George Tenet, drunk in Prince Bandar's pool, screams about "the Jews" setting him up

[nichomachus]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/17/george-tenet-screamed-abo_n_151690.html

The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg offers an interesting excerpt from "A World Of Trouble," a forthcoming book by Patrick Tyler on the White House and the Middle East. In this scene, CIA director George Tenet, drunk on scotch at Saudi Prince Bandar's pool, rants about Bush administration "Jews" who are "setting me up" to take the fall for the false WMD claims:

A servant appeared with a bottle. Tenet knocked back some of the scotch. Then some more. They watched with concern. He drained half the bottle in a few minutes.

"They're setting me up. The bastards are setting me up," Tenet said, but "I am not going to take the hit."
...

"According to one witness, he mocked the neoconservatives in the Bush administration and their alignment with the right wing of Israel's political establishment, referring to them with exasperation as, "the Jews."

[Vanje]

1. Kick! Rec! Give that man another bottle of Scotch

and a Medal of Freedom!

[global1]

2. So Was The Medal of Freedom Quid Pro Quo For Tenet TakingThe Hit.....

on the WMD's.

[nichomachus]

3. I'll give you three guesses -- and the first two don't count.

[The Doctor.]

5. Funny... I didn't take that to be a question.

:)

[formercia]

4. In Bandar's pool

What better place to be and rant about the Jooos. Was that Saudi Scotch?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

22. Saudi Scotch??!!

Heaven forfend! At the least, it was Oban! An especially old bottle as well.

[formercia]

33. Probably Bandar's former place in Vail

In the homeland, it's serious offense to be drunk in public.

On a flight over, I was chatting with an oil man who was going to ransom one of his crew. He got drunk and went for a walk and did some grab-assing on a local girl. They were going to cut both of his hands off. It cost $50 K to appease their sensibilities.

[SoCalDem]

42. There was a story in an Austin paper back in '01 that really told the tales

The Saudi family would get ON their plane in SA..wearing the traditional garb, and once in flight, they would don their fancy western duds & pack away the Middle eastern stuff.. The ladies would put on their Versaces & high heels & the guys would put on their fancy suits & ties..

It's an ACT.. they put on the show for their minions back home because they have to appear to be super religious..

[progressoid]

6. Good Gawd. It's like a bad movie of the week.

[SpiralHawk]

8. Groan - a bad horror movie of the week: The Bush-Republicon Crusade...

for all-time Infamy.

[ContinentalOp]

7. I kinda thought he was Jewish. -nt-

[SoCalDem]

43. Nope... "Old School CATHOLIC"..

Tenet was the "fall guy" kept on so the Bushies could blame intelligence failures on HIM..

When I saw they were keeping him, I KNEW "something" was gonna happen:(

I never thoyught he would be their fall guy so cheaply though.. bought off for a cheesy medal (unless Poppy & Bar kicked in some serious cash in a numbered account in the Caymans)

[rateyes]

9. Good Gawd, with that much scotch in him, he could have been arrested

for Swimming Under the Influence. It's amazing how well scotch works as truth serum.

[tblue37]

10. Religious Muslims don't drink or serve alcohol, of course. nt

[charlie]

11. The keeper of US intelligence secrets

Blotto. In a Saudi pool. And Walmart greeters have to piss in cups to stay employed.

Poor George. Dumb George. Slam Dunk George. Anti-semite George. You HAVE taken the hits and they just keep coming, don't they? You danced with the Devil and you want us to believe it was date rape?

[acmavm]

44. Ironic, isn't it?

[yurbud]

12. In Bandar's pool blaming the Jews? that's like hanging out in a brothel and complaining that your

wife is unfaithful.

[yurbud]

13. once again, Bush era reality is satire proof

[DS1]

14. Sounds like he'll be spending more time in Mel Gibson's pool

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. I thought alcohol was illegal in Saudi Arabia and only legal on

designated foreign conclaves? Anyway, Tenet's historic reputation
will age like bad wine that will finally turn to vinegary urine.

Piss on him and the neo-cons. I consider Tenet a traitor.

[Chulanowa]

16. Well, there's that old line...

"It's good to be the king"

Or in this case, the prince. You see, there's a REASON the Saudi people hate the al Saud family. It's the same reason that militant islam has such a strong foothold in Saudi Arabia. It's the same reason American governments have supported the corrupt Saud dictatoral monarchy since the foundation of the Saudi Arabian state, even while inflicting liberty upon so many other Middle Eastern country.

if Democracy were to sweep Saidi Arabia, we would end up with a Sunni version of Iran, dominated by Wahhabist philosophy. This would be a bad thing, honestly, and I'm saying that as a guy who beleives every nation's people should be free to live as they wish.

[RB TexLa]

19. It didn't say if they were in Saudi Arabia or Colorado.

[charlie]

20. Palace in Riyadh n/t

[RB TexLa]

30. The article does not say Riyadh

where did you get that from?

[charlie]

31. Article linked from the original

http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/12/george_tenet_drunk_in_bandars.php

[RB TexLa]

32. I had looked at that one, must have missed it.

sorry

[htuttle]

34. I used to know a Palestinian ex-pat...

...who's previous job was delivering van loads of wine to the King's palace in Saudi Arabia.

Also, apparently old King Fahd had gotten so fat by that time that they literally needed a forklift to get him on airplanes...

[spanone]

17. tenet mocks himself....neocon facilitator

[Zodiak]

18. Reminds me of another revealing moment with a drunk man in a pool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7UG2IghngM

Chris Holmes....but at least Chris didn't kill anyone but himself.

