George Tenet

George Tenet , of her complete name George John Tenet , (January 4th 1953 -) is a former director of the CIA. According to the options idéologico-main roads, it is either resulting from a Greek family of Albania, or of Albanian origin.

It presented its resignation to the President of the United States George W. Bush the June 3rd 2004, for “personal reasons”, " , but because of the failure of the Agency to undoubtedly prevent the attacks of the September 11th, 2001 and, more recently, of the scandal of the Iraqi weapons of massive destruction.

Colin Powell had defended their existence with UNO in February 2003, on the basis of report/ratio of the CIA which appeared not very credible

Named at this station by the democratic president Bill Clinton then maintained by her republican successor George W. Bush, it was used as director of the CIA of the July 11th 1997 for the July 11th 2004, being then replaced at this station by its assistant John McLaughlin.

Pressures on the Agency by the Bush administration

The shortly after the attacks of September 11th, 2001, George Tenet indicates that it met at the White House the special adviser of the Department of Defense Richard Perle, which would have said to him in substance that Iraq was to pay for these attacks. The majority of the other persons in charge met were also obsessed by the search for bonds between Saddam Hussein and Usama Bin Laden. All sought only one pretext to attack Iraq and cash took for money the allegations of the opponent exiled Ahmed Chalabi who pushed to reverse the Iraqi dictator.

Returning on the National Estimate Intelligence of the CIA which affirmed in December 2002 that Iraq had weapons of massive destruction, Tenet indicates that the agency carried out this report/ratio in all haste in order to influence the elected officials of the American Congress and the world public opinion. He recognizes that the CIA heavily was mistaken, since no stock of weapons of massive destruction was discovered in Iraq after the fall of the mode of Saddam Hussein, but he blames on this Dick Cheney subject which made then statements going well beyond the analyzes provided by the agency of Langley, in particular on the alleged uranium which the Iraqi president would have imported of Niger to develop nuclear weapons.

It is also Dick Cheney who, according to the ex-owner of the CIA, asked as of the autumn 2001 the National Security Agency to increase the monitoring of the telephone calls and Internet concerning Iraq. As for the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, which before September 11th refused to take account of its reports/ratios alarming on the Al-Quaïda terrorist threat, she would have asked him to then in person disseminate false informations with the press to blame Iraq. In spite of the strong pressures of the falcons néoconservateurs, the CIA however always refused to affirm that bonds existed between Al Quaïda and Saddam Hussein, defends George Tenet.

Fight against Al Queda

In these memories, it indicates that the Enveloppes contaminated with the bacillus of coal sent at the end of 2001 to several people were a plan of Al-Qaeda developed a few months earlier.

Maintenance between Tenet and Arafat in 2002

The president of the Palestinian National authority Yasser Arafat had in Ramallah a discussion with George Tenet come to the Middle East to offer his mediation. The two parts held consultations on the formation of the Palestinian unified security forces.

The purpose of the round of M.Tenet is principal to help Palestine to restore the structure of safety and the unified security forces. It had discussed with Israeli the Prime Minister and had primarily listened to the presentation of this last on the position and the Israeli attitude on the situation in the Middle East.

Career the post-CIA

Nearly three years after having left the central Agency of information (the CIA) American, George Tenet makes an explosive return on the political scene to the United States. In its Memories, At the Center off the Storm (In the middle of the storm), published Monday, April 30, 2007, it regulates its accounts with the Bush administration and justifies the practices of interrogations in the secret prisons of the CIA. It evokes Al-Qaida plots thwarted under its direction and the Nuclear weapon which would have been introduced in the United States while waiting to be activated on a signal of Usama Bin Laden.

Works

George Tenet, At the Center off the Storm: My Years At the CIA , HarperCollins, April 30th, 2007, 576 p. ISBN 0061147788

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