Shouldn't we be thrilled Tenet is finally gone?

[theboss]

The one thing getting lost in all the Why did he go?/Was he fired?/Will he turn on Bush? threads is the fact that a horrible CIA director is finally gone.

Stepping back and being non-partisan for a moment, shouldn't Americans demanded that appointed officials in Washington show a minimum level of competence? Tenet was a disaster.

And it's not like he started being incompetent on Bush's orders. He was displaying a remarkable capacity for failure during the Clinton Administration. He didn't know that Pakistan had nuclear weapons, he didn't know where the Chinese embassy was, he didn't know our embassies were going to be attacked, he didn't know what a pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan was making, he thought Saddam had WMD in '98, he still thought it was a "slam dunk" in '03, etc.

Frankly, I don't care why he left or who showed him the door. He's gone and it is a good thing.

And any Democrat who embraces him as a potential Bush foil is a fool. He should not be an ally.

We should pick him up by the feet and use him as instrument to beat Bush on the head, yelling, "Why did you praise this moron?" "Why didn't you fire him on September 12, 2001?"

[Fleshdancer]

1. I don't know...

I have a sense of forboding doom thinking about what kind of person Cheney and Rumsfield would choose for CIA director if they got their way.

:scared:

[RafterMan]

2. If you get out of surgery

and the doctor says, "Well, we got part of the tumor..." you're not going to be thrilled.

As for why we shouldn't use him as a weapon, the response will be, "But Clinton hired him!" -- not a productive road.

The best outcome is for him to start sharing Bush stories.

[theboss]

3. I don't care if Clinton hired him

Clinton made plenty of mistakes and Tenet was one of his biggest.

Do we have to embrace an incompetent because one of our own hired him?

[RafterMan]

6. No, we don't have to "embrace" him

But because Clinton hired him, attacking his incompetence is rhetorically moot.

[seabeyond]

4. i dont know yet if tenet was bad, or bad beacause of bush

from about 98 on he and clarke and clinton seemed to be getting it. prior to 9/11 he seemed to understand the issue. bush wasnt looking.

[Old and In the Way]

5. Time will tell...........

Personally, I think the CIA was institutionalized to fight an enemy that no longer exists. With the fall of the Soviet Union, their mission changed, but they haven't changed their structure to reflect this nebulous "Al Qaeda" threat. And maybe they simply can't fight an unknown enemy....because we should be dealing with this threat as an international criminal enterprise, not a state sponsored identifiable entity.

Personally, I think Tenet was used by this administration....he was the ultimate "fall guy", more useful to keep on as an insurance policy for blame if things turned to shit...as it has. So now we are hearing the Republicans in Congress and the Republican corporate media orchestrating the new line ---> it's all the fault the CIA. Bullshit. This administration let 9/11 occur. This administration distorted the intel to make their political decision to go to war.

Tenet's error was believing that this administration had the best interests of this country in mind, when they simply used CIA to further their narrow political/financial agenda.