{"id":3534,"date":"2007-05-10T14:14:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T21:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/10\/michael-scheuer-2\/"},"modified":"2007-05-18T16:46:52","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T23:46:52","slug":"michael-scheuer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/10\/michael-scheuer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Scheuer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer discusses the <a href=\"http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/2007\/images\/04\/29\/tenet.pdf\">open letter<\/a> [.pdf] he and other former CIA officials wrote to George Tenet, the responsibility Tenet bears for the war and for failing to kill Osama bin Laden in the 1990&#8217;s,  his excuse(<em>?<\/em>) that the &#8220;slam dunk&#8221; referred to lying us into war rather than the presence of WMD, Dick Durbin&#8217;s recent admission that he knew the war was based on lies and his responsibility for staying quiet, the Constitution&#8217;s requirement that Congress hold responsibility for declaring war, his belief that Osama is still alive, al Qaeda&#8217;s ability to quickly replace their leadership, Bush&#8217;s renewed invocation of Osama to justify the war in Iraq and threats against Iran and the fact that there was no pre-war link between Iraq and al Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/charles\/awmichaelsheurer050307.mp3\">MP3 here<\/a><\/strong>. (17: 10)<\/p>\n<p>Michael Scheuer is a 22-year veteran of the CIA and the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1574888498\/antiwarbookstore\"><em>Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Responsibility<\/em><\/strong>: George Tenet and the War in Iraq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}