Reply #274: Tenet's role in this administration has always intrigued me.

[Old and In the Way]

There's much about him we don't understand. Like, why didn't Bush play Tenet as the scapegoat after 9/11? He was a Clinton appointee afterall and I'm sure they could have pinned the blame on him (remember, this was before the 8/6 PDB was exposed). Same thing with the "bad intel" for the run up to Iraq war. In both cases, Bush gives him public support.

I thought maybe Tenet was waiting until he left the CIA to expose Bush, but that hasn't happened....and, in fact, he gets a service medal from Bush!

Seems to me that Tenet and Bush might be mutually compromised. Both must have dirt on each other that amounts to a MAD relationship.

I agree on a bigger, more complicated picture. We've seen glimpses of the truth, but, so far, the facts don't add up to anthing that unifies a theory to describe what has transpired over the past 50 years or so.