk, is not net gain but net loss all around. Secondly, they realize that self-discipline to the historical national cultural values and common European standards make them different from Americans and in need of a more Continental discipline, not speculator's larcenous indiscipline. The change will soon be evident in British elections, German drift towards traditional values and reform of the EU. Yet France chose to go with a totally non-French and non-European foreigner-president-elect with allegiances to concepts of sycophancy such as brought poodle Blair to disaster. Bush is famously ridiculed for saying that the French have no word for "entrepreneur"-- a word that literally translates to the taking middle man-- a mere speculator on the capital of others with no skills or productive capacity. Ironically, Sarcozy's election proves that France keeps suffering from an "esprit de speculateur"-- people who want to gamble with loaded dice, like Bush's American backers. And all this comes as Bush will leave the White House one step ahead of the sheriff!

C'est tres tragic que les francais ont ci peur d'une famme au bout!

Daniel E. Teodoru