If he's responsible, why didn't Tenet resign?

[whirlygigspin]

Still waiting for his resignation...2,3,4...

[prolesunited]

1. Probably wasn't part of the deal

They probably told him to say it was his fault and they wouldn't fire him.

[grasswire]

2. they dare not cut him loose

He knows too much, and they probably also have something on him. They are locked into a death spiral together.

[BlueCollar]

14. kinda like

a certain CIA director who allegedly died of brain cancer just as the Iran-Contra affair was breaking open during the Reagan-Poppy Bush reign?

[gratuitous]

3. Well, there's the $64 question

Usually when someone screws up so badly that thousands of people die, there's some kind of reckoning. Of course in this, The Administration of Someone Else's Fault, nobody lost his job in the aftermath of September 11. Nobody was forced to tender a resignation over the continuing Afghanistan mess. And nobody is going to be held responsible for the Illegal Iraq Invasion.

Well, there are all those dead soldiers and civilians, but they hardly matter to this corrupt administration. What's really important is control of those rich oil fields. Since the true objective was accomplished, what's a little bloodshed? Okay, a lot of bloodshed? Besides, it probably wasn't anybody you know (very well) or were related to (so very closely) now, was it? If it was, the corrupt Bush administration offers its deepest sympathy, warmest condolences, and please get going now.

[wtmusic]

4. He has no honor

"I just really did an awful job at work, I messed up something that resulted in the losses of thousands of lives. But I'm still here."

[deacon]

5. a slick bushie in an attempt to put himself back on a pedistal

however, it was so transparent and amatuerish it has be downright laughable.

arrogance arrogance and more arrogance.

[tico]

6. I've been waiting since 9/11

How he'd managed to stay around after that is beyond mond-boggling. I bet now he regrets not resigning then.

[Lexingtonian]

7. He's smarter than they are

He's confessing to a "crime" any serious investigation is going to exonerate him of. The White House is desperate for any cover at all and is ducking behind anything he's willing to offer. Unfortunately, all he's been able to give them against the incoming projectiles is the defensive equivalent of a wet sheet of toilet paper.

No matter what happens Tenet escapes almost unscathed. The signs have been out there that they intended to hang any PR problems with the Niger uranium on him for a couple of weeks, so he's had some time to figure out just how to escape the bullets from either side.

[ButterflyBlood]

8. cause he wanted to stab Bush in the back

and just did, doing us all a huge favor.

[alcatraz]

9. Tenet needs to stay in there.

He's the most powerful check on the fascists that we have right now. Imagine that, a Democrat in Washington with a spine!

[newyawker99]

18. Hi alcatraz!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[OneTwentyoNine]

10. Because the suitcase full of money hasn't arrived yet...

Tenet may take all the heat and blame that Chimpboy should be receiving but a shit load of money can make it seem much,much better on the way out the door.

Right now,my guess is that Tenet and the Bush crime family are in high level discussions as to how much money that would be to take ALL the blame of thousands of deaths in Iraq off of Bush and his administration. When the money is right then Tenet is gone...

David

[trof]

11. what are his politics?

dem? repug?
couldn't find anything but this bio is interesting
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/gen/resources/players/tenet/

[izzie]

12. Losers get jobs with these people.

n/t

[jcgadfly]

13. Tenet is a team player

and he just took one for the team.

[opihimoimoi]

15. Bush was smirking when he referred to Tennet as a good guy

The lie that was supposed to break the camels back....only hurt him.

[blkgrl]

16. It still all goes back to Bush...

Wasn't Tenet in the audience when Bush gave the address? Did Tenet tell the administration about the mess up immediately afterwards, and if so, why didn't Bush retract his words immediately (before a LIVE audience)? And if Tenet did NOT immediately inform Bush of the mistake, then he really SHOULD be asked to resign-- in order to maintain consistency.

[tjdee]

17. Exactly. WHEN did Bush 'find out'?

They were perfectly content to perpetuate a lie until Wilson came out.
And, as Edwards says, "the president and the White House staff are ultimately responsible for what the president says."

[rhino91063]

19. He is bush's designated scape goat

He covered for him about 9/11 and he is doing the same with the Uranium lie. The problem is the Washington Post has reported that he lie had been lifted in an earlier speech.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

20. They won't let him resign, because he would talk

If he were forced to resign, or fired, or whatever, he would surely start to talk. Or write a book.