I may be a cold hearted SOB, but in my humble opinion, this is Tenet’s attempt to “clear his name” or somehow absolve himself of the 3400+ lives lost on failed intelligence, lies and his personal lack of courage where telling the President that he’s wrong on the “yellow cake” crap was…crap. He didn’t, like all those that surround the President, they feel their job is to tell the President what he wants to hear, not what he should hear for the good of our country. Tenet is not going to be successful, when oversight nails Bush/Cheney and Condi on their manipulation of intelligence for their rush to war, Tenet, despite his desperate attempt to seek clemency will go down in history as yet another incompetent enabler of the worst administration and President in our history.

George Tenet has a very mixed legacy. On the one hand, he presided over the two biggest intelligence failures of this era-9/11 and the WMD debacle in Iraq. On the other hand, his CIA did devise and carry out brilliantly an astonishingly bold plan to overthrow the Taliban in Afghanistan. Tenet might have just left it at that, gone home with his Presidential Medal of Freedom and let history judge him.

Instead, he’s decided to do some judging of his own. In his just-released book and in hawking it on television, Tenet presents himself as a pathetic victim and scapegoat of an administration that was hell-bent on going to war, slam dunk or not.

Tenet writes as if he assumes no one remembers anything. For example: “There was never a serious debate that I know of within the administration about the imminence of the Iraqi threat.”