How much credibility does Tenet have? If what he says now is what really happened: 1. why did he not object at the time? 2. why did he not resign at the time? 3. why did he accept the Medal of Freedom?

He belongs in jail with the rest of them.

was heard to utter: Mr. Tenet... tear off the the Medal of Freedom

Then maybe he should have chosen his words more carefully and engaged in the serious debate he now talks about.

Wouldn't it be interesting if people serving in high office in this, or any, administration showed a little contemporaneous integrity -- not this 20/20 hindsight pseudo-integrity that has emerged all too often recently? Oh, yeah, such delayed integrity sells books and gives face time on 60 Minutes and other news programs -- but just as we say that "justice delayed is justice denied", I have little time for slow integrity that has allowed countless but predictable deaths to occur. In such cases, silence is anything but golden -- it's deadly, and those who could speak up but refuse are COMPLICIT in those deaths.

Wouldn't it be great if even ONE official in the Bush administration (yes, Colin Powell, I'm talking to YOU) had resigned from office -- publicly, proudly and LOUDLY -- over some matter of principle? This happens all the time in Great Britain and other countries, yet for some reason, rarely if ever in the U.S.

Do cabinet secretaries and lower level officials really believe the oath of office each one utters when being installed -- that they pledge support and allegiance to the country and our Constitution, NOT to this or any President? Don't they recognize that there IS a difference between support and first allegiance to the country and our Constitution, rather than the President?

Just asking.

I love how these ex-Bushies get integrity years after it does us any good, in a passive-aggressive, for-profit book. Where were you when the country desperately needed you to speak up, you craven lapdog?

On of the things that enrage the most the die hard republicans, apologist for the current criminals in office is comparison with the Fascist and Nazis.

Any scholar of 20th century history can easily find the parallels between the attack on Poland, the policies against the racial minorities and the overall abuse of patriotism.

It is almost laughable to see, if it were not for the fact that so many people are losing their lives over a sinful delusion.

The Iraqi war cannot be won because in this moment in history, people refuse to be conquered, subjugated and humiliated.

No amount of Military Might can do that. Not any more, not to humans,

not any more

We were all hypnotized by Magical Jews. Cue Theremin sound. Gordon Vulcan has proof.

Seriously though, this whole 'water is wet' news flash is silly.

I would be willing to bet that in the back of this idiot's mind somewhere He really thinks His little book will SOMEHOW WASH THE BLOOD OFF OF HIS HANDS-- ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!

Excuse me, but, isn't this news-story about four years old? It certainly is four years past due!

The continuing tale of deception, obfuscation, obliteration, misinformation and outright lying by Messrs. Bush, Cheney, et al, is not news to anyone with even a modicum of intelligence. Perhaps the Repooplican base of mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers finds this story "new", but, they're about all.

Now, exactly what must we do to execute a coup d'etat? I'm past ready!

We don't have to do anything. I hold out great hope our military will say "Enough is enough" when W gives the order to go after Iran.

...you save the country FIRST,

THEN you write the book.

It's not the message that makes this news, it's the messenger. It's not every day that an ex-CIA director comes out of the cold and dumps on the sitting president he previously served. Even so, the timing of all this is appears designed more to sell books than right wrongs. Don't forget, nothing in the book could have been printed without prior review and approval. Sort of makes one wonder why Plame had so much trouble with her book. Even so, it would have been far more helpful, and much less self-serving to have heard this from him at the time, rather than 4 years later. It's not quite like McNamara telling us thirty years later that he knew all along that the Vietnam war effort was doomed to failure, but it's up there.

"Tenet admits to saying the "slam-dunk" business." This may the first time someone in the Bush administration has admitted to actually remembering anything.

Why would I believe anything this toady sycophant would say?

He won a Medal of Freedom. What is he whining about now?

isn't dead, it's not even past.

He admitted to using the words "slam dunk". So what? He used them, apparently, in reference to the fact that a lackluster presentation justifying going into Iraq could be made less lackluster. That's very far afield from what Cheney asserted. If Tenet's version of the meeting is accurate, then Cheney just plain lied. And, when asked, the Administration is carefully refusing to dispute Tenet on this one.

Why should anyone believe him? No one says we should believe everything he says. But he was there for all the decisions, so we should at least hear what he has to say.

I watched O'Reilly frothing about George Soros the other night. I can't wait for tonight so I can hear what he has to say about Tenet. I can only take about 10 minutes of O'Reilly, but in that short time it's fun to watch a toadying sycophantic asshole at work. He is totally owned by Big Oil Texans and the Saudis.

He preferred the Medal of Freedom to his own possible heroic place in history by calling his former boss and present occupant a liar two years ago. Add him to the long list of has beens like Colon Powell who chose to be silent while our soldiers were are being blown apart by IEDs. He should be added to the war criminals list. He now knows that you are judged by the "company" you keep. Like the Germans who stood there and wringed their hands while the trains full of Jews were rolling by off to sure doom.

George Tenet is a coward who finally is walloped by the epiphany that he worked for and then was lied about by a bunch of nihilists