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George Tenet covered_up Horn v. CIA documented
“agent. Former Director Tennant, who resigned as head of the CIA in 2004 after a seven-year stint as director, must likewise be sanctioned because of his declaration that caused the court to dismiss Brown from the case. And since it was form…”
▶ he Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 4 @ 36:43
George Tenet member_of Bolivia book_quoted
“But supposedly, according to this author, that was new in 2000 in the Serbian elections. Agency officers trained party activists in Bulgaria and George Tenet had made an unprecedented visit there to secure agreement of officials, but the po…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 41:16
George Tenet recruited Buzzy Krongard book_quoted
“at the center of the storm, the CIA's during America's time of crisis. Tenet wrote this, quote, one person I did bring in from the outside was Buzzy Crongard. He has been the CEO of an investment bank firm, Alex Brown. That's heady territor…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 12:46
George Tenet appointed Buzzy Krongard documented
“Buzzy Crongard to be the executive director of the CIA. And as we talked about yesterday, that's the number three position. In this position, Buzzy was the third highest ranking official in the agency. At the time, the number two guy was no…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 17:07
George Tenet member_of CIA documented
“For proof of that, we need to look at the CIA pedigreed officials who are in the scope of the federal judge's ire in the Horn case. Among them was CIA Director George Tenet and CIA General Counsel John Rizzo. Both Tenet and Rizzo played a k…”
▶ he Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 4 @ 32:59
Allen Dulles succeeded George Tenet book_quoted
“with what some said was a fierce loyalty to the CIA personnel and to Bush, which, of course, is bullshit, whose father was a predecessor in the post. A likable, chummy personality also helped him become the second longest-serving CIA direct…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #4 @ 14:04
George Tenet covered_up Kevin Shipp book_quoted
“June 17, 2002, when we filed the case, until February 11, 2004, the CIA did not make an assertion of state privilege. There would later be accusations that CIA Director George Tenet was using the privilege to shut down all legal action and …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #4 @ 10:05
George Tenet succeeded John Deutch book_quoted
“When Tennant took over as director from the helpless Deutsch, he became the first director of intelligence to repeatedly invoke the state secret's privilege to shut down anyone against the agency and not tell them anything. And that include…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 29:52
Janet Reno pardoned George Tenet host_asserted
“The investigations revealed the charges were true, but of course, Clinton's attorney general, Janet Reno, announced in a letter to the director of CIA, George Tenet, that she was not going to prosecute Deutsch for compromising national secu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 33:37
Bill Clinton appointed George Tenet documented
“Committee on Intelligence, a political circus. So the acting DCI was Deutsch's deputy, George Tenet, and he perfectly fit all of Clinton's criteria, plus he was basically already on the inside, so they felt like he would get favorable consi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 4:12
George Tenet appointed Mark Lowenthal documented
“The worst thing to emerge during Tenet's confirmation was that his father had bought a condominium in Greece. That's it. That's like the dirt. He had already brought over to the CIA as the deputy former House Committee Staff Director Mark L…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 11:10
George Tenet appointed L. Britt Snyder documented
“You don't bring people in at the senior level if they've not been around intelligence before. And there's like a thoroughfare in Washington, D.C. of intelligence officials. So another guy on the Congress staff that's making a beeline to the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 11:43
George Tenet appointed Jack Downing documented
“And that's why they loved him. So he didn't necessarily see that any of this needed to be fixed in any way. So he then asked Jack Downing to return from retirement. He was asked to retire, but now it's all good. So come on back in. And Tenn…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 21:02
George Tenet appointed James Pavitt documented
“chose as the deputy director of operations, James Pavitt. He was from one of those new fusion counterproliferation centers while they're proliferating. Yeah, so let's promote him. He eventually gets Pavitt, eventually gets promoted to be th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 21:34
George Tenet funded CIA documented
“So they're now up to $1.5 billion in supplemental appropriation. And for those of you who don't know, that means in addition to all the money they normally get to buy a whole bunch of satellites in 1998. That's about the last time that we a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 22:07
George Tenet founded Harvey Point documented
“to the public for jobs. He also created the infamous spy school at Harvey Point, North Carolina, which I've been by. And they do EOD type, like what they used to do in Texas, blow shit up. They do it right there on the coast of North Caroli…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 22:43
George Tenet supported Slobodan Milosevic documented
“easier to get things done. The CIA director reportedly supported a project against Serbian President Milosevic when Clinton approved it in 1998. Tenet did back the inception of a new Afghan secret war, but for intelligence gathering only. Y…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 27:48
George H.W. Bush appointed George Tenet documented
