MetaFilter posts tagged with Tenet

"I don't talk about techniques"

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:30:17 -0800

In a new article in the Washington Post: "The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects". These documents were requested by then CIA director George Tenet, who told 60 Minutes last year (in conjuction with the publication of his book, In the Center of the Storm), ""The image that's been portrayed is, we sat around the campfire and said, 'Oh, boy, now we go get to torture people.' Well, we don't torture people. Let me say that again to you. We don't torture people. Okay?"

Porter Goss Resigns at CIA

digaman — Fri, 05 May 2006 11:12:01 -0800

Newsfilter: CIA director Porter Goss resigns. After taking some of the ~~fall~~ heat for bad intelligence in the months before 9/11, Cheney's "cat's paw" finally gets out of the kitchen.

Medal of Freedom for Iraq

jim-of-oz — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 08:47:25 -0800

Medals of Freedom awarded and I'd like to make some smart comment about current Iraqi conditions and the award and the presenter, but why bother - make your own.

Tenet Resigns

zedzebedia — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 08:25:49 -0800

George Tenet resigns as CIA director.

Iraq Lacked Atom Whack

y2karl — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:43:26 -0800

At least four times in the fall of 2002, the president and his advisers invoked the specter of a "mushroom cloud," and some of them, including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, described Iraq's nuclear ambitions as a threat to the American homeland... Among the closely held internal judgments of the Iraq Survey Group, overseen by David Kay as special representative of CIA Director George J. Tenet, are that Iraq's nuclear weapons scientists did no significant arms-related work after 1991, that facilities with suspicious new construction proved benign, and that equipment of potential use to a nuclear program remained under seal or in civilian industrial use.

So in regards to Iraq's possession of the one weapon we can be certain causes mass destruction: the atomic bomb, as Gregg Easterbrook put it, the verdict is the unsurprising (and unsurprisingly closely held) nope, not, zero, zip, nada...