CIA now says Tenet DID go to Texas (8/17/01)???

14 Apr 2004 21:04:12 GMT

CIA director doesn't recall trip to Texas in 2001


WASHINGTON, April 14 (Reuters) - CIA Director George Tenet insisted he had no contact with the president who was vacationing in Texas during the month before the Sept. 11 attacks. But he was mistaken.

A CIA spokesman later said Tenet had in fact gone to Texas during August of that year to brief President George W. Bush.

"I didn't see the president. I was not in briefings with him during this time. He was on vacation. I was here," Tenet told the commission investigating the attacks on Wednesday....

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The CIA spokesman said Tenet had flown to Texas on Aug. 17, 2001, to brief the president.


http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N14343033.htm

Something BIGGER than the PDB is being covered up.

They're being very, very clumsy right now.

Who?

Where is this leading?

during that vacation people were visiting and wearing a cowboy hat looking really stupid. lott being one of them. i am slightly remembering tenet being there and thinking this bronx type guy at the farm.

all vague

and could be wrong. you would think tenet remember a trip to the ranch

Bring it on, I say.

(My second post!) I love this place.
HI!

So was bush sending subliminal messages with that mesmerizing tie last night? Or was it an intended distraction.

It was almost as annoying as his stumbling speech.

I LOVE your screen name! :hi:

From the White House's own web site:

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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/08/20010825-2.html
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President Gives Tour of Crawford Ranch
Remarks by the President During Tour of the President's Ranch
Prarie Chapel Ranch
Crawford, Texas

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Q    When you have those business meetings, like the Joint Chiefs briefing, do you like to keep it separate from the living quarters on the ranch?

     THE PRESIDENT:  Actually, you know, what we call the governor's house, the place where you all came out during the -- that's where we went.  Condi and Karen Hughes stayed there.  And right across the street from that is a -- it's a nice looking government doublewide.  (Laughter.)  And that's where the mil aide, the nurse, the WHCA head, the doc, they stay.

     The CIA briefings, I have on our porch, the end of our porch looking out over the lake.  When Tenet came up, that's where we visited, out there.

     You know, everybody wants to see the ranch, which I'm proud to show it off.  So George Tenet and I -- yesterday, we piled in the new nominees for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Vice Chairman and their wives and went right up the canyon.

C.I.A. Chief Defends Agency but Allows 'We Made Mistakes'
By TERENCE NEILAN and DAVID STOUT

Published: April 14, 2004


...Mr. Tenet's testimony before the panel was followed a few hours later by an abrupt reversal in which he corrected himself. The director had told one panel member, Timothy J. Roemer, a Democratic former congressman from Indiana, that while other C.I.A. personnel had briefed President Bush during the summer of 2001, he himself did not talk to the president that month.

But this afternoon, a C.I.A. spokesman, Bill Harlowe, said the director may have misunderstood the question. Mr. Harlowe said Mr. Tenet had indeed briefed Mr. Bush that month — at his ranch in Texas on Aug. 17 and on Aug. 31 in Washington. Nothing out of the ordinary was talked about, said the C.I.A. official who corrected Mr. Tenet....


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/14/politics/14CND-PANE.html?hp

...much less three years ago.

Tenet is. You would expect the head of intelligence to be able to remember going to Crawford, Tx in the middle of friggin August, to hang out at the pig farm with the pResident?

loser!

Tenet should smack that fucking Lehman up side of the goddamn head.

to face meeting with bush* sinse early spring or early summer 2001 until after 911"

ROEMER: Would it have made any difference if you had mentioned -- did you ever mention it (note: I think Roemer is referring to Moussaoui, and possibly flight school training), for instance, to the president -- your briefing the president from August 6th on?

TENET:: I didn't see the president. I was not in briefings with him during this time. He was on vacation. I was here.

ROEMER: You didn't see the president between August 6, 2001, and September 10th?

TENET:: Well, no. Before -- saw him after Labor Day, to be sure.

ROEMER: So you saw him September 4th -- at the principals' meeting?

TENET:: It was not at principals' meeting.

ROEMER: Well, you don't see him...

TENET:: Condoleezza Rice -- Condoleezza -- I saw him in this time frame, to be sure.

ROEMER: OK. I'm just confused. You see him on August 6th with the PDB.

TENET:: No, I do not, sir. I'm not there.

ROEMER: OK. You're not -- when do you see him in August?

TENET:: I don't believe I do.

ROEMER: You don't see the president of the United States once in the month of August?

TENET:: He's in Texas and I'm either here or on leave for some of that time, so I'm not here.

ROEMER: So who's briefing him on the PDBs?

TENET:: The briefer, himself. We have a presidential briefer.

ROEMER: But you never get on the phone or in any kind of conference with him to talk at this level of high chatter and huge warnings during the spring and summer to talk to him through the whole month of August?

TENET:: We talked to him directly throughout the spring and early summer almost every day.

ROEMER: But not in August?

TENET:: In this time period, I'm not talking to him, no.


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/14/politics/14TEXT-PANEL.html?pagewanted=21