Tenet is in deep.

[Timefortruth]

Panel Faults CIA's Spying

WASHINGTON — The CIA has ignored its core mission of spying, has refused to take corrective action and is heading "over a proverbial cliff" after years of poor planning and mismanagement, the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee has concluded in the latest congressional broadside aimed at America's premier intelligence agency.

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Recent investigations into the CIA's failures on Sept. 11 and in prewar reports on Iraq chiefly have blamed agency analysts, who assess classified information from satellite photos, stolen documents and other intelligence. However, the House committee warned in its majority report that the CIA's problems were broader and in some respects had worsened in recent years.

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Democrats, who said they were surprised by the harsh language in the report, said Goss could be asserting his independence from the CIA in a bid to replace Tenet, who is stepping down July 11 as CIA director and nominal head of America's 14 other intelligence agencies. James L. Pavitt, who has headed the CIA operations directorate for five years, also announced that he was quitting.

In a two-page letter to Goss on Wednesday night, Tenet said he was "deeply disappointed" at the criticism of the clandestine service.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-intel24jun24,1,7051732.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Earlier in the week in an interview Wolfowitz claimed Chalabi wasn't as bad as he has been portrayed. In fact, according to Wolfowitz, Chalabi helped with intelligence a great deal. The interviewer pointed out that Tenet contradicts that view. Wolfowitz was then asked who he believes Tenet or Chalabi? Wolfowitz's answer was, effectively, that he believes Chalabi.

They are going to pin everything on Tenet, by the time they're done with him he'll be responsible for the Bay of Pigs.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. WiIl F9/11 help push things back on *?

[sallyseven]

2. They are scum

Chalabi is a crook and thief. Just like bush and wolfewitz. Tenet is going to be the scape goat. Watch a book come out in a month or so to debunk what bush did about 9-11

[sallyseven]

3. They are scum

Chalabi is a crook and thief. Just like bush and wolfewitz. Tenet is going to be the scape goat. Watch a book come out in a month or so to debunk what bush did about 9-11

[Career Prole]

4. Why do people still listen to Wolfowitz?

That slimy little a**hole has been nothing but wrong everytime he's opened his mouth.

"In fact, according to Wolfowitz, Chalabi helped with intelligence a great deal."

Yeah, ya douchebag...Iran echoes your sentiment.

[havocmom]

5. I don't think Tenet & Team CIA are done with this game.

They are just moving chess pieces slowly and carefully. The neocons are all rush and shout and not much foresight. Do not count the spooks down and out just yet.

The fact that the GOP go-fers in Congress are trying to play pin the tail on Tenent is a sign of their sense they are in deep doo-doo.

[Timefortruth]

6. Tenet only has a couple weeks left at CIA.

What can he do in that amount of time. Also, the replacement they are talking about sounds like a perfect Nazi.

[Disturbed]

7. Tenet went along.

Tenet bootclicked BushCo and got his reward;a kick in the ass. The rank & file of the CIA are seething. The Right Wing attack and scapegoating of the Agency will have payback.

Look up The Office of Special Plans.

[havocmom]

9. He is leaving the CIA, not the planet

What, you think he won't stay in the game? He seems to be the sort of chap who backs his people. The Plame outing and fallout must've pissed him off royally. I would speculate being out of the office would allow more room to really take care of things.

[Timefortruth]

10. You know , I'm doubtful.

He isn't a man that has displayed the courage of his convictions so far, but now he has to move to the defensive which could change everything.

It was always baffling that he played ball with these Bozos in the first place, I thought he was seduced by power. Without the power he will have nothing to lose.

[Timefortruth]

11. You know , I'm doubtful.

He isn't a man that has displayed the courage of his convictions so far, but now he has to move to the defensive which could change everything.

It was always baffling that he played ball with these Bozos in the first place, I thought he was seduced by power. Without the power he will have nothing to lose.

[Kimber Scott]

18. If Tenet is any kind of spook he can pull anything out of his ass -

even Bush's lies. If he doesn't, maybe what they're saying about him is true.

[BillZBubb]

8. Tenet has already shown his spine of jello.

He was willing to play ball with BushCo and take the fall whenever they needed a patsy. Nobody is afraid of him or anything he says. He is totally discredited. If he couldn't see this coming, given how he bent over for Bush* at every turn, he's even dumber than I imagined. I'm sure he's got "Fall Guy" tatooed on his ass.

As for the CIA, they're probably just as internally divided as the rest of the country. There will not be any unified push to oust the criminals running this country. Maybe a few patriots acting independently will provide crucial information from time to time, but that's about the extent of it.

[Cleita]

12. It's classical fascism. Never take the blame for anything as

long as you can find a convenient scapegoat. And there are always scapegoats handy.

[Ugnmoose]

13. Tenet will get his revenge

He is spilling his guts to Plame prosecutor Fitzgerald. Just wait until the indictments start to fly.

[eyeontheprize]

14. That may be why he "resigned."

He told chimp that he was going to testify truthfully and that was that. Tenet was looking for opportunities elsewhere.

There is also the issue of Anonymous the current "high level" (Tenet?) CIA employee who wrote a book about what morans the folks in the administration are, it has been approved by the CIA for release. The administration can't be happy about that news.

[havocmom]

17. I wondered about that too. Who is Anonymous? Tenet? Plame?

somebody is not gonna let the junta off the hook.

[KoKo]

15. I believe Wolfie started out in the Pentagon so if he loves Chalabi then

there's your answer...in bed with each other. Not literaly but figuratively... No real reporting there.. Agree with poster who said SCUM!

[eyeontheprize]

16. Tenet is in for some long months ahead,

but it is interesting that there is no interest inn Freeh and his monumental failures. Could it be that these issues are partisan?