FWIW, since the US is worried about an attack this summer, I don't think the Senate will dare screw with the confirmation process. No matter how much they'd like to.
Correct, which could account for the timing. This takes the President off the hook for Intel failures since Tenet was a Clinon appointee, and Now the Presidnet can stick his guy in, Right around the time of the Dems Convention.
that is another issue here - Tenet may know of some attacks coming this summer, and wants to get the hell out of the way now.
I don't like any of this.
They will and it will cost them. They still pretend that 9-11 never happened
But this has to be Bush's call. Bush is cleaning house before the election and before the June 30 hand-over.
Confirmation hearings won't take place until after November.
Tenet is taking the fall. That's how it goes.
When have the democrats ever put America first?
I'm glad to see him gone, just don't know why President Bush kept him in the first place. I agree with the others that it will be spun as proof of President Bush's failures in Iraq, WOT, etc.
Wrong, the senate will screw with this until the cows come home. Bush has to show his face on the box and demand to the public that the senate must get off of their @ss and confirm immediately for the country's sake. If they do not move, hammer them.
They will.