Bob Woodward: George Tenet’s New Book ‘Not As Good’ As Bob Woodward’s

Have you read George Tenet’s new book, “At The Center Of The Storm” yet? Christopher Hitchens has, and he’s already called Tenet a “portentous, self-justifying disgrace.”

And now, Bob Woodward has, and it seems that his number one objection is Tenet’s failure to enlist Woodward’s help in crafting his autobiography.

In Sunday???s Washington Post (May 6), Bob Woodward penned a lengthy appraisal of George Tenet???s book, ???At The Center Of The Storm,??? about his tenure as George Bush???s CIA director. But it???s not really a review of the Tenet book; it???s more like an explanation of how Tenet could have been a better intelligence chief and written a better memoir if only he had listened to Bob Woodward…

Naturally, that’s just the beginning.

Tellingly, Woodward spends one-quarter of his book review insisting that Tenet???s versions of events previously described in Woodward???s books are flawed and Woodward???s versions are the correct ones…Woodward is relentless in defending his own versions of events.

C’mon, Woodward. Even Hitch managed to blast Tenet for being self-important, overreaching and a failure at his job.

And, as much as we enjoyed “All The President’s Men,” surely Tenet’s greatest misstep had more to do with his misinformation about WMD than with his contradictions to Woodward’s own account—or his inability to land a Robert Redford type star to play him in the inevitable big screen adaptation.