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Ever read a Zagat restaurant review, where they take reviews by a bunch of people and put them together, using lots of direct quotes, to try to give you an accurate picture of a restaurant? Fueled by a little Knob Creek and the belief that the Tenet thing ain't neurosurgery, it just dawned on me that if you do pull a Zagat on all the DU Tenet opining, you can approach what's really going on. So here it is, with as many direct quotes from DU posts as possible:
1) As everyone who was even half-awake during the war run up, and which only CBS managed to report today, Tenet was "pressured by Cheney & Rumsfeld in the run up to the Iraq War. He & the CIA didn't believe Chalabi, but he was pressured to accept the info from Chalabi."
2) Then things "go bad. Really bad" in Iraq. SThe administration needs a "fall guy" and "plausible deniability for the invasion." Who better than the "CLINTON appointed" Chief Intel Officer.
3) Let the games begin. Having identified the target, the "neocons fly into action." As every PR person knows, to sell an explanation of an event to Americans, there has to be a crystal clear "event" that causes another "event." Enter the Senate Intelligence Committee.
4) NeoCon Pat Roberts is more than happy to help. Roberts has "used his Committee to shield the Bush administration from any culpability" in 9-11 and the intel failures vis a vis Iraq. What better way to help protect Chimp than to use his committee he controls "to generate a report that blames the whole thing on Tenet."
5) Time to pile on. Powell puts out word he's "pressuring the CIA" to fess up and that he's "out for blood," and "wanted name, rank and serial numbers" of anyone involved inb the failures." Chimp tells "I-Get-A-Woody-for-Access Woody that Tenet said the words 'Slam Dunk.'" 'Natch Dem hawks Biden and Lieberman play along, and thusly get invited on TV shows disproportionately to any other senators over the past few weeks.
6) Yesterday, The NY Times is leaked a teaser in which a "republican source speculates" that Tenet will resign before Roberts's report is unfurled. "Ding. Ding. Ding."
7) Either voluntarily or not (who can know that for sure?) Tenet leaves, "creating a fall guy (a man and his agency) for 9/11 and Iraq war blunders"
8) The media dutifully reports that the "resignation may have been hastened by a critical, 400-page report from the Senate Intelligence Committee." Bam. "American Idol watching Americans" say that "9-11 was Tenet's fault. Our Preznit fixed it."
And there you have it. I give DU 31/2 stars overall for figuring out what really happened.
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