Tenet: CIA warned of 'anarchy' in Iraq

[Roland99]

Source: AP (via Yahoo)

SAN FRANCISCO - The
CIA warned the Bush White House seven months before the 2003 Iraq invasion that the U.S. could face a thicket of bad consequences, starting with "anarchy and the territorial breakup" of the country, former CIA Director George Tenet writes in a new book.

CIA analysts wrote the warning at the start of August 2002 and inserted it into a briefing book distributed at an early September meeting of President Bush's national security team at Camp David, he writes.

The agency analysis painted what Tenet calls additional "worst-case" scenarios: "a surge of global terrorism against U.S. interests fueled by deepening Islamic antipathy toward the United States"; "regime-threatening instability in key Arab states"; and "major oil supply disruptions and severe strains in the Atlantic alliance."

While the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies have been widely criticized for being wrong about much of the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, the analysis Tenet describes concerning postwar scenarios seems prescient. Iraq is buffeted by brutal sectarian violence and there are suggestions that the country be partitioned into ethnic zones.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070427/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/tenet_iraq_5

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. Tenet wins the "Most Spectacular CYA" award. Gonzales won't be able to write HIS book for

thirty years or so. MKJ

[IndianaGreen]

7. Tenet's mea culpas do not exhonerate him for his own role in selling the war

Tenet and Negroponte sat behind Colin Powell when he delivered that masterpiece of WMD lies to the United Nations. I didn't see either of them jump up and stop Powell's presentation.

[Honeycombe8]

9. Here, here. Well said. NOW he speaks???? Ha! nt

[Rydz777]

2. Gosh! I didn't get Tenet's warning.

It must have been in the fine print that I failed to read.

[Roland99]

3. The press seemed to have missed out on it, too.

And now they're swiftboating Moyers for pointing that out.

[Honeycombe8]

10. So Tenet warned the very people he KNEW weren't listening?....

How so very convenient, for him to be able to sleep nights, I guess.

His explanation and mea culpa and trying to clear his name doesn't work at this late stage. He could have warned OTHERS who WOULD listen to him, w/o actually releasing secrets. He could have NOT been so pro-hawkish by standing alongside the perpetrators, when they lied about the intelligence to the American public.

Too little...too late. What a scumbag.

[Honeycombe8]

11. DON'T BUY HIS BOOK. We shouldn't give him our...

We shouldn't give him our hard earned dollars in order to give him even more millions, for this rubbish he's spewing solely for the sake of trying to clear his name. He's had YEARS to speak before now.

His name is MUD.

[Vinca]

4. How do Tenet, Powell and most of the media sleep at night?? nt

[Roland99]

5. Because no one is holding indictments or lawsuits over their heads.

[Zorra]

6. These are not "worse case scenarios". They are the obvious logical

outcome of foolish actions taken by ignorant, arrogant, shortsighted people with absolutely no expertise and talent for governing.

2+2=4.

[ShortnFiery]

8. I despise people such as Tenet and Powell more than the Neo-Cons.

At least we KNOW where the right wing nut cases are coming from. :shrug:

But placing one's career over their oath to our beloved Constitution, IMO, is unforgivable. :grr:

[rhett o rick]

12. Agree. But their are a number of democratic leaders that have done the same. nm

[rhett o rick]

13. Tenet warned Bush he was an idiot. Wonder why that didn't work. nm

[duhneece]

14. I agree with everyone above AND I'm still glad to read Tenet point to truth

I agree he's guilty at some degree and don't buy his book, AND I am still glad to hear another voice (however guilty)tell the truth (at least what i read here compared to Greenwald's "Uncovered: The truth...")