Mason4Assassin444 wrote:
After reading the former CIA directors book I have a question.
WHy isn't Tenet, Bush, Cheney, Condi, and Rumsfeld in jail right now?
Its rumored Tenet made 3 million in writing this book. It seems to me he has incriminated himself within its pages along with the people I mentioned. If it were you or me, we'd be in Gitmo right now.
Tenet is an arrogant prick. He does make some disturbing revelations, but he's such a cunt about it. I saw an interview with him on 60 Minutes where he was dripping with self-righteousness. Hell, he'd give Michael Moore a run for his money in that department.
Unfortunately, he's typical of the kind of people in the upper levels of our government: hawkish, powerhungry, and without much of a conscience. Then again, how else do you get that far in government? You have to stab so many backs and grease so many palms that we've even managed to create a book market for it.
Admittedly, much of it is entertaining to read, if a bit morbid in its implications.
Overall, what Tenet seems to suggest is that the buildup to the Iraq War involved molding evidence in favor of invasion, rather than exploring the facts and coming up with an objective conclusion.
But see... "Intelligence" work is largely political, as is much of science. Adherence to strict rationalism is rare in general and even rarer in government. We don't make enemies, we make wars. Terrorism is the perfect excuse for the government to exploit the public's ignorance and paranoia, and it works everytime. Just find an easy target or likely candidate.
We might see a lot of opposition to the Iraq War now, but look back a few years and see how much of the population mindlessly beat the drums for war. Look at the complicity of the media and how it silenced skeptics of the WMD argument. Now, a few years later, it shamelessly does the same routine but with the opposite goal in mind: ending the war.
Essentially, Tenet saw an opportunity, and he acted on it -- just like he did with Iraq and his support for the Patriot Act. His book wouldn't have been so profitable in mid-2003.
