And the Winner of the ‘War On Terror’ Financed Dream Home 2014 Giveaway Is…

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Oceanfront views, 24-hour doorman, heated pool, and perhaps best of all, a “private tunnel to the beach.” This $3 million Palm Beach, Florida penthouse could be yours, but unfortunately it isn’t because this prize has already been claimed by a former high-level U.S. official who helped pave the way for the over decade-long “war on terror,”which has been a near complete catastrophe.

Iraq is aflame, the Islamic State is on the rampage, the situation in Afghanistan worsens by the day, and thousands of Americans—and many more Iraqis and Afghans—have died during the post-9/11 conflicts. Meanwhile, the combined cost of the “war on terror” comes to an estimated $1.6 trillion.

But if the American people got screwed on the deal, a lot of former senior government officials who played important roles in this debacle have done quite well for themselves. It’s New Year’s Eve and I need to write a final sendoff to 2014, so I thought I’d take a look at the fortunes (literally) of some of these figures: Former CIA director George Tenet and former FBI director Louis Freeh (I’ll cover former Department of Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge in a New Year’s post).

Consider Tenet. As head of the CIA, he missed multiple signs of a major Al Qadea attack directed against the United States, called the case against Saddam building Weapons of Mass Destruction a “slam dunk,” and approved the Bush administration’s torturing of terror suspects.

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https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/31/winner-war-terror-financed-dream-home-2014-giveaway/

[PumpkinAle]

1. Beautiful and now marred forever

by Tenet and his cronies. Grrrrrrrrrr.

[world wide wally]

2. Are you picking on our greatest patriots just because they worked so hard and deserve all

That money and a comfortable life after serving their country?


Sarcasm.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Welllll....those patriots were under a lot of pressure like their pals using waterboards.

[daleanime]

3. K&R....

[90-percent]

5. a comment

Our institutions are infested with corrupt and overly wealthy war profiteers and traitors.

-90% Jimmy

[jwirr]

6. Off topic but I wonder if the builders of these houses ever considered how many tiny houses they

could build for what that one costs? Just wishing.

[classof56]

7. As a tiny house fan, I couldn't agree more.

for truth and 'cause I know it'll never happen.

Sigh...

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. What a lovely thought

Interesting how many people do not want or need ostentatious trappings to feel ok with themselves, isn't it?

[jwirr]

10. Yes, ironically I live in one room and share a bath room with the other residents. So i kind of have

my little house.

[Overseas]

8. Sad K&R.