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A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East--from the Cold War to the War on Terror: Patrick Tyler: Books
The White House and the Middle East—from the Cold War to the War on Terror The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there influence our alliances, make or break presidencies, govern the price of oil, and draw us into war. But it was not always so—and as Patrick ...
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Slam drunk: George Tenet cursed neocon "Jews" from prince Bandar's pool
Majikthise — Wherein late-stage empire imitates reality TV: Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg recently picked up a copy of Patrick Tyler’s forthcoming book, A World of Trouble, which focuses on “America’s tortured relations with the Middle East.” Goldberg says that the book’s prologue contains a “whopper of a scene” featuring former CIA director George Tenet “drunk on scotch, flailing about Prince ...

Howie, in Mali, sends back an online book preview: "George Tenet, Drunk in Bandar's Pool, Screaming about Jews"
DownWithTyranny! — Has the Medal of Freedom become a badge of infamy? by Ken Howie writes: "I just arrived in Mali. Now I'm REALLY in Africa." And with this he sent back the following nugget from HuffPost: George Tenet Screamed About Jews In Saudi Prince's Pool: Book The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg offers an interesting ...

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Drunk George Tenet lashed out at Bush’s neocons: ‘The Jews’ who tried to ‘pin the Iraq WMD fiasco on him.’
thinkprogress.org 12/17/2008 — Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg recently picked up a copy of Patrick Tyler’s forthcoming book, A World of Trouble , which focuses on “America’s tortured relations with the Middle East.” Goldberg says that the book’s ...
George Tenet's Drunk Pool PartyBooman Tribune
This scene certainly has the air of plausibility. Patrick Tyler paints the picture in his new book A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East--From the Cold War to the War on Terror. DCI George Tenet is in Riyadh at Prince Bandar's place. He's drunk, he's in the pool, and he's ...