OMG Tenet never talked to Bush during August!!

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

Just admitted!

[k in IA]

1. * needed his month vacation - my God, he had been working for

7 months (on and off). The world should just shut down while W takes a break.

[central scrutinizer]

24. c'mon get with the program

If Tenet and * didn't meet, then it obviously is Tenet's fault, since our God-anointed, strong, unfaltering leader has never made a mistake. You can almost write tomorrow's headlines - CIA and FBI asleep at the helm, * blameless. And if it isn't Tenet's fault, then somehow Clinton's penis is at fault.

[aquart]

37. But didn't Bush SAY they were meeting all the time?????

[mikey_1962]

2. Tenet only meet with Clinton twice.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. You gotta...

Independent source for that? That sounds awful fishy.

[Bozita]

5. delete please

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. Mikey_1962 is posting quite a bit of unsubstantiated claims lately.

*

[maddezmom]

18. been a lot of that going on around here lately

:)

[Mountainman]

23. It shows you how desperate they are getting

They are constantly on the defensive now so they need to make up "facts" to attack Clinton. Never take responsibility just blame Clinton.

Hey you all, Clinton isn't president, anymore get over it!

[htuttle]

4. That's an outright lie

They met all the time.

[mikey_1962]

13. I wonder who had more meetings....

Tenet or Monica.

[zbdent]

14. hey mikey, at least BC could hold an intelligent conference call

while receiving a BJ (well, according to your sources).

Your bud couldn't sit on a sofa and concentrate on eating a pretzel without being too distracted by the TV.

[maddezmom]

16. LOL

was just about to post the "pretzel" incident.

[Thione1n]

26. HEY FREEPER!

Don't you have better things to do with your time than post on a board full of people who are politically opposed to you, and your ideas, and your candidates?

If I were you, I'd shut my mouth and sit back and LEARN, instead of wasting my time with blind support of an administration that will do NOTHING to benefit me.

[Carolina]

34. freep alert

freep alert, freep alert, freep alert .... :evilfrown:

[aquart]

36. Mikey, it doesn't matter if he had them both at once.

Bill was doing his job with intelligence and diligent attention. More than anyone can ever say about George.

[songwright]

25. It may not be a 'lie' per se . . .

It could be that he uses Rush Limbaugh as his authoritative 'source'. ;)

SW

BTW - Hello All, just found this site from a link on Michal Moore's page. Looks like a place where I might be comfortable.

[daveropeswing]

27. Welcome

Dont know if im first....

But Welcome to DU...

My favorite place for truth and discussion...


mq

[Rufus T. Firefly]

7. But last night Smirk said

"As a matter of fact, I was dealing with terrorism a lot as the President when George Tenet came in to brief me," referring to the August PDB.

So I guess his month-long vacation was directly related to us being unprepared for 9/11.

[Seldona]

11. Have you been reading Newsmax?

A quick Google search turned up this outright LIE.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/28/131128.shtml

And yet in the 60 minutes interview with Richard Clarke, Clarke stated that the heads of the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI, were reqiured to meet at the Whitehouse everyday or every other to report what their agency had done in the war against Al Qaida.

*edit nevermind. :)

[EndElectoral]

17. Meeting at White House

Clarke was at the White House working, as I am sure Tenet was also available. But where was George?

You can't exactly be at a daily meeting in the White House when you're on vacation most of the time in Crawford Texas.

I just wodner how much longer Tenet is going to keep falling on his sword for this jerk we have as a President.

[mouse7]

12. Gee, you seen to be quick to defend right wing causes

The world wonders why.

[gandalf]

19. I heard that too

in a German television piece, high-reputation public station. According to that, Clinton was not very interested in hearing the intelligenc community. I think a Washington insider said that in an interview, don't remember who.

[KoKo]

22. I think you are referring to Clinton meeting with FBI in last year of his

administration. He was being investigated by FBI for Monica and that's why he didn't meet with him. This was reported yesterday out of the 9/11 hearings when Matthews and Slimeman did their dialog.

[gandalf]

31. no

I referred to Tenet during the Clinton years. However, as I mentioned, I have no other source than this one interview, which is not much.

[leftynyc]

21. AHHH - the old Clinton's Penis did it defense

Wonder where you get your news from. Also, do you have a source for that or did it come straight from Rush's mouth?

