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NEWS ABOUT: George Tenet

George Tenet stories: 11 news summaries

CIA Chiefs Ask Obama to Scrap Interrogation Probe

Disclosure of CIA methods will help the enemy, decrease national security, former directors warn

Sep 18, 09 3:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Seven former CIA directors—appointees of both political parties—are calling on the Obama administration to call off the Justice Department’s investigation of Bush-era interrogation practices, the Hill reports. The probe, ordered by AG Eric Holder, will reveal too much about the CIA’s methods in an environment where... More »

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CIA • torture • Attorney General • George Tenet • Michael Hayden • interrogation • James Schlesinger • interrogation techniques • Porter J. Goss • interrogations • Porter Goss • Eric Holder • James Woolsey • Obama administration • William Webster • John Deutch

Judge: CIA Used Fraud to
Get Wiretap Case Dismissed

Orders Tenet to explain misleading actions on wiretap suit

Jul 21, 09 9:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - US District Judge Royce Lamberth released hundreds of secret filings yesterday, saying the CIA falsely claimed that state secrets were involved in a 15-year-old wiretapping lawsuit, McClatchy reports. The agency allowed the judge to continue believing that an agent involved in the case was undercover, when in reality that cover... More »

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CIA • George Tenet • federal courts • lawsuit • wiretap • undercover • Leon Panetta • wiretapping • U.S. District Court • Royce Lamberth

(Newser) - Not only was the CIA's “targeted killing” program an “open secret,” but there's also “less to it than meets the eye,” Robert Baer writes for Time. The former intelligence officer notes that the Washington Post broke the story in 2001, and a New York Times... More »

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Congress • Dick Cheney • CIA • George Tenet • assassination • Robert Baer • al-Qaeda • Leon Panetta • targeted killing

Tenet Denies Drunken Rant About 'the Jews'

Pressured CIA chief spilled fears to Saudi prince

Dec 18, 08 2:28 PM CST
(Newser) - George Tenet is vehemently denying a report in a new book that the then-CIA director railed against Bush administration neocons, "referring to them with exaxperation [sic] as, 'the Jews,'" the Atlantic reports. The incident took place in Saudi Prince Bandar's pool after Tenet downed half a bottle of... More »

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CIA • Jews • George Tenet • Prince Bandar bin Sultan • drunk • CIA director • Patrick Tyler • Israeli lobby • neoconservatives

ANALYSIS

Obama's In for an Awkward
CIA Transition

His tough campaign rhetoric sets tone as left looks for change

Dec 3, 08 12:08 PM CST
(Newser) - On the campaign trail, Barack Obama frequently railed against the CIA’s secret jails and harsh interrogation techniques. Now, he must lead the agency, and the transition’s already proving rocky, the New York Times reports. Liberal outcry derailed his rumored pick for director, John Brennan. Brennan was chief... More »

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Barack Obama • CIA • George Tenet • secret prisons • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • President Obama • John Brennan

OPINION

CIA Obstructed 9/11 Inquiry, Commission Heads Charge

Destroying tapes at odds with probe

Jan 2, 08 9:50 AM CST
(Newser) - By withholding and ultimately destroying videotapes of the interrogation of al-Qaeda detainees, the CIA willfully obstructed the 9/11 commission, its top two members charge in today’s New York Times. Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton say the CIA repeatedly stonewalled their investigation in 2003-04, answering questions vaguely, denying access to... More »

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CIA • George Tenet • detainee • 9/11 commission • Thomas Kean • interrogation techniques • CIA videotapes • Lee Hamilton • al-Qaeda

Curveball's
True Identity
Comes to Light

Iraqi informant lied about WMDs for green card, 60 Minutes says

Nov 2, 07 5:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Curveball, the Iraqi informant whose tall tales of mass weaponry helped push the US to war, has been identified by 60 Minutes as a lousy student—not the brilliant chemical engineer he claimed to be—who lied through his teeth to get his green card. This week's show names him... More »

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Iraq • Germany • George Tenet • Curveball

Tenet Just Didn't Get It

IG report says ex-director knew
about Qaeda threat
but didn't respond

Aug 21, 07 2:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - George Tenet’s CIA failed to stifle the al-Qaeda threat in the months leading up to 9/11, an internal report found by the agency's Inspector General found. A summary released today found the former director’s attention to methodology eclipsed his focus on strategy, the Times reports, in a... More »

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War on Terror • CIA • George Tenet • September 11 • al-Qaeda

Woodward, Tenet Form Perfect Storm
of Ego

Whine over who wronged whom

May 15, 07 7:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Once upon a time, former CIA director George Tenet and superstar political reporter Bob Woodward were friendly, but now they're locked in an ego battle too degrading to produce any winners. The New Yorker this month gives each space to snipe at the other and explores what the whinefest means... More »

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CIA • George Tenet • news • Bob Woodward • reporter

Tenet Earns
Big Bucks off
War Profiteers

Former CIA chief finds
a pot of gold in the center of the storm

May 7, 07 9:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former CIA boss George Tenet has made a killing off companies profiting in Iraq, Salon reports—one fact undisclosed in his recent tell-all screed. Besides a reported $4 mil advance for the book, Tenet used his spook cred to win spots on corporate boards in a national security industry he... More »

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national security • CIA • intelligence • George Tenet • business • privatization

Ex-CIA Chief Blasts Cheney

Tenet's new book says "there was never serious debate" about going to war in Iraq

Apr 27, 07 8:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - George Tenet offers a scathing attack on Dick Cheney and other architects of the war in Iraq in a new book to be released Monday, the New York Times reports.  The former CIA director alleges that "there was never serious debate" about whether Iraq was an imminent threat... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • War on Terror • Dick Cheney • CIA • terrorism • George Tenet • war • At the Center of the Storm • Iraq war • George W. Bush

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