CIA Tenet resigns...is it a big deal?

[dd74]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/03/tenet.resigns/index.html

[kach22i]

It's a big deal.

Another rat leaves the sinking administration ship.

Lets hope his tell-all book comes out before November.

[singpilot]

I'd be willing to bet that the part about his work and efforts during Slick Willies' administration would be better reading.

[techweenie]

My favorite quote on the subject by GWB:

"I told him I'm sorry he's leaving. He's done a superb job on behalf of the American people."

There's that magical word, 'superb'. Maybe that's a clue that 'superb' Rumsfeld is going, too.

Or maybe it was just the big word of the month on GWB's desk calendar.

[kach22i]

Originally posted by techweenie
Or maybe it was just the big word of the month on GWB's desk calendar.

I had a boss who had one of those, but he was 80 years old and sharp as a tack.

[island911]

Perhaps 'superb' was just the big word of the month on GWB's desk calendar. . .and Tenent is leaving because he has some terminal illness, and GW used his new-word to throw him a generous good-bye.

Or perhaps, Tenent is off to write a book, in Clinton appointee style.

Whatever. . .The guy is leaving, 'for personal reasons" and now the left figures it's political dig time.

[kach22i]

Originally posted by island911
Whatever. . .The guy is leaving, 'for personal reasons" and now the left figures it's political dig time.

It's always personal reasons, it seem unfortunate to also always be political dig time.

Condi aint sticking around (loud cheer), Powell aint sticking around (another cheer). The no one left standing administration.

[cowtown]

Originally posted by kach22i
Condi aint sticking around (loud cheer), Powell aint sticking around (another cheer). The no one left standing administration.

Is this reported somewhere, or your hunch? I'd be very surprised to see Rice resign. I'd be a bit less surprised if Powell goes, but I don't think anyone's announced anything.

I thought Tenet would stick it out, the way Bush stood behind him up to now.

[dd74]

Originally posted by kach22i
The no one left standing administration.

LOL...

Nah, Rice will take over Powell's spot most probably. Rumsfeld may or may not go. My bet is he stays. He's got to see his war through.

Cheney on the other hand looks one step away from a coronary, plus he's got bad liberal ju-ju all over him. I look for him to retire back to Jackson Hole, Wyoming (or wherever he goes) as a billionaire.

[singpilot]

The answer to the question is that it is not a big deal.

Unless Joe says it is.

Then we all should concede that it is a big deal, and get righteously indignant. And how it must be a commie plot, or another defection from a sinking ship. And who knew this was coming? We need a Congressional investigation here. After all, Tenet could be the missing link between OBL and Michael Jackson.

I mean, where does it all stop?

[Superman]

Sure, Sing. Makes you wonder why they quit having all those Lewinski hearings, doesn't it? I mean, blowjobs in the White House versus deciding to attack a middle east country on the strength of intelligence that now appears to have been flawed beyond incompetence....easy to see why they should just drop the current question after spending years investigating the former. Oh, the unfairness of it all. Poor Dubya can't even make a small honest mistake without being crucified by the liberal media. I guess that'd be the same media that covered the Lewinski matter. I wonder if there is a man, woman or child in America today above age 6 that does not know what happened in the Oval Office that day. But I sure hope Dubya is not made to explain his decision in more detail.

I guess I should not use sarcasm here since I have suggested to others that they just clearly state their positions instead...but I could not resist.

[azasadny]

He'll just be replaced with another lying crony....

[jyl]

Tenent was clearly "squeezed out". He wouldn't otherwise have resigned just months from the end of the Administration's term. Seems like a decent man but made some big mistakes, number one might be not standing up to political pressure.

Powell has been pushed off to the side by Cheney and Rumsfield. His advice has been ignored, the "Powell Doctrine" is abandoned. I think he is continuing to serve out of a sense of duty, and will leave after this term.

Rice seems to remain "teacher's pet", and has avoided being directly linked to any major screw-up. I think she stays. Unfortunate, as I think she's a complete failure - an elegant, articulate "front man" for the Administration, but ineffective in her real job.

Rumsfield gets to sink or swim with Bush, I would think. He's such a symbol of the Administration, and Bush has so publicly blessed his decisions, that firing Rumsfield would be an admission of Bush's own errors.

Dunno about Cheney. I'd guess that if his health permits, he'll stay in a second Bush Administration (assuming). I mean, he and Karl Rove probably shape most of the decisions in the White House. One alternative, though, might be if Bush is in enough trouble at the Republican Convention that Karl Rove decides he needs a different VP candidate to "deliver" a crucial vote - maybe a woman.

[dd74]

Bush/Rice - there's the president/vice president ticket. A winner!

[JonSeigel]

Originally posted by singpilot
I'd be willing to bet that the part about his work and efforts during Slick Willies' administration would be better reading.

"When Clinton lied, nobody died."

[techweenie]

"When Clinton lied, nobody died."

A truth so clear, even a neocon can understand it.

[Freeman]

Chalabi. Iran.

[kach22i]

Originally posted by cowtown
Is this reported somewhere, or your hunch? I'd be very surprised to see Rice resign. I'd be a bit less surprised if Powell goes, but I don't think anyone's announced anything.

I thought Tenet would stick it out, the way Bush stood behind him up to now.

Below is something that I posted on 01/07/04 in another forum, it's all old news now- where have you been?

Condi Rice is leaving Bush

First Ari said he was leaving, and now Rice....can Powell be far behind?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/07/p...print&position=
Now, as Ms. Rice heads into what she insists will be her last year of service in the White House, she and other top Bush advisers have begun to lift the veil of secrecy about her relationship with the president, with whom she spends an extraordinary amount of time.

Here is some more speculation on who will not see past 2004:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003...l?from=storyrhs
The Secretary of State, Colin Powell, and his deputy, Richard Armitage, have indicated to the White House that they intend to step down, even if President George Bush is re-elected in 2005.


http://www.iht.com/articles/102701.html
Tenet was appointed by Bush's Democratic predecessor, President Bill Clinton,


http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/080503D.shtml
State Dept. Changes Seen if Bush Reelected Powell and Armitage Intend to Step Down
By Glenn Kessler
The Washington Post
Monday 04 August 2003


http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Stor...1058885,00.html
There is mounting speculation in Washington that Mr Rumsfeld will be dropped from the administration before the November election.

Oh yes, the good old days:

Fleischer resigning White House post
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS...ischer.resigns/
"You just reach a point where you have to look into your heart and know that it's time to go," Fleischer, 42, told reporters at the White House briefing

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[cowtown]

Originally posted by kach22i
it's all old news now- where have you been?

I guess we'll see.

I still bet that Rice stays, despite journalistic guesses to the contrary. I could be wrong, but so could they.

[cowtown]

Originally posted by kach22i
Below is something that I posted on 01/07/04 in another forum, it's all old news now- where have you been?

Condi Rice is leaving Bush

Hey Kach22i, is being kicked upstairs the same as leaving?