Christopher Hitchens: "George Tenet's Sniveling, Self-Justifying New Book is a Disgrace. (HT: Michelle Malkin)
William Kristol reports on Tenet's serious memory problems here.
Michael Ledeen has little good to say about Tenet or the CIA. Concerning a meeting that Tenet reports on in his book which Ledeen attended, Ledeen:
His account is repeatedly wrong. He is wrong about the Iranians, wrong about the Americans, wrong about what was discussed, and wrong about the official status of the meeting.
On a more positive side, and the failure of the MSM to report it, read on (from Cliff May) :
The controversy over Tenet’s book is instructive. As Brit Hume has pointed out, the most consequential point that the former CIA director made is that
“enhanced interrogation” is not a euphemism for torture and that it may be the most important weapon we have in this war. The MSM is not much interested. How many people who get their news from the major dailies and network TV are likely to know this, much less have read/hear a debate over its implications?
Surely, it also is of huge importance that Tenet acknowledged that the Intelligence Community did indeed believe that Saddam continued to stockpile WMD. In other words, this was not, as has been alleged over and over, a “lie” Bush told based on “cherry-picking intelligence” or revisionist analysis of raw data by Doug Feith and his shop.
But here again, the MSM is yawning and the headlines are instead about whether or not Tenet was a “scapegoat” and how he "regrets" saying "slam-dunk" for reasons that are murky at best.
The performance of most of the MSM on the most serious issues of recent years has been pitiful. But who in the MSM is going to write that story?