Hitchens skewers Tenet. We join the action on 9-11:

“This has bin Laden all over it,” Tenet told Boren…”I wonder,” Tenet said, “if it has anything to do with this guy taking pilot training.”…

Notice the direct quotes that make it clear who is the author of this brilliant insight. And then pause for a second. The author is almost the only man who could have known of Zacarias Moussaoui and his co-conspirators—the very man who positively knew they were among us, in flight schools, and then decided to leave them alone. In his latest effusion, he writes: “I do know one thing in my gut. Al-Qaeda is here and waiting.” Well, we all know that much by now. But Tenet is one of the few who knew it then, and not just in his “gut” but in his small brain, and who left us all under open skies. His ridiculous agency, supposedly committed to “HUMINT” under his leadership, could not even do what John Walker Lindh had done—namely, infiltrate the Taliban and the Bin Laden circle…

the only really interesting question is why the president did not fire this vain and useless person on the very first day of the war. Instead, he awarded him a Presidential Medal of Freedom! Tenet is now so self-pitying that he expects us to believe that he was “not at all sure that [he] really wanted to accept” this honor.

Accepting an award he did not deserve was — or so we are now meant to believe — not a slam dunk.

UPDATE

Roger Simon asks about Tenet: “Is he a moron or a liar or both?” Mr. Simon then provides a pretty compelling answer.

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