At least he goes out with the praise of his President,
Former CIA Director James Woolsey got burned down by Emperor Clintonius...State Dept and Pentagon going for James's throat,
Congress...pissed at the monies spent on The Iraqi Bay of Pigs fiasco...the talking hand puppet known as Ahmed Chalabi.
In some ways..Tenets misfortune mirrors Woolsey's.
How do yo turn off a thing going south.
How do you save your honor..when others have decieved you..and you are connected to them.....even on the periphery.
So many debacles from Emperor Clintonius's time....damage still running into the Bush Admin.
Congress headed off a huge fiasco concerning the Chinese Ballistic Missile threat...*The Rumsfeld report.
CIA asleep at the wheel again...
Hansen,Ames...Global Crossing,Fibre optics grid,compromised intel..monies to account for,
then the second level damage...American firms selling technology to China.
Chalabi again...more damage.
Could the main problem be the bookends stance of State Dept and Pentagon?
Is any CIA director doomed by this reality?
Short answer: NO. Bill Casey sure wasn't. His operations complemented the DOD's efforts, and led directly to the downfall of the USSR. Not to say there was never any blow-back, but that is always a risk in covert ops.