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| Tenet won't spill guts yet |
| 2005-03-03 |
| Seems that former spymaster George Tenet won't be rushing his story of running the CIA under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to print. Insiders say he's decided to defer the deal with Crown Books, worth nearly $5 million, until after he has more time to pull his thoughts together. Publishers engaged in a wild bidding war to get his story of the CIA before and after 9/11, with Crown eventually winning and asking that the book be ready for the presses later this year. But we learn that Tenet didn't want to be tied to a firm deadline. What's more, he's been extremely busy traveling around the country giving speeches, preparing for his first teaching gig at Georgetown University and mulling the creation of his own worldwide consulting firm. Crown probably knew something was up: Tenet never signed the advance contract. "He's just not ready to write it yet," said our source, "and he needs time to think about it." In the meantime, Crown keeps the money. But not forever. Tenet still plans to complete the project. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 He'll keep cogitating and deferring until the project fades away quietly. Already nobody except his future unemployed CIA groupies and a few Bush-haters expect to find anything useful in his words, ie something that can be used to pound Bush and his coterie. When even the editor of Der Spiegel writes that Bush was right all along, how will it reflect on Tenet should he try to demonstrate otherwise? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-03-03 10:34:40 PM |
| #1 Definitely playing for time. He needs time to see how the Bush Doctrine plays out, how Hillary's chances look for 2008, and how he can spin his amazingly inept and failed tenure into a success. He is on the hook for so many botched decisions and policies - if he has 2 neurons to rub together, he'll lay it off on the Clinton Admin's disastrous policies and decisions, from keeping the NorKies afloat while they screwed Clinton, to the insane separation between intel and enforcement, to missing golden opportunities to grab OBL before he killed almost 3000 Americans. The list is very long and distinguished. Iran may turn out to be the crown jewel of his failures. W should've fired his ass on Jan 21, 2000. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-03-03 2:16:43 AM |