Posted on 06/03/2004 7:30:15 AM PDT by cyncooper
Breaking News on Fox
Stop placing the blame on Tenet, he did his job or did it the best he could- who should really be blamed? Members of Congress, who politizied intelligence. I hope him the best.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that had this thought. I think President Bush truly likes this man. Fox showed a clip of a previous event where President Bush grabs him by the neck and gives him the guy hug and both are kind of laughing. You know, kind of a manly one, don't want to get too mushy.
I guess folks can find good and bad in everyone's life and we still haven't ruled out the WMD are not in Syria or elsewhere.
Only time will tell what the true story is, maybe it's just what he said. I think most of the intel jobs are thankless ones and you're the goat when something happens. Thankfully for us there are those who are willing to serve to protect us as best as they can.
Rumsfeld said the terrorists only have to be right once, we have to be right 100% of the time.
Here's some more:
All the resignations were over President Clinton's decision to sign a welfare bill that the officials thought would be a disaster for the poor and the country. Even more remarkable: Two of these officials chose not only to make a statement of principle but to do so in a way that was about as loyal to Clinton as they could be under the circumstances. They did not quit until after the Democratic National Convention, thus minimizing the political damage their resignations might cause the president. Clearly these were people interested in making a point, not in garnering maximum publicity for themselves.
The resignations of top Department of Health and Human Services officials Peter Edelman, Mary Jo Bane and Wendell Primus – Edelman and Bane quit last Wednesday, Primus earlier
http://www.courses.psu.edu/hd_fs/hd_fs597_rxj9/resigning.htm
And I forgot:
Henry Cisneros
Webb Hubbell
Mike Espy
William Kennedy III (helicopter trip!)
the surgeon general....what was her name?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/stories/cis031595a.htm
Mack McLarty.
And I know there were a lot more of his personal appointments.
Still looking.
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See RICK RESCORLA's Vietnam Base Camp Area in 1st Photo:
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
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Take out the Clintoon holdover trash.
Mike (sp) Espy, Agriculture Secretary resigned. Even though Surgeon General isn't cabinet position, its still a high level appointee and Elders did resign. Then there is Webb Hubell.
947? That's it? 947?
I was sure that this one was going to hit 1000.
Damn
Yes, keep an eye on this. DDCI and acting DCI Mclaughlin is also a 'toon appointee.
Assistant Army Secretary Sara E. Lister, a Washington lawyer who successfully pressed the military to open more jobs to women, abruptly resigned yesterday, attempting to quell a furor she created by branding the Marines "extremists."
Robert Rubin.
WASHINGTON – The head of the tiny but influential Office of Air and Space Commercialization at the U.S. Commerce Department has resigned, sources told space.com Friday and the Commerce Department confirmed.
Published: Apr 22, 2002
WASHINGTON (AP) - An embattled ombudsman at the Environmental Protection Agency submitted his resignation Monday, complaining the agency was transferring him into a job where he would "merely answer a telephone" and have no power Robert Martin, who for nearly a decade has held the $118,000-a-year job as ombudsman for EPA's hazardous waste office, has been embroiled in lengthy feud with senior EPA officials going back to the Clinton administration.
Dr. John H. Gibbons, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, resigned March 15 from his White House post and as Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Gibbons made the announcement February 13.
President Clinton accepted Gibbons’ resignation with regret in a speech to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. President Clinton expressed his gratitude for Gibbons’ years of valuable service to the Nation and for his leadership in ensuring that America remains at the forefront of scientific capability.
I have been following this thread from the office and couldn't comment much earlier. I agree with you on Tenet and your earlier comments on Powell. I still think Tenet may now be unconstrained to speak his mind come fall and that may well help the President.
Maybe it was his attempt to imitate Franklin D. Roosevelt. I didn't know his drunken stumble down the stairs injured him enough for a wheelchair.
Robert Reich resigned after Clinton's first term also.
What does that make now? 11 or 12?
Oh, Secretary of Defense, Les Aspin and IIRC, Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor resigned also.
Indeed he did use it as an attempt. He didn't have a wheelchair as is commonly seen in hospitals. Nope, he had one made of wood and rattan, as FDR used. AND he took to wearing those wirte-rimmed glasses about that time, too.
You didn't have the cojones to challenge me on the forum. Instead, you chose to come at me on FReepMail. So be it.
But I just noticed this extra little dig you threw in. I've been a member of FR longer then you and the choice of using "Reagan" as part of my handle, honors a great American President. FReeper "oceanview" asked you to cut the DU crap. I'm also making the same request. That goes for now and in the future.
I also suggest you keep your emotions in check, so as not to look like a fool in the future.
Was it Larry Lindsay from the Treasury Dept?
I counted 18 that I posted; I've got people, aka the family, coming in and out of here, so it's hard for me to search.
And as far as I know, Bush has had
John O'Neill - to Kerry campaign
KENNETH DeGRAFFENREID - to Kerry campaign
Rand Beers (and his wife) to Kery campaign
KAREN KWIATKOWSKI - to Kerry campaign
I'm not sure how you could Zinni and Joe Wilson, but they both are helping Kerry now.
Yes, it was; he and O'Neill resigned at the same time.
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