Officers: Ex-CIA chief Tenet a 'failed' leader

[Poiuyt]

CNN reporting on Larry Johnson's letter to Tenet. I assumed the letter would go nowhere.

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(CNN) -- In a letter written Saturday to former CIA Director George Tenet, six former CIA officers described their former boss as "the Alberto Gonzales of the intelligence community," and called his book "an admission of failed leadership."

The writers said Tenet has "a moral obligation" to return the Medal of Freedom he received from President Bush.

They also called on him to give more than half the royalties he gets from book, "At the Center of the Storm," to U.S. soldiers wounded in Iraq and families of the dead. (Watch Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice talk about Tenet's book)

The letter, signed by Phil Giraldi, Ray McGovern, Larry Johnson, Jim Marcinkowski, Vince Cannistraro and David MacMichael, said Tenet should have resigned in protest rather than take part in the administration's buildup to the war.

more -

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/29/tenet.letter/index.html

For full letter:

http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/04/letter_to_georg.html

[panader0]

1. Amen. I just watched him on 60 Mins and was disgusted.........

[aquart]

2. I just kept yelling at the screen.

[NI4NI]

3. Did I hear Tenet correctly

Did he say that he let his aides look over the SOTU mushroom cloud speech first, and then were supposed to get back to him if something in it was wrong?

[Poiuyt]

4. That's what he said

[NI4NI]

5. Damn!

Delegating responsibilities is one thing, but direlection of duty is another.