tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post8028311272887360717..comments2024-01-04T07:21:18.243-05:00Comments on John In Carolina: Krauthammer & the inventive TenetUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-44746744470272835142007-05-13T11:58:00.000-04:002007-05-13T11:58:00.000-04:00sounds interestingsounds interestingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-77835241321377371012007-05-13T07:29:00.000-04:002007-05-13T07:29:00.000-04:00I worked for both Army Intelligence and the Naval ...I worked for both Army Intelligence and the Naval Investigative Service during the years 1962-95 and had frequent contact with the CIA. They always impressed me as a bunch of elitist ivy-leaguers who wouldn't know the first thing about real intelligence operations. I recall during the late 70's, our Army sources were telling us the Soviet Uniion was internally in turmoil and it looked likely to self-destruct. CIA poo-pooed us and told us the USSR was stronger then than at any time in the past. We all know what happened. Fast forward to the nineties. The CIA was the lead agency in the US and they were the ones pushing the WMD argument right up until the invasion. Of course, virtually every other nation's intelligence service agreed that Saddam had the WMDs, but if the CIA is so bloody capable, why didn't they see through the myth, and why did Tenet say there were WMDs before he said there were no WMDs? That sounds vaguely familiar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-4661519286710434682007-05-12T20:54:00.000-04:002007-05-12T20:54:00.000-04:00I think those who claim they were misled about the...I think those who claim they were misled about the war and their subsequent yes vote are admitting they are incompetent. They are trying to convince me that they trusted a man they claim stole the election from them without doing any investigation of the subject on their own. The Dem presidential candidates have access to all kinds of info that the public does not. I heard Howard Fineman on the Imus show after the Iowa caucusses in 2003 say, "Dick Gephardt looked me straight in the eye and said,'I saw the same info as the President and on that basis I voted for the war in Iraq". This was during Howard Dean's surge and Gephardt was implying that the governor's antiwar popularity was based on insufficient information. Now everyone wants to claim they trusted and were misled by a cunning president. Fine. If the Democratic party wants to claim innocence because they were misled, we should point out they are incompetents who do not think for themselves and are therefore unfit to rule.<BR/> Brant JonesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-3210936070874611572007-05-12T19:26:00.000-04:002007-05-12T19:26:00.000-04:00I think Tenet's memoirs is the scale of Browns of...I think Tenet's memoirs is the scale of Browns of FEMA during the Katrina event.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com