Apr 29 2007
Alberto Gonzales of the intelligence community
I watched the 60 Minutes segment with George Tenet tonight. I was not very impressed. Neither, it seems, were several of the officers who served under him…
In a letter written Saturday to former CIA Director George Tenet, six former CIA officers described their former boss as “the Alberto Gonzales of the intelligence community,” and called his book “an admission of failed leadership.”
The writers said Tenet has “a moral obligation” to return the Medal of Freedom he received from President Bush.
They also called on him to give more than half the royalties he gets from book, “At the Center of the Storm,” to U.S. soldiers wounded in Iraq and families of the dead.
The letter, signed by Phil Giraldi, Ray McGovern, Larry Johnson, Jim Marcinkowski, Vince Cannistraro and David MacMichael, said Tenet should have resigned in protest rather than take part in the administration’s buildup to the war. (Read the full letter)
And the quote of the day…
“It now turns out that you were the Alberto Gonzales of the intelligence community — a grotesque mixture of incompetence and sycophancy shielded by a genial personality.”
I never thought that George Tenet’s personality was all that genial. Oh, well.
