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CIA Director George Tenet submitted his letter of resignation today, President Bush announced.
The president met last night in the White House with Tenet, who said he was stepping down for personal reasons.
 George Tenet (Photo: Sky News) |
Tenet, who has been at the center of controversy over intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, is expected to serve until mid-July, the president said.
"He's been a strong and able leader at the agency and I will miss him," Bush said in a brief statement. "I send my blessings to George and his family and look forward to working with him until he leaves the agency."
Tenet spoke to CIA personnel this morning.
"It was a personal decision, and had only one basis in fact: the well being of my wonderful family, nothing more and nothing less," Tenet said, according to a CIA official who spoke on condition of anonymity, reported ABC News.
"This [I] say with exceptional pride: The CIA and the American intelligence community are stronger now than when I became DCI [director of central intelligence] seven years ago, and they will be stronger tomorrow than they are today. That is not my legacy. It's yours," the official quoted Tenet as saying.
Many Washington insiders did not expect Tenet to serve beyond November, regardless of who wins the White House.
He was appointed by President Clinton in 1997.
Bush said CIA deputy John McLaughlin will take over temporarily until a successor is found.
McLaughlin is among the possible successors, along with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss, R-Fla., a former CIA agent.
On Capitol Hill, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said, according to the Associated Press: "He served his country a long time. History will tell what the implications of his tenure were.
"I think history will either vindicate him or say, 'Hey there was a problem there'," Hastert said.
Retired Adm. Stansfield Turner, a former CIA director, told CNN he thought Tenet had been made a scapegoat.
"I don't think he would have pulled the plug on President Bush in an election cycle without having been told to do that," said Turner.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., called Tenet "an honorable and decent man who has served his country well in difficult times, and no one should make him a fall guy for anything."
Okay, with all the WRONG people suddenly singing Tenet's praises...I am officially skeptical.