Documenting a Lie by George Tenet Before the 9/11 Commission

Michael Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA — mpwright9@aol.com

In this post I list five important lies, related to the 9/11 attack, which have
been told by officials. Then I give links to other posts which document
the fact that these are lies:

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php...

One of the five lies was by George Tenet. It is on video, and was told during a March 2005 speech at the University of Oklahoma, where his mentor David Boren is president. In response to a question from me he disputed a TIME magazine article reporting that in August 2001, when Minneapolis FBI agents were being obstructed in their request for a warrant to search Moussaoui’s laptop, the CIA told the FBI headquarters that Moussaoui was not an Al Qaeda member.

Tenet told another lie in his April 2004 testimony before the 9/11 Commission ( which also has lied). This lie was to deny that he had any meetings with George Bush in August 2001. See chapter of the 9/11 Commission report. It is on page 262:

http://www.9-11commission.gov/repor...

It confirms meetings between Bush and Tenet in August 2001. Then it says that Tenet "does not recall any discussions with the President of the domestic threat during this period."

The Commission was lying to protect Tenet from a perjury charge. In fact, he did
have a recollection of the period. His memory was not impaired. The "do not recall"
defense is bogus. He lied under oath. Tenet denied any meetings with Bush about
ANYTHING in August 2001. See pages 42-43 of this transcript of his testimony:

http://www.9-11commission.gov/archi...

Why was Tenet lying about this? Most likely he was trying to distance himself from responsibility for the August 6 CIA briefing to Bush. This memo incorporated the erroneous expectation that any hijacked airliners would be landed for negotiation over demands — not crashed into buildings. Here is that memo:

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB...