Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Taking Apart Tenet

George Tenet's disgraceful new book. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

The money quote:
To revisit these arguments is to be reminded that no thinking person ever felt that the danger posed by a totalitarian and aggressive Iraq was a negligible one. And now comes Tenet, the man who got everything wrong and who ran the agency that couldn't think straight, to ask us to sympathize with his moanings about "Iraq—who, me?"
It makes me believe the U.S. would best be served by abolishing the CIA (and the State Department for that matter) and replacing it with something more... competent.