Business as usual for CIA's Tenet

[leftchick]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4157303/

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The morning after President Bush announced he would empower a tough-minded commission to investigate the failings of U.S. intelligence agencies, the man who coordinates those agencies walked into the Oval Office.

CIA Director George J. Tenet sat down on the couch, cracked open a notebook and spent a half-hour yesterday describing threats to the United States -- as he has nearly every day since Bush took office in January 2001.

Faulty prewar intelligence on Iraq has put the CIA under scrutiny as never before in Tenet's nearly seven-year tenure. But White House officials point to yesterday's business-as-usual briefing as a sign that Tenet's working relationship with Bush remains solid.

Moreover, administration officials, Republican leaders and associates of Tenet's consider it highly unlikely that Tenet will resign anytime soon -- voluntarily or otherwise -- because of his relationship with the president and because the administration would find little political advantage in forcing him out in an election year.

[AliceWonderland]

1. Faulty prewar intelligence on Iraq

If it was faulty prewar intelligence, how did the poor poor CIA get fooled, yet we didn't? Honestly. I get told my internet sources are invalid by wingnuts and yet this gets reported as straight fact by "legitimate news outlets." That pisses me off.

[teryang]

2. Business as usual equals Ricin

Tenet has got to go.