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Tenet, in bashing Bush on Iraq, admits a key point that justified the invasion
As I’ve said before in re George Tenet, President Bush, following his characteristic modus operandi, gave his enemy a backrub (by keeping the sneaky-looking Clintonite on as CIA director); then his enemy stabbed him in the back (by allowing anti-administration subversion to thrive within the CIA and by giving Bush disastrous advice on Iraq); then Bush gave his enemy another backrub (by awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom soon after he stepped down from the CIA, perhaps in the hope that Tenet would not turn against the president for letting him go); and then his enemy stabbed him in the back again (by publishing a book attacking Bush’s Iraq policy).
The latest twist in this saga, brought out by Thomas Joscelyn at the Weekly Standard and quoted at length by Melanie Phillips at her Diary, is that Tenet’s treason against Bush may have backfired. As Phillips writes, although Tenet “claims that Bush exaggerated the relationship between Saddam and al Qaeda, he says nevertheless that it did exist.” Email entry |