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Another Exasperating Account of the Bunker

Sinking Tenet's "slam dunk."

Calvin Trillin

May 2, 2007

So who ever thunk That Tenet’s “slam dunk” Was really the chunk Of intelligence junk That got our boys sunk In quagmire gunk? But he, with no spunk, Stayed mum, like a punk, And helped sell this bunk ‘Til all went kerplunk, And then packed his trunk. Like Powell, he’s shrunk.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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