Tuesday, May 01, 2007

George Tenet Invention?

Questions about the validity of George Tenet’s book “At the Center of the Storm” is already surfacing. Bill Kristol is reporting on some questionable accounts in the book. The most notable is
On the day after 9/11, he [Tenet] adds, he ran into Richard Perle, a leading neoconservative and the head of the Defense Policy Board, coming out of the White House. He says Mr. Perle turned to him and said: "Iraq has to pay a price for what happened yesterday. They bear responsibility."
Here's the problem: Richard Perle was in France on that day, unable to fly back after September 11. In fact Perle did not return to the United State until September
15. Did Tenet perhaps merely get the date of this encounter wrong? Well, the quote Tenet ascribes to Perle hinges on the encounter taking place September 12: "Iraq has to pay a price for what happened yesterday." And Perle in any case categorically denies to THE WEEKLY STANDARD ever having said any such thing to Tenet, while coming out of the White House or anywhere else.

One wonders what other incidents have Tenet invented. Wanna bet that people are going to go through his book with a fine-toothed comb? Of course, the Dinosaur Media won’t be reporting on any of his fictional accounts.

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