After thinking about some of Tenet's replies last night where he remarked how the public comments hurt him (because we think they're idiots), I thought of the massive responsibility and individual pesonalities competing with each other for superiority. Just look at your own workplace for an example.

To some degree, if he said it was a "slam dunk", he was just going along with good old boys club in a fit of enthusiasm, no matter what kind of a spin he puts on it. And he answered my question, " do these guys ever lose sleep over some of their decisions? "And the answer is yes.

>" these men have an opportunity to actually control policy simply by the way they do their job."

I often wondered how Wolfowitz and Perle got in there in the first place and how they came to hold so much power in the administration.
Whatever, I have more respect for Tenet TRYING to come clean than those other psychophants (new word) who are still hiding behind the skirt of Mother National Security.

Iraq is a mess, that gets worse every day. Sometimes I cringe that if we don't get out soon, all hell will break loose. Because it's a tribal war now, and they're getting loads of faceless warriors now, serving any number of personal agendas. (Warriors-R-US).