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  • Tenet is Mr. X, and will presumably be indicted on the substantive espionage/leak issues.

    Think Progress » BREAKING: CBS To Report Fitzgerald Will Make His Decision Known Tomorrow 2005

  • He wouldn't have given Tenet a medal if Tenet is to blame for this entire mess.

    11/25/2005 2005

  • George Tenet is then reported to have said "It's a slam dunk!"

    Balkinization 2004

  • Failure was not a word Tenet could bring himself to utter.

    The Trouble with the CIA Powers, Thomas 2002

  • George Tenet is just the latest to join this blame game, which began more than three years ago when his fellow Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Tommy Franks told Bob Woodward that Douglas Feith, the Pentagon’s intelligence bozo, was the “stupidest guy on the face of the earth” (that’s the expurgated version).

    Sunday Reading 2007

  • Tenet is no stranger to opprobrium (his reputation will never recover from his telling Bush that the evidence on WMD was a "slam dunk"), but the verdict of his subordinates in State of War is particularly withering. (

    01/02/2006 2006

  • "After all, George Tenet is still running the C.I.A. after the biggest intelligence failures since some Trojan ignored Cassandra's chatter and said," Roll the horse in. "

    Archive 2004-05-01 2004

  • "After all, George Tenet is still running the C.I.A. after the biggest intelligence failures since some Trojan ignored Cassandra's chatter and said," Roll the horse in. "

    Quote of the Day 2004

  • As Alterman tries to figure out which fall George Tenet is taking as he takes Al Gore's advice ... a) “I screwed up on 9/11” fall?

    Archive 2004-06-01 2004

  • "After all, George Tenet is still running the C.I.A. after the biggest intelligence failures since some Trojan ignored Cassandra's chatter and said," Roll the horse in. "

    1000 words aren't needed... 2004

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