Our new CIA DirectorI'm wondering if he is the source of the Wilson leak.
Are we going to get Giuliani?
George Tenet should have stayed around until after the election. This follows a pattern of the White House giving more and more ammunition to the Librats. It opens the President up to further discrediting by his opponents and does strain his reelection chances.
I still believe Tenet was behind the "burning" of Valerie Plame. And if he was, it was perfectly legal (the law allows the DCI to reveal any agent's cover). I'll be interested to see if that case hits the press during the slow summer months. I'd love to see it happen, if true.
Here's a theory about what the "personal reasons" might be. Let's say you're the DCIA and you've been hearing strong and persistant intel about a potential devastating attack on the US especially in the mid-July - November time frame. Your network has not been able to surface any specifics and the clock is ticking. What should you do? If you stay, you could be, at a minimum, blamed for the attack or, at worst, you could be one of the victims. One telling sign will be where Tenet moves after his resignation. If he stays in the northern Virginia area, then the theory is probably untrue. However, if he moves out of that area to someplace, like say, Arizona or Nevada or Montana and does it rather suddenly, then the theory might have more credence.
I can't think of a CIA Director that has overseen more intelligence failures.
Somelthing tells me this has much more to do with the report coming from the 9/11 Commission and Chalabi than anything else.
Our new CIA DirectorIt's about time...
The 9-11 Committee did it's job. They drew blood, got the trophy head. Like Osama, this will only embolden them/libs/dems to go after more.
Apparently, Chalabi learned that the US had cracked Iranian encryption codes from a drunken CIA official in Baghdad. He then leaked the information to the Iranians. I wonder if Tenet was that official. Hmm. Pure speculation.
Brian Wilson on FoxNews speculates that Chalabi had something to do with Tenet's departure. Brian said he wasn't quite sure what it might be, but the Chalabi situation could be the cause.
At long last!!!
On February 5, 2001, President Bush announced his intention to nominate Dr. Paul Wolfowitz to be Deputy Secretary of Defense. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on Feb. 28th and sworn in March 2, 2001 as the 28th Deputy Secretary of Defense. This is Dr. Wolfowitz's third tour of duty in the Pentagon.
For the last seven years, Dr. Wolfowitz has served as Dean and Professor of International Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University. SAIS is widely regarded as one of the world's leading graduate schools of international relations with 750 students, studying on campuses in Washington, D.C.; Nanjing, China; and Bologna, Italy. As Dean, he led a successful capital campaign that raised more than $75 million and doubled the school's endowment. Also under his leadership, the curriculum and facilities were modernized and new faculty and programs were added to shift the school's focus from the Cold War to the era of globalization.
From 1989 to 1993, Dr. Wolfowitz served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in charge of the 700-person defense policy team that was responsible to Secretary Dick Cheney for matters concerning strategy, plans, and policy. During this period Secretary Wolfowitz and his staff had major responsibilities for the reshaping of strategy and force posture at the end of the Cold War.
Under his leadership, the Policy Staff played a major role in reviewing war plans for the Gulf War, and developing and executing plans that successfully raised more than $50 billion in Allied financial support for the war and prevented Iraq from opening a second front with Israel. Other key initiatives included the development of the Regional Defense Strategy, the Base Force, and two presidential nuclear initiatives that led to the elimination of tens of thousands of U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons.
During the Reagan administration, Dr. Wolfowitz served for three years as U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia - the fourth largest country in the world and the largest in the Moslem world. There he earned a reputation as a highly popular and effective Ambassador, a tough negotiator on behalf of American intellectual property owners, and a public advocate of political openness and democratic values. During his tenure, Embassy Jakarta was cited as one of the four best-managed embassies inspected in 1988.
Prior to that posting, he served three and a half years as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, where he was in charge of U.S. relations with more than twenty countries. In addition to contributing to substantial improvements in U.S. relations with Japan and China, Assistant Secretary Wolfowitz played a central role in coordinating the U.S. policy toward the Philippines that supported a peaceful transition from the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos to democracy.
Dr. Wolfowitz's previous government service included:
Two years as head of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff (1981-82):
An earlier Pentagon tour as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Regional Programs (1977-80), where he helped create the force that later became the United States Central Command and initiated the Maritime Pre-positioning Ships, the backbone of the initial U.S. deployment twelve years later in Operation Desert Shield; Four years (1973-77) in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, working on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and a number of nuclear nonproliferation issues; and A year as a Management Intern at the Bureau of the Budget (1966-67).
Dr. Wolfowitz taught previously at Yale (1970-73) and Johns Hopkins (1981). In 1993, he was the George F. Kennan Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College. He has written widely on the subject of national strategy and foreign policy and was a member of the advisory boards of the journals Foreign Affairs and National Interest.
Among his many awards for public service are:
The Presidential Citizen's Medal,
The Department of Defense's Distinguished Public Service Medal,
The Department of State's Distinguished Honor Award,
The Department of Defense's Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, and
The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency's Distinguished Honor Award.
Dr. Wolfowitz received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University (1965) in mathematics, and a doctorate in political science from the University of Chicago (1972).
(Current as of Mar 2001)
Rush made a good point re: not having a "new" CIA director chosen before election. Not needing another "fight" in congress. the LT will take over.
WOnder how many personal threats to their famililes men/women like Tenent get? HOw much it affects them - everyone has their limits.
And he more than most knows the treachery possible inside as well as outside with terrorists
Being CIA Director with everything that's going on worldwide would kill most of us or send us to the funny farm.
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Whoa!
Wonder if Tennet was the drunken American that provided Ahmad Chalabi with the information that we broke Iran's spy communications code?
Deputy CIA Director John E. McLaughlin testifies before the federal panel reviewing the Sept. 11 attacks in Washington in this March 24, 2004 file photo. President Bush said Thursday, June 3, 2004 that CIA Director George Tenet has resigned 'for personal reasons' and that McLaughlin will temporarily lead America's premier spy agency until a successor is found. (AP Photo/J.Scott Applewhite, Files)
President Clinton meets reporters in the Green Room of the White House in this March 19, 1997 file photo, to announce he will officially nominate acting CIA Director George Tenet, rear, to head the spy agency. Tenet's wife Stephanie and son John Michael look on. President Bush said Thursday, June 3, 2004 that CIA director George Tenet has resigned 'for personal reasons' and that his deputy will temporarily lead America's premier spy agency until a successor is found. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson,File)
Well, I will look forward to Tenet addressing the Nation. It could really be as simple as he has had to live in the fast lane for too long, that he wants to go fishing and spend time with his son and Bride.
I for one will refuse to be sucked into the trap of giving any weight to anything that the Traitors of this Country (dim's, lib's Kerry, Kennedy, Dasshole, Pilgoatseeeee and the media) put out about all of this. THEY are doing their best to break us up, create doubt and have us fighting amounts ourselves.......to hell with them!!
My faith in President Bush is unshakable. I would vote for him even if I was going to be the only vote.
