[cyncooper]

An incompetant ass whose parting shot is to all but blame Condi Rice for 9/11?

Believing media spin? Any freeper worth their salt should know better.

[txrangerette]

I believe the CIA is broken from within and at a lower level than the DCI. Probably why it has not seemed to matter a great deal who is at the top. I believe the President wants to reward Tenet for his many years of effort, and for some successes that the President understands the public will never know about. In these hidden succesess, I think he must be sufficiently impressed that Tenet made a difference, or he would not be rewarding him.