Well the votes are in ... Sorry George, No Sale !

I watched the George Tenet interview on PBS the other night and I guess being the eternal optimist that I am, I actually thought that somewhere in all the fluff and posturing there might be a kernel of truth to gleaned, a nugget that when dug out and cleaned up and polished might actually tell us something that we didn't already know. (When will I learn !)

What I saw was a pathetic attempt by another one of the Bush/Cheney criminal cabal's inner circle trying desperately to rewrite history and rehabilitate his image by blaming everyone else in the Whitehouse with the possible exception of the chef. But since I haven't read the book, I can't say with a degree of certainty that the chef is out of the woods yet.

As I watched his herky jerky motions and his wild eyed ranting, I couldn't help thinking that he reminded me more of a speed freak or some kind of crack head trying to convince the local cops that he wasn't high and he would never even think of touching the stuff, while sweating profusely and rocking from side to side!

Evidently I wasn't the only one who was not impressed with his performance.
While zipping around the virtual world, as is my habit every night, I came across the following on the Thinkprogress.org website ..

An open letter to George Tenet,

written by group of former CIA and other intelligence officials, urges the former CIA Director “to dedicate a significant portion of his royalties to soldiers and families of those killed or wounded in Iraq.” They write:

"Mr. Tenet, you cannot undo what has been done. It is doubly sad that you seem still to lack an adequate appreciation of the enormous amount of death and carnage you have facilitated. If reflection on these matters serves to prick your conscience we encourage you to donate at least half of the royalties from your book sales to the veterans and their families, who have paid and are paying the price for your failure to speak up when you could have made a difference. That would be the decent and honorable thing to do."

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Bill is a member of the post war ‘baby boom’ after WWII, and came of age during the civil rights struggle of the 50’s and 60’s, and the Vietnam War soon thereafter. The assassination of Jack Kennedy made a huge impact on him and his doubts about the ‘official’ explanation launched him into a lifelong search for the truth which has taken him down many paths, from Zen Buddhism to a two year study of the Koran at the Islamic Center in Wash. DC . In 1984 this self proclaimed ‘intellectual atheist’ had what could only be described as profound ‘Damascus Road’ experience which was to change his spiritual life forever. With the advent of the internet, his search really went into high gear, and after 911, it accelerated even more. Now living in rural Alaska with his best friend ‘Buddy’ (his red nosed pit-bull) he has traded a career as a computer consultant for simpler way of life and when he’s not hunting, fishing, or chopping firewood for the wood stove, he continues this search, peeling back the layers of the onion and shining in the light of the truth and watching the enemy squirm.