“which might have brought the adversaries to where they could cooperate. It, of course, broke down. Following the contested presidential election of 2000, George Bush said that he was keeping on George Tenet. Some people had wanted him repla…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 34:17
Porter Goss succeeded George Tenet documented
“But hey, let's all talk about waterboarding. Iraq led to George Tenet's demise. The CIA flawed claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and tried to sell it to everybody became so controversial that the agency ultimately w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 38:04
George Tenet headed CIA book_quoted
“but resigned himself in the spring of 2006, two years later. His main claim to achievement, refilling the ranks of the clandestine service, is really something that George Tenet began. Yeah, hire more of them spies. We need them. The covert…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 38:37
George Tenet member_of National Security Council documented
“who had came from the NSC staff where he had been the top man for intelligence. Tenet has been a decade on Capitol Hill, mostly as a staff member at the Senate Intelligence Committee. A couple of years earlier, Woolsey had favored shutting …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 42:59
George Tenet exposed Bosnia book_quoted
“In October 94, Woolsey again complained about the Bosnia policy. The CIA doubts contributed directly to rejection of the Holbrooke plan by Lake and Secretary Christopher in early November. The National Security Advisor went beyond simply re…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 22:09
George Tenet member_of U.S. Congress documented
“who had came from the NSC staff where he had been the top man for intelligence. Tenet has been a decade on Capitol Hill, mostly as a staff member at the Senate Intelligence Committee. A couple of years earlier, Woolsey had favored shutting …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 42:59
George Tenet recruited Buzzy Krongard book_quoted
“Where did we hear of him last? Oh, as the deputy director of the CIA, working with Krongard. We may end up having more questions about Buzzy Krongard in the future as more information comes to light. However, in an excellent book, Black 9-1…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:03:32
George Tenet supported Afghanistan documented
“easier to get things done. The CIA director reportedly supported a project against Serbian President Milosevic when Clinton approved it in 1998. Tenet did back the inception of a new Afghan secret war, but for intelligence gathering only. Y…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 27:48
George Tenet supported Israel documented
“It's not that they didn't allow the military to fly the U-2 program because they did because they needed it as a cover story. It was the weather aircraft. But they keep their own shit separate because they don't want you knowing what they'r…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 33:15
George Tenet appointed Buzzy Krongard book_quoted
“And just so everyone understands, 1998 is, let's see, we get Clinton in 92. So this is halfway through his second term. CIA George Tenet appointed Alvin Bernard Buzzy Crongard as his quote unquote counselor. There's no such role as that. So…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 2:03
George Tenet ordered_assassination_of Kevin Shipp book_quoted
“In addition, they threatened my family and our attorneys that we would be sent to prison if we told anyone about anything in it. He concluded that that direction had to have come from George Tenet personally as the CIA director because no o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #4 @ 6:32
George Tenet member_of Porter Goss host_asserted
“Like Representative Porter Goss. Not the Porter Goss that championed through the Patriot Act after 9-11 and the Porter Goss that got promoted as a result to be the CIA director. That Porter Goss? Yeah, that same guy. He's best buds with Geo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 23:46
George Tenet ordered_assassination_of Kevin Shipp guest_asserted
“Several years later, as a corporate program manager off-site facility, I was approached by a former official of the IG office of the CIA who had been hired by the same company as a program manager. He told an interesting story. He claimed t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 51:50

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he Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 4
▶ 32:59 For proof of that, we need to look at the CIA pedigreed officials who are in the scope of the federal judge's ire in the Horn case. Among them was CIA Director George Tenet and CIA General Counsel John Rizzo. Both Tenet and Rizzo played a k…
he Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 4
▶ 36:43 agent. Former Director Tennant, who resigned as head of the CIA in 2004 after a seven-year stint as director, must likewise be sanctioned because of his declaration that caused the court to dismiss Brown from the case. And since it was form…
he Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 4
▶ 37:40 Royce Lamberth opened the door for sanctions to be brought against Tennant and Rizzo. Also on the list were several other CIA officials like Robert Edinger, then acting Attorney General for operations in the CIA's office, meaning covert ope…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 25 (Final)
▶ 4:04 the relationship between the CIA assets and cocaine traffickers. Naturally, those details went largely unreported. But CIA Director George Tenet was quoted extensively saying that the damage to the CIA's reputation may never be fully revers…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs Oil and War Part 4
▶ 19:35 Not only did they ignore it, CIA Director George Tenet, in a report to Congress in February 2001 and in a speech that threatened retaliatory strikes against the Taliban, said this, quote, production in Afghanistan has been exploding as it w…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs Oil and War Part 4
