The wrong George
So George Tenet is out. He resigned this morning to spend more time with his family. Isn’t that what they always say?
The Guardian reports:
Tenet spoke to CIA personnel at a late-morning gathering at the CIA auditorium. “It was a personal decision, and had only one basis in fact: the well being of my wonderful family, nothing more and nothing less,” he said, according to a CIA official who was willing to describe Tenet’s talk with CIA workers but only on grounds of anonymity because Tenet had spoken for himself.
Bush kicked in his heartfelt kudos this morning. I’m getting misty just thinking about it. Of course, no questions were taken after the announcement. This comes as a real surprise from a guy who has held fewer press conferences than any president in the modern age. Sure, tell me about how it’s because he’s all business. I’ll tell you about how he’s taken more vacation days than any president in history.
Of interesting note, the Guardian also reported that retired Adm. Stansfield Turner (former CIA Director) thought Tenet was pushed out. He had this to say:
“I think the president feels he’s in enough trouble that he’s got to begin to cast some of the blame for the morass that we are in in Iraq to somebody else, and this was one subtle way to do it”.