Reply #9: The CIA and White House vet ALL books coming out by anyone with any classified access

[youngdem]

those are the rules. Google 'CIA book vetting'. There is political tug of war every time a book comes out by someone with clearance, and there are negotiations. You can bet your ass that the White House was well advised by the current CIA chief that the WHITE HOUSE appointed is keeping them well apprised of what is in George Tenet's book.

What is going on here is a paid game of Cover My Ass. Tenet gets a payoff from a friendly publisher to write a book of revisionist history covering his ass for the forgeries and cherry picking and blaming the White House, and in 20 months, every one of the White House cabal will be doing the same thing.

What seems 'highly unlikely' to me is that ANY of the major players - Cheney, Bush, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Tenet - would EVER, EVER, EVER let out anything remotely resembling the truth about exactly how forged documents from the ISI ended up in the President's speech, and how dozens of other disproven pieces of 'evidence' ended up in Powell's dossier as he lied to the UN and the world about our reasons for going into Iraq.

The unwritten rule in the Bush administration is that you help them with a crime, and when you are exposed, Bush says something nice about you, gives you an ironic award and throws you overboard. Then, you are allowed to go out and say a few things in your defense - but if you go too far, the Bush Cabal will personally destroy you and take your biggest strength and make it your weakness. Call it the Rovian School of Mafia Management.

What is really absurd on its face is how many people really believe a CIA chief would ever publish anything truly incriminating about his own time in office about something as serious as an illegal war.

All you have to know about the motivations of this prick is to watch his defense and denial of torture by the CIA, all the while offering up a justification of torture to prevent terror attacks. He is out selling a book and trying to rehab his image and put some distance between himself and the White House. Don't let it work. It's a lie. The war could never have happened without George Tenet cooking up and selling the false intelligence - mobile weapons labs, bunkers of chemicals, Niger Yellowcake Uranium, Curveball.

Fuck this guy.