▶ 20:02 And it accounts for 72% of the illicit opium production in 2000, knowing full well that it had just been eliminated. The drug threat is increasingly intertwined with all of these other threats. For example, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs Oil and War Part 4
▶ 20:33 The CIA director, Tenet, standing in front of Congress, lying his ass off, completely lying his ass off because bin Laden was a product of the CIA, not the Taliban, the CIA. The terrorist groups, a product of the CIA, not the Taliban. So it…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53)
▶ 49:05 So much for the concept. Director Deutsch, Woolsey's successor, not only approved Achilles, he asked the task force to set markers to measure success. Yeah, get out your spreadsheet. Let's put up some points of timelines and chart this all …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53)
▶ 55:16 Stephen Ritker also convinced General Shawani to try his coup again and had him coordinate plans with Alawi. Langley told Congress in May that Saddam's chances for holding power were diminishing. They haven't done anything, but Director Deu…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53)
▶ 59:04 and former CIA Wolseley volunteered pro bono legal aid to the Iraqis. The case turned into a spectacle. Even this debacle did not end the sorry story of the Iraqi project, a sort of tar baby that proceeded in tandem with the overt U.S.-U.N.…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 18:44 the encrypted State Department system on any of this. A couple of days later, Tolbert muddied the waters, instructing Goldberg to file after all. When CIA Director Woolsey learned of this from his station chief in Zagreb, he hit the roof, t…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 21:45 Price warned the CIA director that a covert arms channel would be costly and inevitably found out. Jim Wolseley, reading the feed from Zagreb, his link to Lake was very tenuous, feared the extent to which the NSC contemplated a covert opera…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 22:09 In October 94, Woolsey again complained about the Bosnia policy. The CIA doubts contributed directly to rejection of the Holbrooke plan by Lake and Secretary Christopher in early November. The National Security Advisor went beyond simply re…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 23:09 Of course, poor relations were the very essence of Jim Woolsey's association with the White House. But by the time the report emerged, Woolsey was gone. John Deutch now manned Langley, where Anthony Lake and the NSC staff had perhaps been t…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54)
▶ 42:26 The covert action review group became just one of many reforms for Deutsch pulled out all stops. He wanted officer participation and many became involved. The agency had prided itself on not being like heavy at the top. That was gone. One p…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 0:33 Today's going to be our last show on the content of this book. We may do kind of an overview summary tomorrow, but this session will continue the second to the last chapter called Struggle for Control. And where we left off yesterday was th…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 3:10 But you should take note of the fact that the FBI actually gave the Senate his FBI file. Because in most cases, when that is asked for, they don't get it, which is what's going to happen with George Tenet. Shelby asked for his as well, and …
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 4:12 Committee on Intelligence, a political circus. So the acting DCI was Deutsch's deputy, George Tenet, and he perfectly fit all of Clinton's criteria, plus he was basically already on the inside, so they felt like he would get favorable consi…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 7:20 and House. Because in the past, they were perfectly satisfied with having them embedded into the staff, not the actual representative or the Senate. There's a disturbing boldness to the recent change. And Tenet is a good example of that. Te…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 9:39 George Tenet is nominated. I mentioned that Shelby had asked for his file and didn't get it. Also, there were other good signs, if you're Tenet, one of which was a provision that was put in the 1998 Intelligence Authorization Act that was r…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 15:34 And it's interesting that they would put the person in charge of NRO out of the Congress. That's like weird, unless they're already read into all of that stuff and part of it, because that's a very technical kind of job. Very interesting. O…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 16:07 highlighting all of the great qualities of the CIA too in the mid-1990s like we just went through Iran-Contra and everybody the only organization when he took over that was viewed worse than the CIA was the IRS imagine that because they had…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 16:35 all of the 70s stuff come out. Then in the 80s, they're drugging us. And yeah, so nobody held the CIA in high regards at all. But Tenet was gonna change all of that. And he had a plan to do that. So let's see what his plan is. His plan incl…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 19:19 You would not be at all surprised with all of this propaganda going on that everybody at Langley loved Tenet. Now, let's put that into perspective. What happened in the 1990s that involved the CIA? You know, like bombing the Chinese embassy…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 21:02 And that's why they loved him. So he didn't necessarily see that any of this needed to be fixed in any way. So he then asked Jack Downing to return from retirement. He was asked to retire, but now it's all good. So come on back in. And Tenn…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 22:07 So they're now up to $1.5 billion in supplemental appropriation. And for those of you who don't know, that means in addition to all the money they normally get to buy a whole bunch of satellites in 1998. That's about the last time that we a…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 