Veritas78 @ 21

So why on earth did Clinton appoint him in the first place? The guy must have had something in his favor at some point, but I never saw it. Anyone remember?

Clinton seemingly appointed Tenet because Clinton’s first choice Tony Lake was rejected and since Tenet had spent his career as a I wanna please staffer, he presumably would continue to suck up to Clinton as would have Lake. It is interesting that Hillary Clinton has never criticized Tenet in the context of her throroughly specious “if I had known then what I know now….” rationale for her vote on the Iraq War as opposed to to if I had done any investigation of merit “I could never have properly believed then what I did then..” Hillary had to know that Tenet was baloney when she voted for the war and that Tenet could not be relied upon. Remember it was Tenet who apologized for the CIA using an out of date tourist map for locating the Chinese Embassy when it was “mistakenly” bombed in Belgrade during the Clinton sponsored bombing. Tenet was ridiculous for years and Hillary Clinton knew it. Tenet and his careerist style fit in with Bush. Does anyone know how many hours Tenet actually spent at the White House total. He is reported to have driven there every business day to “brief” Bush. Tenet, sadly, is a very, very bad guy.

Good grief, I’m going to puke…this is regarding food contamination…they made soy sauce from human hair..

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..31936/6888

Well, let’s hope that human had clean hair and didn’t lick his comb!

Good grief, I’m going to puke…this is regarding food contamination…they made soy sauce from human hair..

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..31936/6888

Well, that’s why they call it “Kinko Man”!

This relatescto the so-called “recent capture” of an al-Qaida operative by the US.

http://voanews.com/english/2007-04-27-voa40.cfm

“The U.S. government announced Friday that it captured a senior al-Qaida leader late last year and interrogated him in CIA custody until this week, when he was transferred to the Defense Department’s Guantanamo detention center. VOA’s Al Pessin reports from the Pentagon.

The Defense Department and the CIA say the man is Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi, and they call him one of the al-Qaida terrorist network’s most senior officials. They will not say exactly when, where or how he was captured, but a U.S. intelligence official tells VOA the capture was late last year and that he has been held by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since then. The official says the capture was the result of work by several countries, but he would not say which ones.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman says Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi operated primarily in Pakistan and along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in recent years, and that he was captured when he was apparently in the process of taking on a new assignment.

“At the time of his capture, he was trying to return to his native country, Iraq, to manage al-Qaida’s affairs and possibly focus on operations outside Iraq against western targets,” he said.

Whitman also says al-Iraqi met with al-Qaida members in Iran shortly before his capture. A Pentagon news release says al-Iraqi urged al-Qaida operatives in Iran to do more to help insurgents in Iraq, and also to “cause problems” inside Iran.”

It’s pretty clear that the “US” didn’t capture this guy but he was actually captured and transferred TO the CIA for interrogation by a third party.

The Pentagon spokesman refused to state WHICH country because it was too sensitive to reveal. Now clearly neither Pakistan nor Afghanistan has any issue with announcements of the capture of Al-Qaida individuals. Neither would the Saudis ~ who just announced a vast sweep of their own. In fact, it’s hard to think that any country WOULD have an issue with announcing their cooperation UNLESS there was either a “forced rendition” (Italy comes to mind here) OR the CIA doesn’t want to announce the cooperation of that country (or its intelligence service) for an entirely different reason.

Whitman also says al-Iraqi met with al-Qaida members in Iran shortly before his capture….he was captured when he was apparently in the process of taking on a new assignment. “At the time of his capture, he was trying to return to his native country, Iraq”

Pakistan sources say that al-Iraqi left the country in 2005 and had not returned since.

So, just maybe, our deadly “undeclared” enemy…IRAN…
has been cooperative in transferring al-Qaida terrorists to U.S. custody. Of course, the U.S. may not be entirely willing to reveal this….and neither might Iran, or sub-sectors within Iran, who might fear cooperation with the U.S. might make them an al Qaida tarket.

Dak @ 106. I had a McGovern T-shirt. Wore it everywhere. One day in the mid-seventies it went into the washer and never came out. Seinfeldesque demise.

Did it come back as an odd sock? this is what always happens when I loose things in the laundry.