Now Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC saying "Frankly, if he really wanted to leave for personal reasons--and we haven't had a long time to investigate to report on this--he would have done so long ago".
Another gem from the smug Andrea: Whatever problems at the CIA, it is ultimately the president's decisions that affect the agency so HE should be held responsible, not the CIA director, so if this was done to "take the heat off", it won't.
Thanks to Ms. Mitchell, we have been handed the first crude direction the talking points will take.
Right.
Andrea has her claws out. She tries so hard to portray herself as an insider but, in fact, she's well out there on the fringes.
No, if he is doing this because of a CIA scandal and Bush was aware of it long ago and did nothing, then the proper thing would have been for Bush to fire Tenet at the time-- not wait for Tenet to resign for personal reasons. I don't think this is the case, but if it were, I'd agree with Andrea.