Posted: 6/3/2004 6:33:30 AM EDT
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Johnny_Reno: Same here Clinton-appointed Tenet is responsible for the BS that is going around in the CIA. Hiring politically correct people who have no inkling what intelligence is, studying global warming BS. This not a job for the CIA. Maybe national wether service, but not CIA. |
Actually, wasn't it Tom Ridge and the DHS that came up with the color coating of the terror level? I'm tired of people expecting the CIA to be the cure all for US security and intel. Expecting perfection from an orginization that operates on chance and speculation, and rarely has 100% reliable data is obsurd. Hind sight is 20/20, and crucifying one man for the percieved mistakes of many is just rediculous. |
With the title of Director comes the responsibilty for your subordinates. You are only as "good" as the people working for you. |
Well, we can all thank Clinton for the shortcomings of the military and intel of this country. Tenet has been crying for years about getting their hands untied when it comes to matters such as terrorism. It's the typical mindset when suits look at badges. We won't give them enough money or leeway to do the job right, and when they do the job wrong, we'll whine about their inadaquicies. |
If Director of CIA was such a bad gig, then turn it down. |
No, the reason you don't turn down a job like that, is because you believe that you can improve the organization. He tried, and now they want to hang him because they wouldn't let him succeed. That's pretty shitty. |
Uhhhh I could not have said it better myself Thanks Mac 
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Sorry, I guess I have been living in a different world than you. Tenet could have knocked the ball out of the park with a valid, ACCURATE assessment of the threats posed by al-Queda, Iraq, North Korea and other violent opponents to the US. I must have missed where the 10+ years worth of intelligence from the Tenet run CIA helped us any in the recent past. As Director of the CIA, you are only as good as the people with whom you surround yourself. |
Even during Clinton's rein there was a "few" failures, the USA bombed an asprin factory and a foreign embassy by mistake. It was though they were hiding WMDs. Shortcomimgs of the CIA. |
Won't be long before Tenet writes a book trying to make money by blaming HIS utter incompetency which spanned TWO Presidents squarely on GWBush. What a fucking loser, he belongs right along with O'Neil and Clarke on the ash-heap of inept, bureaurocratic bunglers. |
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The big question is why he stayed so long. Any normal person would have broken under the criticism long before now. I beleve that he is quitting for personal reasons. He has been psychologically broken by the criticism and he simply cannot take the abuse anymore. |
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I'd be willing to bet that the Ahmed Chalabi disaster is the straw that broke the camel's back.. that chump was responsible for most of our on-the-ground intel about WMD, Iraqi troop movements, civilian response to a US invasion, etc etc.. and then we find out he's been selling us out to Iran for years? I'll bet Dubya has Tenet's balls in a glass jar on his desk, next to Saddam's pistol. |
Chalabi was being heavily promoted by some folks at the Pentagon. The CIA never thought too highly of him. |
Perhaps not personally, but discovering his connection to Iran would have been squarely CIA territory. Regardless, I see this as a good move. The undertone of Tenet being fired makes Bush look proactive for his next term. |
If you believe the story of how Chalabi was caught, then it would have been most likely exposed by the NSA, not the CIA. |
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