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.
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.
Wasn't Tenet a hold over from the Clinton admin?
Something wicked this way comes........
Heheheheheh. Run away Tenet, run away. Maybe if he puts his head under the pillow they won't find him.
Since early 1991 a host of participants in FR who have knowledge of the intelligence committee have called for Tenet's resignation. Not only did he misread badly the Iraqi situation, but he presided over an organization that took part in questionble hires and thus increased the politicization of the CIA itself.
Yes he was. Bush should have fired everyone from the administration. I am sure Clinton did when he got into office and I am sure if (god forbid) Kerry gets in offifce he will too.
Sorry, write in haste... That should be since 2001 FR people with knowledge of the intelligence community have called for Tenet's resignation.
I would have fired him on January 21, 2001.
I agree that there should have been a sweeping overhaul of every government office that had any Clinton appointee. Hindsight being what it is, of course.
Start with STATE!
Perhaps the cleansing is starting now, with a vastly improved State Dept., Pentagon, CIA and FBI in place during Bush's second term.
agreed. this is long overdue.
No, it's not! The President himself said Tenet resigned for "personal reasons"! The President wouldn't lie to us, would he, bushies?!
"Wasn't Tenet a hold over from the Clinton admin?"
Doesn't really matter. Once W took him on as his own all prior employers became 'old hat'.
although, Tenet wasn't head of the CIA in 1991.
TENET RESIGNED!!!!??????
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