[Eurobabe]

6. I am surprised more people aren't tuning into this?

I could not believe my ears when I heard Tenet say that he did not speak to Chimp in August until September. Unfrickinbelievable.

How much press will THIS admission generate?

[vetwife]

10. Sure got my attention !

Texas...Washington..No princples meeting pdb?
Bush is lying ! surprise surprise

[TeeYiYi]

20. I wonder why . . .

. . . this commission to uncover the reasons behind the most heinous crime on our soil is not being broadcast on a local television network. ABC, NBC, CBS or even PBS. I don't have cable so I've been streaming c-span. Sadly, there are many households in America that don't have a computer, or if they do own one, they lack the knowledge to stream these proceedings. Not everyone can afford to pay for cable either. I'm willing to bet that if they were being broadcast locally, the people would be tuning in.

TYY

[songwright]

29. And it is especially surprising . . .

since these hearings are so damaging to Dubya's credibility, you would think our 'Liberal Media' would be all over them like stink on . . . Sean Hannity

SW

[TeeYiYi]

30. Stink on SH . . .

. . . that's hilarious. Notice that SH's initials bring you halfway there to the truly huge piece of SHIT that he is.
Welcome to DU songwright! :thumbsup:

TYY

[vetwife]

32. Anone hear that Gorelick is resigning? I think that is her name

Asscrcack did that to her by singleing her our yesterday !
Hipocritical Weasel.

[nomatrix]

33. Jamie Gorelick and "the wall"

http://www.democrats.com/

WASHINGTON, April 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.) released the following statement:

"Yesterday, a 1995 memo written by 9/11 Commission Member Jamie Gorelick, in her former role as the second in command at the Justice Department, revealed her actions in establishing the heightened 'wall' prohibiting the sharing of intelligence information and criminal information. Scrutiny of this policy lies at the heart of the Commission's work. Ms. Gorelick has an inherent conflict of interest as the author of this memo and as a government official at the center of the events in questions. Thus, I believe the Commission's work and independence will be fatally damaged by the continued participation of Ms. Gorelick as a Commissioner. Reluctantly, I have come to the conclusion that Ms. Gorelick should resign from this Commission.

"The Commission's Guidelines on Recusals state, 'Commissioners and staff will recuse themselves from investigating work they performed in prior government service.' Commissioner Gorelick's memo directing a policy that 'go(es) beyond what is legally required' indicates that her judgment and actions as the Deputy Attorney General in the Reno Justice Department are very much in question before the Commission. Indeed Attorney General Ashcroft called this DOJ policy, 'the single greatest structural cause for September 11 ... (and) embraced flawed legal reasoning.' Commissioner Gorelick is in the unfair position of trying to address the key issue before the Commission when her own actions are central to the events at issue. The public cannot help but ask legitimate questions about her motives.

"While it is regrettable that this conflict had not come to light sooner, this Commission's work and forthcoming recommendations are too important to be questioned in this way, and may be devalued by Ms. Gorelick's continued participation as a Commissioner. Given Ms. Gorelick's work as the Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno, Ms. Gorelick can be quite valuable to the Commission's work preparing 'a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.' However, that contribution should come as a witness before the Commission - not as a member."

[JohnOneillsMemory]

8. Imagine last night's press conf. if Tenet had already been grilled. n/t

[maddezmom]

15. Tenet's under oath, bush* is free to lie and spread propaganda

[Bozita]

28. The Washington Times is the first to publish this blockbuster

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040414-110312-5542r.htm

Tenet did not see Bush in Aug. 2001


WASHINGTON, April 14 (UPI) -- CIA Director George Tenet told the Sept. 11 commission he did not see President Bush once in August 2001, the month before the massive terror attacks.

"In this time period I'm not talking to him, no," Tenet said in response to questions from Commissioner Tim Roemer.

Tenet said he did not pass along information he received about Zacarias Moussaoui, who was attending flight school in Minnesota to the president or his staff.

more...

[ComerPerro]

35. This is very good for Bush, believe it or not

They will just pin this on Tenet. Apparently this administration has not problems with alienating and outright declaring war on our intelligence agencies.

And, of course, the fucking stupid public will buy it.

"It is Tenet's fault for not meeting with Bush..."

They will pull this shit off the same way they are currently blaming the FBI.

Why do you think they kept Tenet around?

It was so they could blame him, and, even better, blame Clinton.