Brokaw Wonders Why Tenet Didn't Resign Given 'Rogue' Pentagon Operatio
April 30th, 2007 8:33 AM
The Bush administration: a bigger threat to national security than a foreign spy. That was Tom Brokaw's implicit assumption in his interview with former CIA Director George Tenet on this morning's "Today." Along the way, Brokaw accused former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of running a "rogue" intelligence operation.BROKAW: In the opening passage you describe conversations in the Clinton…
Former Head of CIA’s Bin Laden Unit: Don’t Buy Tenet’s Blame Gam
April 29th, 2007 10:17 PM
On Sunday’s “60 Minutes,” ex-CIA Director George Tenet told CBS’ Scott Pelley the Bush administration misrepresented his now famous “slam dunk” reference to weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (video available here).However, one of Tenet’s former employees, Michael Scheuer, published an op-ed (h/t Captain Ed) in the Washington Post Sunday cautioning that “the former director of central…
Bob Schieffer Behind Katie Couric's Troubles
April 24th, 2007 1:54 PM
Roger Friedman, gossip blogger for FNC has an interesting item about the anti-Katie Couric piece that I blogged about yesterday. According to Friedman, the piece was done partly at the behest of Couric's predecessor, the seemingly avuncular Bob Schieffer.That wouldn't surprise me, but before I get into why, here's Friedman:
[O]ne of Couric's frequently
mentioned enemies is Bob Schieffer, the…