Four-letter Word for Tenet: Liar

Sad, about Tenet. What's even sadder is that business interests will still hire this man as a consultant or some other vague job description and pay him big bucks to lie to and for them.

Our national culture is far more corrupted by men like Tenet, not to mention Bush, Cheney, Gonzo, Rove and others, than by anything Hollywood could dish out.

Four-letter Word for Tenet: Liar - CommonDreams.org - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community:

Mercifully, the flurry of media coverage of former CIA director George Tenet hawking his memoir, “At the Center of the Storm,” has abated. Buffeted by those on both right and left who see through his lame attempt at self-justification, Tenet probably now wishes he had opted to just fade away, as old soldiers used to do.

He listened instead to his old PR buddy and “co-author” Bill Harlow who failed miserably in trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. By this point, they may be having second thoughts. But, hey, the $4 million advance is a tidy sum, even when split two ways. Aside from the money, what else could they have been thinking?

Tenet’s book is a self-indictment for the crimes with which Socrates was charged: making the worse cause appear the better, and corrupting the youth.