[ExI] "Atlas Shrugged" film review

[Jeff Davis]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:01 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>>See George Tenet, ...

Sorry, spike, but I have to go with Samantha on this.  For his part,
Tenet is completely without credibility.  After 9/11, Bush kept him on
as CIA chief.  Excellent move on Bush's part.  Not cashiering Tenet --
in effect "buying" Tenet -- made him a locked-in Bush loyalist,
important, because at the time, everyone in the Bush Cabal was a
candidate to take the fall for letting 9/11 happen.  Tenet had told
Bush that, regarding Bin Laden, "...the system was flashing red..."
Had he been fired, Tenet as former intel chief, could have ripped Bush
a new one by detailing how Bush had turned his back on his R2P the US.
 Tenet was lick-spittle from then on regarding whatever Cheney (ie
Bush) wanted.

Everyone at the CIA at the time was saying "No way. Saddam didn't do
9/11.  And Saddam has no connections to al Quaida.  And ***there's no
evidence*** Saddam has WMD's or even a WMD program.

Despite pressure from the VP, the CIA's unhelpfulness was clear.
Cheney, knowing what was needed, and recognizing early on the
difficulty with the CIA, went around the problem.  He set up The
Office of Special Plans and simply cooked up the "intelligence" needed
to implement his policy (of regime change/war with Iraq).  Remember
the Downing Street Memo:  "...the intelligence is being fixed around
the policy..."

It was all a pack of lies.

"Everyone knew" that Saddam had WMDs only because everyone had been
told what to "know".  If you were out of the intelligence loop, you
were told by the corporate media.  Those in the loop were told by the
incestuous sharing of intelligence.

Tenet was Bush's bitch, just as Bush was Cheney's, and the whole damn
US govt is the Likudnik's.

Tenet was, and is, all "implausible deniability".

Ancient history.

"Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

Best, Jeff Davis

 "During times of universal deceit, telling the
  truth becomes a revolutionary act."
                  George Orwell