Need anymore proof of the lies inside George Tenets book? How about a biggie:
THE WEEKLY STANDARD has now learned of a second, more stunning error in Tenet’s book (which is due to appear in bookstores tomorrow). According to Michiko Kakutani’s review in Saturday’s Times,
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.
I have a feeling we will be getting a lot more of these kind of finds in the weeks ahead. Politics politics politics. Tenet is doing nothing more then trying to cover his ass for his horrible performance as head of the CIA, and doing a typically horrible job of that.
Previous post on Tenet here.
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Heh…and to think I was going to tell you about this, by way of Dean Barnett. Shoulda known you were on top of things.
I do my best =)