Bush didn't want to fire Tenet...he didn't want Tenet to go now, but finally accepted his resignation.
I'll take President Bush's judgement over Newsmax any day.
As to others, Richard Clarke, for one, was taken out of the loop almost immediately--Rice was informed of his gigantic ego on January 21, 2001, hence his pique and subsequent declining to attend meetings in favor of gathering material for his eventual book. Perhaps he should have been let go sooner, but he was demoted.
Bush didn't want to fire Tenet...he didn't want Tenet to go now, but finally accepted his resignation.
And you don't think that was poor judgement? Tennet was a nice guy, but INCOMPETENT.