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| "Was that a storm that just went by?" |
| 2007-05-06 |
| Douglas Feith, Wall Street Journal Another review of George Tenet's CYA book. EFL'd top get to the good part. Mr. Tenet makes a peculiar claim of detachment, as if he had not been a top official in the Bush administration. He wants readers not to blame him for the president's decision to invade Iraq. He implies that he never supported it and never even heard it debated. Mr. Tenet writes: "In many cases, we were not aware of what our own government was trying to do. The one thing we were certain of was that our warnings were falling on deaf ears." . . . But even if it were true that he never heard any such debate and was seriously dissatisfied with the dialogue in the White House Situation Room, he had hundreds of opportunities to improve the discussion by asking questions or making comments. I sat with him in many of the meetings, and no one prevented him from talking. It is noteworthy that Mr. Tenet met with the president for an intelligence briefing six days every week for years. Why didn't he speak up if he thought that the president was dangerously wrong or inadequately informed? One of Mr. Tenet's main arguments is that he was somehow disconnected from the decision to go to war. Under the circumstances, it seems odd that he would call his book "At the Center of the Storm." He should have called it "At the Periphery of the Storm" or maybe: "Was That a Storm That Just Went By?" Mr. Feith was undersecretary of defense for policy from July 2001 to August 2005. He is a professor at Georgetown University and the author of the forthcoming memoir "War and Decision" (HarperCollins). |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #1 Ouch! Well, I look forward to Tenet's review of Feith's book! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-05-06 07:59 |