Tenet Submits Resignation

June 3, 2004

[cyncooper]

Breaking News on Fox

[Petronski]

Would everyone please leave Monty alone so that he/she will quit asking to be left alone already?

Is that a personal attack or an attack on his person?

[small voice in the wilderness]

No. There simply MUST be more. Because there's a 24-hour news cycle, and they are getting bored with Kobe, Scott, and Abu Gahrib. There are only SO MANY months a newsperson can cover those subjects without going, well, insane. Ask dan rather.

[cgk]

Kristen Breitweiser

At least I know I'm not as stupid as the sheep who don't know who Tenet is, but... who is this?

[Nix 2]

Chalabi was set up like a sniper target and never saw it coming. (Proof.) The idiot Iranian he went scurrying to with this super intelligence didn't know whether to believe him, so he sent a message to Iran using the same code and pinpointed a weapons depot to see if the Americans would raid the location. They didn't because the target was Chalabi and the coded message was supposed to be a trap. Seems like someone was paying a heck of a lot more attention to the Chalabi connection than Chalabi was paying attention to a great Foster Brooks act.

[Gator113]

Nice photo.......were those wheels on the footpad (perhaps kneepads) to keep Monica from tipping the chair over??

[BlessedByLiberty]

LOL!

Could we add the 60 minutes crew and Chrissy Matthews to your list? :)

[Carolinamom]

She's the outspoken, anti-Bush WTT professional widder woman who is constantly on CNN.

[dc-zoo]

Flame? I felt no flames here nor were any intended in your direction. Just ordinary chat. Have a great D-Day weekend. I'm waiting for the Tenet videotape coming up on FOX.

[jmstein7]

C'mon people... I really need you to complete this action item:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1146533/posts

We must get this out there!

[babaloo]

Well, not to any of our surprise, David Gergen interviewed by Linda Vester says this is bad for Bush. LOL! Linda ends the segment by saying that there are those who disagree with Gergen's analysis.

[cake_crumb]

Optimism has nothing to do with it.

I'm sorry to see him go. He wasn't the best, but nowhere near as bad as some here make him out to be.

Whatever his real reasons for resigning, and you can bet there are many, the fact is that the media has been screeching leak, coverup and 9/11 intelligence failure for the past two years. Wilson/Plame, pseudomicrominigate and the allegations the CIA ordered prisoners to wear women's panties were only more recent developements and the icing on the anti-Bush WOT agenda cake.

The media has screwed themselves. The public is not gonna buy the media trying to turn Tenet into a victom after painint him as a villian for so long. They'll TRY. The public just won't but it. Nobody's heart or mind will be changed.

[ClintonBeGone]

Chalabi was set up like a sniper target and never saw it coming. (Proof.) The idiot Iranian he went scurrying to with this super intelligence didn't know whether to believe him, so he sent a message to Iran using the same code and pinpointed a weapons depot to see if the Americans would raid the location. They didn't because the target was Chalabi and the coded message was supposed to be a trap. Seems like someone was paying a heck of a lot more attention to the Chalabi connection than Chalabi was paying attention to a great Foster Brooks act.

I'm not one for grand conspiracies, but this one has a good ending. I think Chalabi's fall from grace served our interest in two ways. First, it showed that we could be objective in our goals even when our hand picked man screws up, and second, it allows the appearance of a less connected (to the USA) leader to be selected. Either way we win. Putting myself in the sandals of an Iraqi, I couldn't help but resent the way Chalabi was shoved down their throats by the US. I didn't think he would have had a very long shelf life.

[dc-zoo]

Pickle boy Gergen is still drinking the clinton coolaid. Another McLaim type. Rarely has anything positive to say.

[AFPhys]

I, too, suspect that this has to do with health reasons or other major personal reasons.
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[cgk]

Thank you... I still don't know who she is, but your mention of CNN says enough ;)

[bunches]

Right you are! What an excellent suggestion.

I've always found Mr. Woolsey to be informative and easy to listen to. Plus capable, obviously.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Politically, I don't think we want to move Cheny to CIA if we're moving him. State or SCOTUS would be better.

[John Lenin]

Cheney isn't going to the CIA. Sheesh.

[Paul Ross]

No fool. The next tell-all bush-bashing book, and the endless round of interviews on 60-minutes and Dateline...

Anyways check out WND's take on this:

Click here.

CIA Director George Tenet submitted his letter of resignation today, President Bush announced.

The president met last night in the White House with Tenet, who said he was stepping down for personal reasons.

George Tenet (Photo: Sky News)

Tenet, who has been at the center of controversy over intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, is expected to serve until mid-July, the president said.

"He's been a strong and able leader at the agency and I will miss him," Bush said in a brief statement. "I send my blessings to George and his family and look forward to working with him until he leaves the agency."

Tenet spoke to CIA personnel this morning.

"It was a personal decision, and had only one basis in fact: the well being of my wonderful family, nothing more and nothing less," Tenet said, according to a CIA official who spoke on condition of anonymity, reported ABC News.

"This [I] say with exceptional pride: The CIA and the American intelligence community are stronger now than when I became DCI [director of central intelligence] seven years ago, and they will be stronger tomorrow than they are today. That is not my legacy. It's yours," the official quoted Tenet as saying.

Many Washington insiders did not expect Tenet to serve beyond November, regardless of who wins the White House.

He was appointed by President Clinton in 1997.

Bush said CIA deputy John McLaughlin will take over temporarily until a successor is found.

McLaughlin is among the possible successors, along with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss, R-Fla., a former CIA agent.

On Capitol Hill, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said, according to the Associated Press: "He served his country a long time. History will tell what the implications of his tenure were.

"I think history will either vindicate him or say, 'Hey there was a problem there'," Hastert said.

Retired Adm. Stansfield Turner, a former CIA director, told CNN he thought Tenet had been made a scapegoat.

"I don't think he would have pulled the plug on President Bush in an election cycle without having been told to do that," said Turner.

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."

Okay, with all the WRONG people suddenly singing Tenet's praises...I am officially skeptical.

[GraniteStateConservative]

You forgot the sarcasm tag.