22:43 to the public for jobs. He also created the infamous spy school at Harvey Point, North Carolina, which I've been by. And they do EOD type, like what they used to do in Texas, blow shit up. They do it right there on the coast of North Caroli…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 23:16 the largest class ever from Camp Perry spy school during his tenure. So he's been very, very active. Tenet also spoke frequently of the need for more spies in human intelligence. And he talked to a lot of people in Congress about that. It's…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 26:47 quote unquote, hard targets in 1999, he found that they were too risk adverse. I guess that kind of equates to you weren't killing enough people. I don't know. Okay. George Tenet insisted that he supported operations with a chance of succes…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 27:48 easier to get things done. The CIA director reportedly supported a project against Serbian President Milosevic when Clinton approved it in 1998. Tenet did back the inception of a new Afghan secret war, but for intelligence gathering only. Y…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 29:10 before 9-11. Crazy. As for Iraq, little reason existed to believe the exiles and the Kurds any more capable than they had been at times in the previous. Ironically, today, after George Tenet's CIA spearheaded the Bush attack on Iraq, the pr…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 29:46 is Barzani and Shalabi is a key figure in the majority Shiite religious political alliance. Perhaps nothing succeeds like failure. So in other words, all of the people that in the past had been CIA bad guys are now all in charge. Crazy. Ris…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 31:55 Photography. The issue became more than theoretical a year later when the U.S. fought a brief war in the Serb Republic of Kosovo. Tenet made progress on that front, but much of it was wiped away by the intelligence snafu of bombing the Chin…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 33:15 It's not that they didn't allow the military to fly the U-2 program because they did because they needed it as a cover story. It was the weather aircraft. But they keep their own shit separate because they don't want you knowing what they'r…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 33:47 the Israeli-Palestinian peace deals. The importance of the CIA's involvement came such that George W. Bush, who announced the end of Tenet's initiative in 2001, was obliged to send him back the following year. Working both sides, Tenet cobb…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 34:17 which might have brought the adversaries to where they could cooperate. It, of course, broke down. Following the contested presidential election of 2000, George Bush said that he was keeping on George Tenet. Some people had wanted him repla…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 38:04 But hey, let's all talk about waterboarding. Iraq led to George Tenet's demise. The CIA flawed claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and tried to sell it to everybody became so controversial that the agency ultimately w…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 38:37 but resigned himself in the spring of 2006, two years later. His main claim to achievement, refilling the ranks of the clandestine service, is really something that George Tenet began. Yeah, hire more of them spies. We need them. The covert…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 41:16 But supposedly, according to this author, that was new in 2000 in the Serbian elections. Agency officers trained party activists in Bulgaria and George Tenet had made an unprecedented visit there to secure agreement of officials, but the po…
The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)
▶ 1:05:36 And I'm sitting here thinking, yeah, that's right. There are staffers on the intelligence board. So I decided to go take a look. Well, they're around 40 to 50 staffers. However, we really don't get an exact number besides the senators and e…
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 3
▶ 14:33 and the book he owned that had been signed with a personal note from none other than George Tenet himself, a former director of the CIA. Attorney Mark Conrad served as a supervisory special agent who had oversaw nine states and two differen…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #4
▶ 6:32 In addition, they threatened my family and our attorneys that we would be sent to prison if we told anyone about anything in it. He concluded that that direction had to have come from George Tenet personally as the CIA director because no o…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #4
▶ 10:05 June 17, 2002, when we filed the case, until February 11, 2004, the CIA did not make an assertion of state privilege. There would later be accusations that CIA Director George Tenet was using the privilege to shut down all legal action and …
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #4
▶ 12:05 And I do blame it for the breakup of my marriage, because at that point, they knew they were screwed. There's no one to talk to. The CIA is screwing them every way to Sunday. Three months later, George Tenet would resign from the CIA. The e…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #4
▶ 12:37 CIA Director George Tenet has resigned as director of the CIA for quote-unquote personal reasons. President Bush sent in a surprise announcement. A government source told NBC News that the agency's director of operations, James Pavitt, P-A-…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #4
▶ 13:36 There's usually a cushy, well-paid consulting job waiting for them as a military defense contractor somewhere in the system. The NBC News article put the final nail in Tenet's reputation. During his seven years at the CIA, speculation at ti…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #4
