Congratulations, as have I.
To suggest otherwise based entirely on my stated disenchantment with George Tenet is ridiculous, but typical of straight party line voters everywhere.
I typically vote Conservative or Republican or Right-to-Life, though I've been known to stray from those tickets. I've never even considered voting for a losing candidate in a close race, and will never throw away my vote for losing causes. I'll work within the Republican party for change, and in primary contests.
No matter what you would like to believe about Tenet, he has done a remarkably good job in a very difficult time. You are not at all typical in believing that CIA has failed the country in the past three years. What they did in the pre-BASH was incredible, and may well be responsible for the easy march to Baghdad.
As you certainly KNOW, WMD programs were found to be even more well constituted than we thought, according to Kay's report. In addition to what we found, the records successfully destroyed in PCs found with damaged disks or fried themselves attest to far more than may ever be known. Iraqi WMD workers are still afraid for their lives - those who have not been killed by terrorists, and those have been myriad.
As for any "stockpiles" that were the subject of the slamdunk comment, if it were not for FRANCE and GERMAN and the other isolationists and peaceniks throughout this country and the world, they would not have been shipped to whereever they are now. Every intelligence agency, including the French and possibly the best (next to ours), the Israelis', know that those weapons were there prior to 2003. CIA and DIA have confessed that there were shipments to Syria after UN-1441 - and you know full well what that likely consisted of.
Libya has succumbed now to President Bush. Certainly you must suspect CIA had gotten the goods on them in order for that to occur.
In addition, other corroboration of terrorist/Saddam ties has been slow in coming, but trickling out. CIA was again right.
CIA has not and did not fail us, despite the stupid Torcelli and Gorelick debacles. To "blame" 9/11 on CIA is the height of Monday morning quarterbacking, and for evidence I will predict that the greatest of the Monday morning quarterbacks, Congress, will do just that, rather than place the blame on the Torcelli amendment, Congress ignoring the importance of CIA since the fall of the USSR, and the 'Toon/Gorelick/Reno wall.
Tenet has done a remarkable job despite those.
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I'll just note you cite Tenet's job performance of the past three years...and mention he's been in that post for almost eight, and leave it at that.