Posted on 06/03/2004 7:30:15 AM PDT by cyncooper
Breaking News on Fox
And you must be assuming that press coverage will be arranged in a way to make this a positive (or even neutral) for the administration. Please ping me when you see that happening.
They also mine Yale, Harvard, Stanford and the like. Georgetown give more over tho State than the CIA.
It will be Rudy! Didn't someone post a thread yesterday that said the GOP convention would be 'very good' for Rudy? I think that was a hint at things to come...
Sen lott, says Tenet should be given a thanks. But Bush should take advantage . CIA was restricted by Congress and funding.. should be one intelligence head...
Great points!!! You put me in a far better mood!!
I BEG your pardon?
My facts are always in impeccable order.
Great post, a logical reasoned voice in a faux storm.
"Or Ron Brown, or Vince Foster, heh-heh"
You know what, I wish Powell would leave.
Well analyzed. However, it's tough to lose Tenet's 7 years of experience. Woolsey might be a good choice, but I can see the hearings now: "Will you guarantee that you will make no mistakes in gathering and processing intelligence if we confirm you, though we have to cut back on your funding, restrict the spies you can deal with, have you testify before Congress every other week, and rebuild the Gorelick Wall by letting the Patriot Act expire?"
Any thoughts on replacement?
Tenet resigns as head of CIA09:58 AM CDT on Thursday, June 3, 2004
WASHINGTON - CIA Director George Tenet, who weathered storms over intelligence lapses about suspected weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has resigned, President Bush said Thursday.
"I will miss him," Bush said.
Tenet came to the White House to inform Bush about his decision Wednesday night. "He told me he was resigning for personal reasons," Bush said. "I told him I'm sorry he's leaving. He's done a superb job on behalf of the American people."
Bush said that deputy, John McLaughlin, will temporarily lead America's premier spy agency until a successor is found. Among possible successors is House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss, R-Fla., a former CIA agent and McLaughlin.
"He's been a strong and able leader at the agency. and I will miss him," Bush said of Tenet as he got ready to board Marine One for a trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and on to Europe.
"George Tenet is the kind of public servant you like to work with," the president added. "He's strong, he's resolute. He's served his nation as the director for seven years. He has been a strong and able leader at the agency. He's been a strong leader in the war on terror."
"I send my blessings to George and his family and look forward to working with him until he leaves the agency," Bush said.
George J. TenetAGE-BIRTH DATE - 44. Jan. 5, 1953.
EDUCATION - Bachelor's degree, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 1976; Master's degree in international affairs, Columbia University, 1978.
EXPERIENCE - Staff director, Senate Committee on Intelligence, 1988-1993; National Security Council staff 1993-1995; deputy director, Central Intelligence Agency, 1995-1996; acting CIA director 1996-1997; CIA director 1997-2004; submitted resignation June 3, citing personal reasons.
FAMILY - Wife, A. Stephanie Glakas-Tenet; son John Michael.
QUOTE - "There is no room for either politics or partisanship in the way the intelligence community performs its duties."Tenet had been under fire for months in connection with intelligence failures related to the U.S.-led war against Iraq, specifically assertions the United States made about Saddam Hussein's purported possession of weapons of mass destruction, and with respect to the threat from the al-Qaida terrorist network.
In May, a panel investigating the Sept. 11 attacks released statements harshly criticizing the CIA for failing to fully appreciate the threat posed by al-Qaida before the terrorist hijackings. Tenet told the panel the intelligence-gathering flaws exposed by the attacks will take five years to correct.
During his seven years at the CIA, speculation at times has swirled around whether Tenet would retire or be forced out, peaking after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and surging again after the flawed intelligence estimates about Iraq's fighting capability.
Even when his political capital appeared to be tanking, Tenet managed to hang on with what some say was a fierce loyalty to Bush and the CIA personnel. A likable, chummy personality, also helped keep him above water.
Conventional wisdom had been that Tenet, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, did not plan to stay on next year, no matter who won the White House. Tenet has been on the job since July 1997, an unusually lengthy tenure in a particularly taxing era for the intelligence community that he heads.
Tenet is the son of Greek immigrants who grew up in Queens, N.Y.
Some close to Tenet have said the job overseeing more than a dozen agencies that make up the intelligence community has been taxing for him. He suffered heart problems while at the National Security Council during the Clinton administration, although a CIA official said his resignation was not health related.
On Capitol Hill, 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."
Online at: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/060304dnnattenet.2260c3cbe.html
what you describe is exactly what is going to happen. the media frenzy begins now.
There wasn't even a hint that this was going to happen today - no leaks, no stories or "tips" that I saw. Something is brewing, this guy didn't just wake up this morning and say "I think I'll resign today for family and financial reasons".
Perhaps Tenet was frightened into resigning by Gore's fiery speech last week... </sarcasm>
You're exactly right!
McCain for DCI. Maybe it will shut him up.
MoodyBlu
the next Director will be Rep. Porter Goss (R-FL)
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