George Tenet

Awesome interview - good work 60 Minutes!! Tenet comes off like a really "nice" guy but I think he lets himself off too easily - he and others were responsible for those ghastly lapses of intelligence. If that happened in the corporate world, they would all be fired immediately.

Tenet was a good intelligence officer but was brought down by intense pressure from above. It is unfortunate that Mr. Tenet was used by the Bush administration

If this man did his job well, he would have done everything possible to avoid the Iraq war. He should have seen all the negative consequences of this war coming.

Leadership equals accountability which is lacking in everyone who denies making decisions in the run up to the war. Every person who leaves the administration from Paul O'Neill down the line have been made to be liars and villains by the broken record spokespeople trotted about by Rove and the Bushies. We are in Iraq and no one is accountable for blunders. Apparently, war just fell out of the sky on our heads by accident.

Because of all the hatemail, following the books of persons present when important decisions were made we run the risk that nobody (maybe only Bob Woodward) will tell their story "as how they perceived and encountered it".If they are untrue or lies, other persons present will give their side of the story.Especially we must not take the present Bush administration seriously when they attack every chapter of Tenet's book.It is absolutely necessary that books on these periods must be written and published, so we will learn what actually happened.

I'm no historian George but if history will be honest you were the biggest failure, you never had on the job training. You came from the Hill ( bad move) and you should have stood up to anyone who was in your way If you served the president you had to tell him what he did not want to hear. Human beings make judgements? Then what happened to your judgement? I wonder if an FBI profiler read your body language? You know in the past old directors did not kiss and tell seems everyone is jumping out windows now to be a cause celeb? Take it like a man wait for your book to hit the dollar stores!

It's extremely worrisome that thousands of people lost their lives because of botched intelligence. Will anyone be held accountable? I wonder where the finger pointing will end?

One the best interviews I've seen on 60 Minutes, with a great deal of candor and passion from Mr. Tenet. I was intrigued with his reaction to Bob Woodward's quote about the "slam dunk." It gives me pause to consider that even the most seasoned journalists, such as Mr. Woodward, can misquote a source with devastating consequences. I was also struck by the lack of ire Mr. Tenet displayed toward President Bush; it makes me wonder if Mr. Tenet is somehow constrained in the ability to express his views on the current administration. Perhaps he fears retaliation if he singles-out President Bush?

All this waste of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars to remove "a dictator." I flatly disagree with Tenet: Iraq is much worse off today than under Saddam. More people die under US domination in Iraq than under Saddam. Certainly tens of thousand Iraqi lives mean little to the US. Read history to look at the role the CIA has had in regions like Latin America and how they trained police and security squads in the fine art of torture. The CIA was and still is an accomplice of maintaining autocratic regimes that have little regard to human rights.

Its obvious jukkaseppanenus that you read to many conspiracy websites. Your comment about more civillians die under "U.S domination" is a flat out lie. You had better go back and read the facts on that one. Or is facts not what your into?