The Truffle

George Tenet keeps trying to make himself look good set the record straight, and it's just not convincing. He was on Wolf Blitzer responding to Ray McGovern, Larry Johnson, and the other CIA agents who'd dubbed him CIA's answer to Alberto Gonzales. They said he had blood on his hands. He was really offended by that. They said he should donate royalties from his book to charity. He says he's already the head of a foundation that aids CIA agents and their families. I guess he's not going to give back that medal of his, either. Talk about trying to have it both ways and failing.

As it turns out, the people who were absolutely, totally, completely right about the Iraq debacle at the very beginning are interested to read George Tenet's "shocking" revelation. Against my better judgment, I tuned in to watch Larry King and hear Tenet try to justify torture enhanced interrogation techniques. He pretty much said the same things he said on 60 Minutes, except he was less combative. I have yet to read Tenet's book (I'll probably check it out at the library), but none of it is news to Georgie Anne Geyer . Look, look! The very man who oversaw American intelligence during this entire disastrous period of planning, plotting and going to a hypothetical war in that remote country worlds away has now come out to "reveal" how much of everything was false. But in truth, the Tenet book, "At the Center of the Storm," is old stuff. It only confirms what culture-savvy journalists like Arnaud de Borchgrave of United Press International,...