George Tenet's Drunken Outburst

Here's one Bush administration anecdote not uncovered by Bob Woodward. Back when he was CIA director, George Tenet had too much scotch to drink while hanging out in Prince Bandar's pool in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. "He drained half the bottle in a few minutes," Patrick Tyler writes in A World of Trouble. "They're setting me up. The bastards are setting me up. I am not going to take the hit," Tenet reportedly said, referring to the blame game over Iraq's WMD. There's more, courtesy of an excerpt by The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg: "According to one witness, he mocked the neoconservatives in the Bush administration and their alignment with the right wing of Israel's political establishment, referring to them with exasperation as, 'the Jews.'" Tenet denied the remarks.