Tenet Submits Resignation

June 3, 2004

[cyncooper]

Breaking News on Fox

[oceanview]

so he's been director for 7 years, stayed on an additional year, been there through two wars, survived the grilling of the 9-11 commission....but couldn't hold on for 150 more days?

[GraniteStateConservative]

Not as important as Bush's, but more important than most every other job. Americans do care if the CIA Director and the FBI Director are not serving honorably and competently. More than they do about every other job.

[isthisnickcool]

I'm wondering if he is the source of the Wilson leak.

Doubtful. That woman and her nutcase husband are very very far under Tenet's radar.

[Mustangcountry]

Clinton is in a wheel chair.

What the heck.

I wish he was six-feet under like Vince Foster.

[Carolinamom]

Novak could end this Wilson/Plame obsession if, in the interest of national security, he would "out" his source who allegedly committed a felony. Novak is not a priest.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Isn't Howlin a chick? Using such language!

[McGavin999]

Oh please! This could be something as simple as the guy missing the great majority of his kids lives. He's in a high pressure, 24/7 job and maybe, just maybe he'd actually like to do something like see his kids grow up.

He's done a superb job at the CIA and has worked miracles to rebuild it after what was done to it over the years. Sometimes things really ARE just what they say.

[cspackler]

Would everyone please leave Monty alone so that he/she will quit asking to be left alone already?

[LI conservative]

I disagree that he's perfectly qualified. He has no/limited knowledge of the bureaucracy @ the CIA and IMO it's imperative that the next DCI have an immediate understanding of that so that he can fix it. I fear that Rudy's learning curve would be too long and he wouldn't be able to bring the reforms that are needed @ the CIA.

[TomGuy]

But you did make a little boo-boo. For that you must look at this photo of the worlds biggest DORK.

Oh the cruelty!

Oh the humanity!

Where were you trained? Abu Dabba Doo Iraqi prison????


lol

[sully777]

Thu Jun 3, 2004 10:31 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA Director George Tenet is resigning for personal reasons, President Bush said Thursday.

I was hoping the article could have been a little more vague. </sarcasm>

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It's the CIA. Vague is both useful and useless at the same time, but for different reasons which may indeed serve the same purpose.

[dc-zoo]

Don't get snippy? Please don't use that word. It sounds too much like algore. LOL

[cyncooper]

MSNBC wasted no time to get Kristen Breitweiser on the phone. I just caught the end.

As a "family member" she is concerned because during the summer of 2001 there was only an acting head (referring to the FBI, I take it?) and 9/11 happened.

She is distressed that no one is being held accountable.

My comment: She is distressed that we are holding the terrorists responsible.

[Darlin']

Settle down. This is a surprise but not a disaster.

[AFPhys]

Everyone: please notice -

OCEANVIEW believes there is EXTREME SIGNIFICANCE to the fact that this occurred 150 DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION.

It would also have EXTREME SIGNIFICANCE if it occurred 150 days after 9/11, or only 12 days after a full moon.

Please pay no attention to the fact that George Tenet served two administrations for longer than the average CIA director served one administration. Please pay no attention that he stayed on at President Bush's request for a lengthy period of time after he first made known he wanted out.

It is, after all, 150 days BEFORE THE ELECTION. oceanview says so.
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[Diddle E. Squat]

Ah yes, the Greg Norman/"I had Sunshine on my shoulders" wheelchair moment...

[cgk]

FNC has interviewed a couple members of Congress and just now Lt Gen McInerney... they're discussing Porter Goss as a possible replacement.

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Porter Goss on Crime

Click here for OR .

• Voted NO on funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. (Jun 2000)
• Voted YES on more prosecution and sentencing for juvenile crime. (Jun 1999)
• Voted NO on maintaining right of habeus corpus in Death Penalty Appeals. (Mar 1996)
• Voted YES on making federal death penalty appeals harder. (Feb 1995)
• Voted NO on replacing death penalty with life imprisonment. (Apr 1994)
• More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty. (Sep 1994)

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Porter Goss on Foreign Policy

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• Voted NO on keeping Cuba travel ban until political prisoners released. (Jul 2001)
• Voted NO on withholding $244M in UN Back Payments until US seat restored. (May 2001)
• Voted NO on $156M to IMF for 3rd-world debt reduction. (Jul 2000)
• Voted YES on Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China. (May 2000)
• Voted NO on $15.2 billion for foreign operations. (Nov 1999)

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Porter Goss on Homeland Security

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• Voted YES on emergency $78B for war in Iraq & Afghanistan. (Apr 2003)
• Voted YES on permitting commercial airline pilots to carry guns. (Jul 2002)
• Voted YES on $266 billion Defense Appropriations bill. (Jul 1999)
• Voted YES on deploying SDI. (Mar 1999)
• No US troops under UN command; more defense spending. (Sep 1994)

Porter Goss on War & Peace

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• Voted YES on authorizing military force in Iraq. (Oct 2002)
• Voted NO on disallowing the invasion of Kosovo. (May 1999)
• Supports $48 billion in new spending for anti-terrorism. (Jan 2002)

[Petronski]

Novak could end this Wilson/Plame obsession...

And help the President? Never.

[isthisnickcool]

Isn't Howlin a chick? Using such language!

So? What's the, you know, f'ing problem with a mf-ing woman, you know, speaking like a c** s** m*** f-ing man? Don't use, you know, the word "chick" again, you know, or I'll bite you f-ing b**ls off you, you know, skewer them and make fon-fing-du with them!

you know?

signed

Hillary (somewhere behind closed doors)

[Carolinamom]

Words have meaning. I meant it as a description of your remark to me, and imo it fit. Now, let's end this minor flame. OK?