George Tenet

Playing Politics With Presidential Medals

David Macaray | Posted 02.18.2012

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The day will surely come when some future president awards the Medal of Freedom to George W. Bush. It will happen. But why on earth would an ex-president need the same medal that Richard Petty got?

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How 'Curveball' Made Monkeys of U.S. Intelligence and the Bush White House

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

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The black comedy of the Iraqi defector codenamed "Curveball" that has just resurfaced tells us much about how the U.S. has made such a mess in the Mideast.

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The CIA And WMDs: A Discussion Of The Damning Evidence

The New York Review of Books | Fulton Armstrong, reply by Thomas Powers | Posted 05.25.2011

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The following letter, by a former US intelligence officer, was sent in response to Thomas Powers's review of Robert Jervis's Why Intelligence Fails: L...

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'Reluctant Spy' Author John Kiriakou Reveals New Details On Zubaydah And Al Qaeda

CNN | Pam Benson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Washington (CNN) -- Just months after the 9/11 attacks, the United States appeared to have its biggest catch in the newly launched war on terror. Abu...

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The Fall Of Greg Craig

TIME | Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf | Posted 05.25.2011

Nearly 100 days after Barack Obama entered office, his top White House lawyer, Greg Craig, braced the President's senior advisers for a potentially ex...

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CIA Eavesdropping Suit: Government Agrees To Pay $3 Million

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The government has agreed to pay $3 million to a former agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration who sued CIA officers for ille...

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Judge: CIA Officials Misled Me; Unseals Secret Files

McClatchy | Michael Doyle | Posted 05.25.2011

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A federal district judge ruled Monday that the CIA repeatedly misled him in asserting that state secrets were involved in a 15-year-old lawsuit involv...

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Tenet Canceled Secret CIA Hit Teams: AP

AP | PAMELA HESS and ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — As CIA director in 2004, George Tenet terminated a secret program to develop hit teams to kill al-Qaida leaders, but his successors...

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The Moral Failure of Our National Intelligence

Scott Atran | Posted 05.25.2011

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A new government report on the Bush administration's surveillance of personal commmunications reveals a familiar pattern of intellectual deafness and moral abuse of the country.

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Cheney, Selling Cheney

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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You can't turn on your TV these days without seeing the former veep with his latest account of what they did back when they were in charge, why they did it and how wonderfully it all worked. What's up with that?

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Cheney Blames 9/11 On Richard Clarke: "He Obviously Missed It"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dick Cheney's recent and ongoing media blitz has been defined not just by the fervor with which he has defended his approach to national security affa...

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Stop the Presses: Cheney's Re-emergence Is Finally Explained!

Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nancy Pelosi, this week, accused the CIA of lying. Who, journalists collectively ask, could ever accuse the CIA of lying? Who indeed? Almost anybody, it seems to me.

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Torture Finally Broke Them

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 05.25.2011

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The truth is long overdue. We as a nation need to recognize that the tactic of coercing information does not work.

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Who Authorized The Torture of Abu Zubaydah?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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For the defendants of the use of torture by U.S. forces -- still led by former Vice President Dick Cheney -- this has been a rocky few weeks.

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Torture, Done in Our Name

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

If the rest of us are to live with ourselves, if we're to regain our own consciences, first we have to see it for what it was, and call it by its rightful name, this thing that was done in our name.

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Psycho: Bush's Willing Medical Torturers

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Simply releasing the documents about their embrace of torture has further soiled Bush and Cheney's legacy. But whether that is punishment enough is another matter.

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Meet The Real Press

Stu Kreisman | Posted 05.25.2011

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The fourth estate has abdicated its responsibilities to Stewart, Letterman, Olbermann, Maddow, Campbell Brown and the bloggers on the internet.

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Dear Dick: We Have Received Your Resume...

Jamie Malanowski | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dear Dr. Rice: This is to confirm that you will be teaching a course at The Learning Annex on Saturday, January 31st, to be entitled "Power Enabling: Smart Women, Costly Blunders.''

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A Challenge to Publishers: Say No to Gonzo

Andrew Foster Altschul | Posted 05.25.2011

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But what if the answer to publishers' problems lies not in finding the right book to publish but in finding the right book not to publish?

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The Bush Presidency: Shakespearean Tragedy or Cruel Farce?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011

Unlike earlier failed presidents like Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon, Bush does not seem to acknowledge or even recognize the destruction that he has wrought.

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George Tenet Screamed About Jews In Saudi Prince's Pool: Book

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg offers an interesting excerpt from "A World Of Trouble," a forthcoming book by Patrick Tyler on the White House and th...

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Rachel Maddow Pushes Back On Bush's Taliban Claim

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday, I talked about how President George W. Bush had made the extraordinary utterance that he had never before said that "the Taliban was elimin...

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Bush Changes Tune On Taliban

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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For a long time, one of the ancient tropes that emanated from the White House and its defenders was that at some point in the past, the Taliban was de...

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Cowardly Bush Hides Behind Laura's Skirts: Gibson Fails to Ask the Key Questions

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Although Charlie did press Bush on the Iraq War -- would he have fought it knowing there were no WMDs? -- the presence of Laura Bush during the interview did much to disarm Gibson.

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Bush's Interview wtih Charlie Gibson Marks the Start of His Effort to Revise History

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

The colossal failures of the Bush administration should be what is remembered about Bush's eight years in office, not some feeble attempt to show what a principled guy he was.

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