Posted on 06/03/2004 7:30:15 AM PDT by cyncooper
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the 9-11 commision doesn't have the "juice" to knock off Tenet, their behaviour has done much to discredit them. Ashcroft and Rice and even Rudy did a good job slapping them down - their report is not why Tenet is leaving.
"Bets on how long before he writes an anti Bush book anyone?"
You are right. You just know that guy is going to try and make a buck blaming everything on Bush.
Like someone else pointed out. Tenet probably already has his manuscript of blaming Bush saved on a disk just for this day.
IMHO I think Tenet found out some of the stuff that has been going on in the agency to sabotage something and has taken personal responsibility for it. I think the only reason that man would leave his job is if he felt he had hurt the administration in some way. Tenet is an extrememly loyal man. This has something to do with something that has happened in Iraq, either Chalabi, Abu Graib, or some other thing that we don't know about yet. I think he thinks he has failed President Bush in some way.
In all honesty, the DUmmies are doing what we FReepers did many times during the Clinton Administration - taking one event and extrapolating the preferred outcome.
I also wish the public officials would develop a shorthand for these things, since there is just a limited number of them. It would make it all so much easier to digest! They could call "personal reasons" "# 1", call "to spend more time with his family" "# 2" (I can't think of any others.) The President would just have to say that "So-and-so resigned for number one", and everyone would understand!
Ah, the lies and more lies of our public life!
I think Tenet has served a long time for a CIA Director, he stayed because he was asked to stay...I do not hold him responsible for all the ills of the CIA...it was a mess when he worked for Clinton...9/11 came in the first year with Bush..
.Changes were needed and hard to do..A new face may get the same reception the Pentagon/Army greeted Rumsfield's reorganizing...change is a like herding cats in a bureaucracy.
Bush liked him and I believe Tenet liked Bush even though Tenet is a dem. I think he was tired.
Cheney to CIA and Condi Rice VP
If he'd take it, yes. It would be tough to keep his Senate seat, but, the value of having McCain as a public face of the admin would be invaluable.
bush 41 came from outside cia...
Yes, but you have to remember that what you "read" is only what the media are telling you. Of course they're going to print any complaint he makes! They're much less likely to discuss anything positive he has to say.
Tenet was acceptable.
I, too, don't see bashing him was very productive, but the president can now choose someone completely to his own liking, rather than a 'Toon holdover. He knows much more now than in 2000 the most important qualifications important now for this postion.
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They have given us have every reason to think that way. Until that changes and hell becomes a winter playground, they will never get my trust.
Well see, hopefully he will be loyal to Bush who was loyal to him.
Bingo!!!
It's possible that the Plame and Chalabi investigations will make the CIA look so bad that people will demand that the director resign; anticipating that, Tenet is launching a "pre-emptive resignation."
bttt...
No way!
Normally, this would be a reasonable argument, but we are dealing with, at best, a RINO of Specter-the-defector stripe. And as a Clintonite, more likely a Fifth Columnist who went along with all the insane Gorelick rules, and implemented the stupid destructive attacks on human intel.
We have another example where every word you just wrote could be said EQUALLY of Richard Clark. He was the 'Terror Czar' going into 9-11. EVERYthing he asked for he, in fact, got. GWB keeps him on when he could have made him a scape goat, and fired him for his flagrant incompetence, but he is kept on, but quietly demoted horizontally. He leaves, and as the story goes, 'the rest is history'. Tell all book, duplicitous 9-11 testimony tailored to be damaging, and his own staffers working for Kerry as Intel advisers.
It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in. - President Lyndon B. Johnson
Porter Goss would be FANTASTIC!
Now that Tenet has done what Gore asked for, the 911 Commission will have to modify their conclusions to turn the criticism more directly against Bush for not having gotten rid of Tenet and fixed US intelligence sooner.
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