Political Rule No.’s 3 & 14.
If you are not the highest ranking official in any meeting, you are subject to being the scapegoat when it all falls to shit. (See George Tenet)
If you are the scapegoat, a tell-all book is step 1 on your road to redemption. Plus it just feels good. (See George Tenet)
[CNN]
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Redemption? Or you’re just profiting off of denying a war you helped enable.
Writing this book doesn’t make him any less responsible. And last I heard, he hasn’t exactly apologized for this mess he helped get us into.