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| J. M. Berger: Did Tenet Resign to Avoid Chalabi Investigation? |
| 2004-06-04 |
| From IntelWire .... Perhaps the most likely explanation [for CIA Director George Tenet’s resignation] has to do with Ahmad Chalabi, an Iraqi nationalist favored by the Pentagon who stands accused of revealing U.S. intel secrets to Iran. Just hours before Tenet’s surprise resignation, National Security Adviser Condi Rice announced that Tenet would personally head an investigation into Chalabi on the basis of unspecified national security concerns. The timing of the two announcements is highly suggestive. It appears likely that Rice had no inkling that Tenet would be resigning just hours later. There are any number of reasons why Tenet might not want to oversee such an investigation, which is likely to embarrass several high-ranking members of the administration. And embarrassment is only the least of the possible outcomes. .... "I can imagine Tenet is just livid to discover, if this is the case, that someone in or affiliated with the Pentagon had caused this disaster to happen. I can imagine him thinking this was the straw that broke the camel’s back, so to speak. But this is pure speculation on my part," Washington Post Associate Editor Robert G. Kaiser said in an Internet chat today. (external link) .... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #2 Tenet has the second longest tenure as DCI in the history of the position. He's put in his time and then some. Most likely he's been wanting to leave for a while and finally got the nod from Bush. |
| Posted by: jn1 2004-06-04 1:36:25 PM |
| #1 I vaguely remember that the previous head of the CIA (a professor in MIT) was forced to resigned because something very bad happened. A CIA spy ring was caught in Iraq and all its members were executed. I think something very bad just happened (we may never know what) and Tenet was forced out. My two centavos |
| Posted by: Lizzel 2004-06-04 9:45:15 AM |