THE WEEKEND SCOUNDREL: When he goes to a mind-reader, does he get half-price?
It was a slam dunk 60 Minutes would help me be self-serving. So screw ya, I'm laffin' all the way to the bank.
Exhibiting every trait of a dog except loyalty, George Tenet has been pimped while carrying the sob story he was done wrong by the Bush administration. One would have had to been a Trappist monk to have missed the teasers for Sunday's coming-out party and while there's a chance Tenet may be right in some small way, his story still fits more with the Winston Churchill-ism: "He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened."
"The former CIA director's book -- 'At the Center of a Storm' -- calls the situation in Iraq 'disastrous,'" stated a caption in today's Los Angeles Times.
The ferocity of intellect makes the eyes water.
In any case, "Al Qaeda's primary threat is nuclear, book says," writes reporter Julian Barnes, who should probably be reading recent Daily Mushroom Clouds, here and here.
Last week, the same was peddled in leaked Brit intelligence report; the week before, a much less famous person than Tenet, also pimping a book, delivered it.
"I am convinced [the nuclear bomb] is where [Osama bin Laden] and his operatives desparately want to go," Tenet has written, according to Barnes.
This being the case, one expects the book to contain even more thin and very warmeded-over terror gruel.
" ... [I]n early 2003, al Qaeda cancelled a planned cyanide attack on the New York City subway," writes Barnes further in. "Tenet writes, 'Zawahiri recalled the operatives in New York because we have something bigger in mind.'"
If this sounds familiar, it should. It's a shame Barnes doesn't mention it because his newspaper surely did when the story was much fresher.
"[Ron Suskind's] book is replete with grippingly detailed examples, the most sensational of which has been the subject of considerable news coverage based on a pre-book publication excerpt in Time magazine," wrote the newspaper on June 20. "That, of course, is the story of how Al Qaeda came within a little more than a month of using a workable device it had developed to unleash poison gas in the New York subway."
The cyanide plot story appeared in "The One Percent Doctrine," where it was vigorously flogged to the newsmedia even though the truth was somewhat less exciting and more complicated. At the time, it was called the Mubtakkar of Death and author Ron Suskind went from media outlet to outlet repeating his pleasing tale of megatragedy avoided.
So it would be reasonable to assume a replay after Sunday since mainstream terror beat journalists like nothing so much as to repeat the same stories over and over without clueing readers into how old and stale they are. Read the original deconstruction here.
"We said nonsense, but it was important nonsense!" -- Someone you don't know
Read the standard mainstream clowning at the Washington Post, the kind where it is pretended Tenet has emitted something remarkable and worth reading. Note catfight between Tenet and Ron Suskind, who spilled Tenet's stories for his own book a year earlier.
It was a slam dunk 60 Minutes would help me be self-serving. So screw ya, I'm laffin' all the way to the bank.
Exhibiting every trait of a dog except loyalty, George Tenet has been pimped while carrying the sob story he was done wrong by the Bush administration. One would have had to been a Trappist monk to have missed the teasers for Sunday's coming-out party and while there's a chance Tenet may be right in some small way, his story still fits more with the Winston Churchill-ism: "He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened."
"The former CIA director's book -- 'At the Center of a Storm' -- calls the situation in Iraq 'disastrous,'" stated a caption in today's Los Angeles Times.
The ferocity of intellect makes the eyes water.
In any case, "Al Qaeda's primary threat is nuclear, book says," writes reporter Julian Barnes, who should probably be reading recent Daily Mushroom Clouds, here and here.
Last week, the same was peddled in leaked Brit intelligence report; the week before, a much less famous person than Tenet, also pimping a book, delivered it.
"I am convinced [the nuclear bomb] is where [Osama bin Laden] and his operatives desparately want to go," Tenet has written, according to Barnes.
This being the case, one expects the book to contain even more thin and very warmeded-over terror gruel.
" ... [I]n early 2003, al Qaeda cancelled a planned cyanide attack on the New York City subway," writes Barnes further in. "Tenet writes, 'Zawahiri recalled the operatives in New York because we have something bigger in mind.'"
If this sounds familiar, it should. It's a shame Barnes doesn't mention it because his newspaper surely did when the story was much fresher.
"[Ron Suskind's] book is replete with grippingly detailed examples, the most sensational of which has been the subject of considerable news coverage based on a pre-book publication excerpt in Time magazine," wrote the newspaper on June 20. "That, of course, is the story of how Al Qaeda came within a little more than a month of using a workable device it had developed to unleash poison gas in the New York subway."
The cyanide plot story appeared in "The One Percent Doctrine," where it was vigorously flogged to the newsmedia even though the truth was somewhat less exciting and more complicated. At the time, it was called the Mubtakkar of Death and author Ron Suskind went from media outlet to outlet repeating his pleasing tale of megatragedy avoided.
So it would be reasonable to assume a replay after Sunday since mainstream terror beat journalists like nothing so much as to repeat the same stories over and over without clueing readers into how old and stale they are. Read the original deconstruction here.
"We said nonsense, but it was important nonsense!" -- Someone you don't know
Read the standard mainstream clowning at the Washington Post, the kind where it is pretended Tenet has emitted something remarkable and worth reading. Note catfight between Tenet and Ron Suskind, who spilled Tenet's stories for his own book a year earlier.
posted by George Smith at 3:27 PM
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