George Tenet to Kiss and Tell

Posted on November 15, 2004

Former CIA chief George Tenet is shopping around a book proposal and it isn't pretty, according to The New York Daily News. Sources tell the newspaper that Tenant trashes Condoleeza Rice in the book, calling her "incompetent" when it came to protecting Americans from terrorists.

Tenet's book collaborator and former spokesman, Bill Harlow, denies that Tenet is putting the blame on Condi, who will be named the next Secretary of State after Colin Powell departs in January. Robert Barnett, the lawyer who's shopping the proposal, also declined to discuss the book.

The word is that every major house in New York wants the book and bidding has started at $1 million. Since General Tommy Franks is reported to have gotten $5 million for his memoir (in which he called Rumsfeld's #2 guy, Douglas Feith "the dumbest *&@#-ing guy on the planet"), one would think that Tenet's no-holds barred memoir should fetch at least that much. Except for that pesky Official Secrets Act, which could seriously hamper Tenet's ability to dish the dirt.