Posted on 06/03/2004 7:30:15 AM PDT by cyncooper
Breaking News on Fox
I have seen that too.
Good one! I am sure Paula, Larry, Chris, Aaron and all the other MEDIA libs will have this all covered from every angle before midnight eastern!
Bumbler Tenet Finally Gone from CIA
Great and Long Overdue News: CIA director George Tenet, who holds the dubious distinction of being the first CIA director to preside at a "Gay Pride Day" at the agency, has resigned. A holdover from the Clinton Administration, Tenet presided at the event, which took place at the agency on June 6, 2000, and demonstrated the misplaced priorities at the CIA. Tenet welcomed openly homosexual Rep. Barney Frank to the affair, telling the congressman that the agency is "recruiting very actively" in the homosexual community.
As we reported, the CIA and FBI learned back in 1995 that Osama bin Laden was planning to hijack U.S. airliners and use them as bombs to attack important targets in the U.S. It was called Project Bojinka.
Reed Irvine and I noted on September 27, 2001, that, "Bin Laden showed his contempt for the CIA and the FBI by training many of his hijackers under their noses at American flight schools. The FBI is now busy identifying Middle Easterners who have attended those schools. If they and the CIA had kept Project Bojinka in mind, they would have begun this long ago, and the CIA would have checked the names for ties to Osama bin Laden. Louis Freeh resigned as FBI director. Now it is CIA director George Tenet’s turn."
www.aim.org/cliff_blog
By the way I think Rush mistaked Tenet for Woolsey.
Well I got a shrine thread over at LP for being appauled that Dick Morris called President Bush a pussy! Neener neener neener!!!! ;)
Wendell Goler on Fox says the same thing now.
Now that I believe.....
Powell needs to run them off....
This is exactly why Tenet will not embark on a campaign to smear President Bush. This is Great News (150 days from the election ... :-)
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How much do you want to bet that Tenet speaks out in defense of President Bush, and BLASTS the democrats
Talk about striking fear into the hearts of asshats at the DNC.
I agree with another poster (Sandy in Seattle?) who stated she thinks the Deputy CIA Director, John McLaughlin will serve from July (11 I think) on until after the election, and perhaps permanently. He's getting praise from some of the CIA types in the know that have been speaking with the press.
[Now to see the door on the execrable Mineta's arse!]
He should pick John Lehman, and this will just BURY the 9-11 Commission Report...because the best member of that commission will be the CIA director.
Who gives a f? The media hates Bush. That is a given. Screw um. We have a freekin job to do!
Did you use it as a noun? :-)
He may be a Clinton appointee .. but I don't think he is any fan of Clinton's
George Tenet should have stayed around until after the election. This follows a pattern of the White House giving more and more ammunition to the Librats. It opens the President up to further discrediting by his opponents and does strain his reelection chances.
Tenet was not involved in that Iraqi fiasco in '97.
well, I gotta tell ya, I don't envy anyone who takes that job. Being director of intelligence is like being an old testament prophet, you're hated for crying "wolf!" all the time, dismissed if the warned about disasters don't happen, and tarred'n'feathered when the bad guys get through the defenses.
That being said, I offer my thanks to Mr. Tenet for staying at the helm during what must have been one of the darkest periods in our intel agency's history. In a recent speech at Georgetown U., Tenet made clear and direct reference to the fact that rebuilding the Agency assets from the gutting they took ten years ago would last at least another five years. He was there when our Congress under Clinton started cutting back on intel, when the "gorelick wall of shame" was put up, and I believe he stood in the fire to continue guiding the resurgence of the agency despite the near-certainty that he would take the most heat. He didn't didibop like Woolsley did, and though Woolsley had some incisive remarks about the previous administration intel failures, those remarks were made from the outside where they made little effect. Tenet hung in there - perhaps like a sailor manning the flooding pumps on a ship listing seriously to port, but he didn't abandon ship, even if the then-captain (clinton) was mad as a cockeyed goose.
There's a saying that some are men of destiny, and some are defined by destiny. Though we may not ever know it, I think that a CIA afflicted with a string of short-term directors-leaving because of conflicts with the administration would ultimately have been destroyed - just what the left and the likes of Kerry (who has said as much with his voting record) would have wanted. Well, it's easy to do your duty when you are flushed with success, good fortune and a smiling star; but standing in the den of wolves that seek to dismantle the national intelligence apparatus for which you are responsible??? - that certainly is one definition of doing one's duty.
Tenet stands in the latter category, but Stand He Did.
CGVet58
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