[charlie]

21. Believe or not

Holmes isn't dead.

[Zodiak]

23. Really?

I thought he was one of the many who died. Perhaps I am confusing him with Robin Crosby.

[charlie]

25. I figured him for dead as soon as the cameras stopped rolling

Who can do that even once and live? But yeah, he's still around. Still a bottom-tier rocker.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

26. Yeah, Robin be all deaded up.

That shooting drugs is great for you, huh?

Gawd, I used to be with Rudy and we would watch all these guys at various times and just say to each other "How do they do it and why?"

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

24. Amazing.

Remarkable constitution of the man. I am sure he is still slinking around the few remaining rock hangs in LA, now that The Rainbow is closed, saying to people "Hey! Do you know who I used to be!" in the hopes of getting a drink.

Man, that boy could get fucked up.

[charlie]

27. You're not far off

Point of fact, you're dead on:

http://myspace.com/chris_meanman_holmes

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

37. 27 Years, Charlie.

27 years I spent in that business. I can look at a band on their first big gig and tell you how it will all end up. Done it so many times it scares me.

All those Hair Band guys, they're all pretty much the same. I just cannot understand why my good, good friend, one Phillip Anthony Taylor, is consorting with such rabble. Philthy deserves far, far better.

[charlie]

38. Philthy?

Motorhead's Philthy? You know him? Gadzooks!

Would that Rudy you mentioned upthread be Szarzo? If it is, it would explain how he eventually wound on the roster of EVERY popmetal band that came out of the 80s. It would make him just about the only LA hairband bassist that wasn't strung out or too R-U-REDDY-2-ROCK drunk to be dependable, lol.

Yeah, Hair Metal, whatta blight. Wasn't remotely metal and as much a corporate invention as Boy Bands. Best forgotten.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

39. By the numbers:

1. For someone so nice, I call him Philip. Philthy...I just just don't like calling friends that.

2. Yup. He did like me making a cup of Cuban Coffee for him to drink, halfway through the show. He also liked the way I teased his hair before the show. :rofl: You could reliably and toughly clear-coat a M1A2 with the hairspray he used. ;-)

A digression: Are you aware just how learned and well-read a certain Ian Kilmister is? Are you aware that he aspires to write on scholaly subjects such as history? Are you aware that when someone is sick, that he becomes that person's mother, so to speak, and endeavors to see them well? The image may be as rough as floor-stripping sandpaper, but the gentleman(and he really can be quite courtly...) is a big sweetheart in real life.

But then there was the time I caught him in the men's loo at "Frank's Funny Farm" with the drummer of "Girl's School". That was not courtly. ;-)

[charlie]

40. Nooo dude, don't do that!

Lemmy is LEMMY, I don't want to hear about him in tweed with a cup of Earl Grey. He's so metal he waited out that poof-a-dooma hair stuff and METAL came back to looking and sounding like HIM. As it should :D

Actually, that's a helluva surprise. I never pegged him for a dimwit, but I didn't suspect he was bookish. Or a mother hen. I like him even more now.

If you see him, tell him his version of Hellraiser was the definitive one.

[lovuian]

28. Tenet was right the NeoCons Wolfawitz Lieberman

Pearle Kristol yes Lieberman gave him the kiss

[cali]

29. yeah, never mind that Cheney isn't Jewish and was the one with the power

[Behind the Aegis]

35. Sounds like someone else is vying for a drunken swim the Prince's pool.

(Not, you, of course.)

[Ghost in the Machine]

36. There were a lot of neocons "in" power...

Richard 'Dick" Cheney - Vice President

Donald Rumsfeld - US Secretary of Defense

Paul Wolfowitz - US Deputy Secretary of Defense

Condoleeza Rice - US National Security Adviser

I Lewis "Scooter" Libby - Chief of Staff for VP Cheney

Richard Perle - Chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee of the Pentagon

Richard Armitage - Deputy Secretary of State

Stephen Hadley - Deputy National Security Advisor

I can keep going.. but you get the picture... let's not forget about the Vulcans, either...

"The Vulcans is a nickname used to refer to Republican Presidential candidate George W. Bush's foreign policy advisory team assembled to brief him prior to the 2000 U.S. presidential election. The Vulcans were led by Condoleezza Rice and included Richard Armitage, Robert Blackwill, Stephen Hadley, Richard Perle, Dov S. Zakheim, Robert Zoellick and Paul Wolfowitz. Other key campaign figures including Dick Cheney, George P. Shultz and Colin Powell were also closely associated with the group but were never actually members. During the campaign, Bush sought to deflect questions about his own lack of foreign policy experience by pointing to this group of experienced advisers. After the election, all the members of the team received key positions within the new Bush administration." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vulcans


There's a bad, bad neocon infestation in our Government and it needs to be exterminated quickly.... take a look at this list of PNAC signatories

[judasdisney]

41. Bogus story -- modified limited hangout

One week before Rush Limbaugh was about to be exposed for his oxycotin addiction, Limbaugh used his ESPN sportscaster gig to drop a racist statement about Donovan McNabb.

This was intentional chum to create a feeding frenzy and draw-out some of Limbaugh's most crazy-sounding opponents, to cushion the blow against himself that he knew would be coming.

This is commonly known as a "modified limited hangout" in intelligence community parlance.

Likewise this story sounds like a modified limited hangout. Either some imminent bombshell news is coming about Tenet, or Tenet is trying to distance himself from his own Neocon cabal.

What this action does tell us, however -- res ipso loquitur -- is that Tenet is on the defensive about something.