▶ 14:04 with what some said was a fierce loyalty to the CIA personnel and to Bush, which, of course, is bullshit, whose father was a predecessor in the post. A likable, chummy personality also helped him become the second longest-serving CIA direct…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #4
▶ 14:33 So he was there before that. And then he had to stay to cover up all of their shit. So that makes perfect sense. It may sometimes take a while. But the faulty claims of weapons of mass destruction, but eventually incompetence catches up wit…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2
▶ 28:14 Kevin Shipp goes on to say, my last assignment as a CIA protective agent was to participate in the installation of the new CIA director, John Deutch. George Tenet would take over as deputy CIA, and Nora Sklakton became the first executive o…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2
▶ 29:20 impressed with Deutsch was an understatement. So he goes on to say, Deutsch was usually quite disheveled in appearance. He always found him to be deeply unimpressive. Tenet was the opposite end of the spectrum, always dressed to the nines a…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2
▶ 29:52 When Tennant took over as director from the helpless Deutsch, he became the first director of intelligence to repeatedly invoke the state secret's privilege to shut down anyone against the agency and not tell them anything. And that include…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2
▶ 30:20 The agency that Kevin's ship joined, he says, had always allowed vigorous dissent and disagreement inside of the walls. But once the decision had been made that they basically saluted smartly and moved on, that changed. With Tenet at the he…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2
▶ 31:43 criticized the cult of secrecy while running for office, leaving it to the courts to stand up for transparency and accountability, which, of course, they were not allowed to do because they were never provided any information to do it. Litt…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2
▶ 33:37 The investigations revealed the charges were true, but of course, Clinton's attorney general, Janet Reno, announced in a letter to the director of CIA, George Tenet, that she was not going to prosecute Deutsch for compromising national secu…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3
▶ 2:03 And just so everyone understands, 1998 is, let's see, we get Clinton in 92. So this is halfway through his second term. CIA George Tenet appointed Alvin Bernard Buzzy Crongard as his quote unquote counselor. There's no such role as that. So…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3
▶ 6:00 And look at the company that he supposedly worked for. More on that later. The CIA had been around for more than 50 years before George Tenet decided, you know, what I really need is a Wall Street guy coming into a special position that I'l…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3
▶ 7:55 Quote, back to the interview, Krongard is guarded about how he met Tennant and how long he knew him. For centuries, he said, deadpanned. He said it was not unusual for them to have lunch together either at the CIA headquarters at Langley or…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3
▶ 8:23 It started as a lark, almost. Well, why don't you come down here and fix it? George Tenet was supposed to have said. Joining the agency was something Krongard had fantasized about, but never seriously thought he should bring it up. He drew …
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3
▶ 12:18 It's really quite a feat to have no opinion about the CIA, but to regard yourself as a hero of your own personal Clint Eastwood movie with confidence in yourself so high. How could anything possibly go wrong? Another person with sky high co…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3
▶ 12:46 at the center of the storm, the CIA's during America's time of crisis. Tenet wrote this, quote, one person I did bring in from the outside was Buzzy Crongard. He has been the CEO of an investment bank firm, Alex Brown. That's heady territor…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3
▶ 17:36 Cider is a number three at the CIA. This was in the article. A.B. Buzzy Crongard, a cigar-chomping former investment banker and martial arts enthusiast, was named yesterday executive director of the CIA, bringing a fast-paced management sty…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3
▶ 23:16 a Capitol Hill staffer and Pentagon official who served as the executive director from 95 to 96 under then-CIE director John Deutch. One former agency official said that he found it absolutely astonishing that Tennant installed Krongard in …
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3
▶ 25:04 of the real world we operated in. The onslaught of threats and crises never abated as we tried to remake the institution. We couldn't afford pit stops. We were changing the tires as the race car was careening around at 180 miles an hour. Th…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3
▶ 25:34 The job of the CIA director was really two jobs running both the CIA and also a larger intelligence community of 16 diverse agencies. One of the criticisms of not only me, but all of my predecessors is that we focus on CIA to the exclusion …
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3
▶ 51:50 Several years later, as a corporate program manager off-site facility, I was approached by a former official of the IG office of the CIA who had been hired by the same company as a program manager. He told an interesting story. He claimed t…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3
▶ 1:03:32 Where did we hear of him last? Oh, as the deputy director of the CIA, working with Krongard. We may end up having more questions about Buzzy Krongard in the future as more information comes to light. However, in an excellent book, Black 9-1…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3
▶ 1:17:00 I was chairman of the board at the Bank of Baltimore and we happened to be in the same building. What was Krongard's relationship with the CIA? Hale goes on to say, I don't know. I don't think it was official. But eventually he became the n…