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TENENT RESIGNATION LINKED TO IRAQ WMD REPORT
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| 6/3/04
Posted on 06/03/2004 8:03:14 AM PDT by areafiftyone
The shock resignation of CIA Director George Tenet Thursday morning comes just days before the release of a devastating report on the CIA's inaccurate assessment that Iraq had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction before the war.
"Apparently there is a prewar intelligence report that is about to be released to the public compiled by the Senate Intelligence Committee," reports ABC News.
"We're being told that this report is devastating to George Tenet."
The report "relates to some of the prewar intelligence and some of the advice that Tenet gave to the president and to others in the administration in the lead-up to the Iraqi war."
According to Bob Woodward's recent book, "Plan of Attack," when Bush first expressed doubts about the quality prewar WMD intelligence, Tenet reportedly told him the evidence he had was "a slam dunk."
While no Iraqi WMD stockpiles have been uncovered, the Pentagon confirmed last week that at least one shell of Iraqi munitions contained the deadly nerve agent Sarin.
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cia; georgetenet; prewarintelligence; resignation; tenet; wmd
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To: Revolting cat!
Perhaps one of the personal reasons is that Tenet is having bouts of insomnia for not doing his job and for misleading the Admnistration. President Bush is just too much of a gentleman to say so.
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posted on
06/03/2004 8:17:39 AM PDT
by
AngieGOP
(I never met a woman who became a stripper because she played with Barbie dolls as a kid)
To: gaspar
I hope they put a field agent, not an analyst, in his place.
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posted on
06/03/2004 8:18:12 AM PDT
by
Endeavor
(Don't count your Hatch before it chickens)
To: areafiftyone
Maybe W will put his Dad back in charge of the CIA...wouldn't that be a hoot?
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posted on
06/03/2004 8:19:25 AM PDT
by
Cuttnhorse
(John Kerry, Unfit to be Commander in Chief)
To: AD from SpringBay
"Au contrair Mon Ami! This is the report that will be used to further bash the President. Known foreign policy history began the day Clinton left office. Most negative events of our lifetime began then as well. Clinton is a pre-creationist manifestation of all that is wonderful, puffy, and without form. Thus sayeth the ancient book/codex A-B-C-B-S-N-B-C-N-N." great writing there...
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posted on
06/03/2004 8:20:20 AM PDT
by
Chuzzlewit
(music, music and more music)
To: Endeavor
I hope they put a field agent, not an analyst, in his place. I hope they put a former KGB operative in his place. Those guys knew how to run an intelligence operation!
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posted on
06/03/2004 8:23:00 AM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
To: areafiftyone
So who will be the new CIA chief?
I'm thinking perfect spot for Rudy Giuliani.
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posted on
06/03/2004 8:26:31 AM PDT
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Cuttnhorse
It might be worth it for the entertainment value alone. Can you imagine the MSM and lefties deccompensating? - Bush Hunta - Bush Regime - Bush Empire...
To: Salvation
I am torn. I really want Rudy to defeat Hillary in 2006.
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posted on
06/03/2004 8:28:11 AM PDT
by
areafiftyone
(Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
To: areafiftyone
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posted on
06/03/2004 8:28:18 AM PDT
by
Kate of Spice Island
(sKerry to imagine the Kerry's swearing around Tony Blair or anyone else in power.)
To: areafiftyone
It'll be interesting to see who replaces him.
My short list:
- Sam Nunn
- Richard Lugar
- John McCain
- Porter Goss
I doubt any of them are on anybody else's short list though.
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posted on
06/03/2004 8:28:25 AM PDT
by
beckett
To: Cuttnhorse
Don't think it would happen. But it would scare the pants off the Dems.
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posted on
06/03/2004 8:28:56 AM PDT
by
areafiftyone
(Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
To: beckett; Mo1; StriperSniper
Richard Lugar??
IMO ~ NO WAY!!
To: OXENinFLA
Just kicking the idea around. I'm not married to it.
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posted on
06/03/2004 8:31:46 AM PDT
by
beckett
To: rintense
Then this report will be equally damning of the Clinton adminstration, John Kerry, Tom Daschle, and every to other Democrat that called for the bombing of Iraq back in 1998.
Oh that it would work that way!....But we all know better.
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posted on
06/03/2004 8:32:02 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Democrats assume Republicans lie as much as they do.)
To: GOP_1900AD
He DEFINITELY should have been fired on September 12, 2001.
To: areafiftyone
Bush should have fired everyone from the administration. I am sure Clinton did when he got into office There are only so many positions a president can "fire"........and Clinton was kind enough before he left office to make most of his political appointees civil servants; you cannot just up and fire a CS. Ashcroft even went to Congress to get permission to fire some of them, but they, of course, said no; they could only move them laterally.
Clinton fired all the attorneys genereal, who are required by law to submit their regisnations to the incoming administration; nobody before had ever accepted them ALL.
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posted on
06/03/2004 8:33:01 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: IndependentGuy
You registered here for that? Welcome.
To: Howlin
Thanks for clarifying that.
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posted on
06/03/2004 8:33:57 AM PDT
by
areafiftyone
(Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
To: Revolting cat!
The President wouldn't lie to us, would he, bushies?!
Has he yet?
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posted on
06/03/2004 8:33:57 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Democrats assume Republicans lie as much as they do.)
To: AD from SpringBay
It already started with that BUG EYE *ITCH from Cali. news conference a few minutes ago, pointing the finger at W's disastrous Iraqi policy! She is calling for a complete Change in the WH! W's failed policy should make people wonder about his ability to BLAH, BLAH, BLAH....gosh, how I wish the WHOLE rat ship would sink to the bottom of the pity in HELL..NOW!
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