Lexington: george's tenets

摘要

When someone described Herbert Morrison, a minister in Britain's 1945-51 Labour government, as his own worst enemy, his fellow-minister, Ernest Bevin, growled: "Not while I'm alive he ain't." You might have thought that George Tenet, a former head of the CIA, is his own worst enemy for producing a whingethon of a book, "At the Centre of the Storm" (HarperCollins). But it turns out that there are legions of Bevins around to prove you wrong. The book has been thoroughly slammed and dunked since its publication on April 30th. And Mr Tenet's book tour is turning into a nightmare; every time he goes on television to complain that the administration mistreated and misquoted him, he looks more and more snivelling. It's time for him to cancel the tour and reconnect with his ancestral home in Greece.