George Tenet will resign Monday.

Even though the latest information shows that he advised the Bush Administration about the dubious nature of the Niger uranimum story months before the SOTU speech. After the weekend talk shows have been digested, Bush, Card, and Rove will make the decision that Tenet will have to go. He will be asked to resign immediately.

Their hopes are that this will put a damper on the "lie" about Saddam acquiring uranium from Niger. This is step two in their ongoing effort to cover-up this scandal. Step three is still to be decided.

Tenet has been vindicated in this affair, to a large degree. but the Bush people will spin it such that they have taken steps to clear up the matter and it is time to move "forward". How do we know this? Because there is a pattern to their deceptive little minds and it is not difficult to see what direction they are headed.

Mainly about pre-9/11. That is the only reason he is still there.

I wish they would fire him. Then maybe we would get at the truth, with his help of course.

He's gotten too many words of "support" this weekend from * and Rice. Might take until the end of the week.

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First, it will not put to rest the controversy about WMD. Second, it will make the press focus its attention on the role Dick Cheney played in this mess.

The only way they could have induced him to fall on his sword, imo, was to assure him immunity from being fired. If he goes, he tells all.

it is not about the Niger thing. It isn't even about WMDs. It is about a rush to war and the only question is WHY DID THE WH WANT TO OVERRIDE TENENT'S WARNINGS?

is because this Administration does not like to see problems fester. They like to see them taken care of as soon as possible. That is why Condi called Tenet from Africa to request he take blame for the original "lie". They are in damage control mode.

news coverage.

Didn't the SnakePitt of the SEC resign just after the elections?

Don't they tend to do these things at the beginning of a vacation or break - or very late on Fridays?

And we'll all see how dangerous this administration is.

There's a post somewhere with the line-up for the "2nd" Shrub Mal-administration, that Darth RUMS will depart, AND TENET, that ARMITAGE will take TENET's slot.

It's too convoluted for my puny low tech brain: Let's see, Condi sez TENET signed-off on the SIXTEEN WORDS and Shrub appreciates TENET taking him off the hook. But other stories say TENET warned the Shrubbites last October. So, why would he sign off on something he had warned against previously? And we now come to, WHO OVERRULED him?

Haha, Condi said neither she nor CHEENEE had even HEARD of Ambassador WILSON, didn't know he had been sent to Niger to investigate. Who sent him?----CIA?

So, if TENET is made to resign himself, Shrub gets to "look to the future, no fingerpointing" again, while looking DECISIVE in "fixing" a problem.

Since I don't get it, will just haha.

Lol, that is really funny! :-)

He got the dreaded 'vote of confidence' on Friday. They wanted to see how the press and himself would react. He will be asked to resign or fired this week. The NFL owners do this all the time with head coaches.

Good call Kentuck.

On edit: to make better sense, (I need alot of help with that).

Specifically to make his release of 9-11 info

"suspect"
:nuke:

it buries the story

90% of the time, resignations happen on Fridays so that they end up in the Saturday paper--the story is dead by Monday evening news. But I agree that Tenet will go down as the first of many sacrificial lambs.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/938245.asp?0cv=CB10

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Either way, NEWSWEEK has learned, Tenet may not be in the job much longer. Sources close to Tenet say he is pondering his exit strategy. He had already been thinking about calling it quits, they maintain. At six years, he has served longer than all but two of the agency’s past directors. But the timing is tricky: go now, and it looks like he was forced out. Wait too long, and he risks becoming an issue in the 2004 campaign. Bush voiced confidence in Tenet on Saturday, but, as one official says, “he’s not going to stay forever.” The knives are out: Pat Roberts, the Senate Intelligence chairman, scolded Tenet for his “extremely sloppy handling” of Iraqi intelligence and denounced agency leaks “to discredit the president.”
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I can't imagine any of them accepting the "he did it" solution from Bush. None of the faux repub "values" will allow this buck to be passed. Before a resignation, I'd look for obfuscation and diversionary tactics.

If leaks keep flowing and the press keeps printing what many have known for so long, this admin is going down.

would likely preclude the publication of anything of substance after the Feds redact anything they damn well please. There certainly wouldn't be any continuity.
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uncomfortable for Bush Inc. They do not forgive and forget.

Yup, it would be a damn good move. All they want is something they can say that silences the questions without answering them. This would do it. "We sacrificed this guy. He was great, but he fucked up and had to go. Yet you just keep hectoring and bugging us. You terrible terrible people. Haven't you done enough damage already?"

Yup, I think it would do it--plug the dam. The leakers would continue to leak but this could well deprive them of a demand for their product.

Wonder if there's any remnant of integrity in Tenet? That non-mea-culpa-mea-culpa of his made me think maybe there was. All it does is point straight back to Condi and Company with the question of why they were pressuring him to okay putting the story IN the speech. If they played it this way, the options for our side would narrow considerably.

But precisely because of how that Tenet statement was worded, I'm not entirely convinced he would go out like that. Here's a question: If this was what they were going to do, why didn't Shrump just ask for his resignation on Friday?

read this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=37559&mesg_id=37559&page=#37981

snip from an article posted in post 11 or 12:
Cheney got into the operational side of intelligence as well. Reports in late 2001 that Iraq had tried to acquire uranium from Niger stirred such intense interest that his office let it be known he wanted them checked out. So, with the CIA as facilitator, a retired U.S. ambassador was dispatched to Niger in February 2002 to investigate. He found nothing to substantiate the report and lots to call it into question. There the matter rested – until last summer, after the Bush administration made the decision for war in Iraq.

So a resignation would not make sense.

Seriously, no matter when Tenet goes it'll be ugly for *. So they have to time it as well as they can. I say in the dead of August when nobody is in DC and Shrub is hiding down in Texas.

I think this is far from over.

They would love to replace him him with someone of their own, someone who's is even more morally bankrupt and decrepit. However, I can't say when. Maybe tomorrow...Tenet resigning however will make sure this story stays alive and has even more appeal...

Bye George. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Does not look good for Mr Tenet, but the CIA might not take it lying down. You never know. This might finally be the "it" that awaken the sheeple.

Go on, rat the Bushies out already!

didnt really focus on Tenet or even ask many questions
about him re the SOTU/Niger lies. I think the "Tenet did
it" strategy aint working nowhere near like they hoped. It's
almost as if now even if they do fire him, it wont be
putting much behind them in this issue, because Tenet isnt
the one with all the baggage--Rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney etc. are.
His mea culpa was so full or nea not culpas that it didnt
really snap like they hoped. Tenet forgot to pick up his
suitcases as he inched toward the door, so Rice/Rummy picked
them up to help him leave & they were carrying them when the
lights went on. Going somewhere?

So firing Tenet will be like ho-hum you still havent answered
the questions, you still havent offered even a COHERENT
narrative of the hows, whos, whens & whys of the Niger issue.
Was the 16words wrong or not? Was it wrong only because it
was the SOTU? Was it inaccurate, wrong, incorrect, or simply
inappropriate for the speech? Do you believe the Niger story
is true nonetheless? Because of Brit intel? Have you seen
the Brit Intel? If not, why in God's name not? That's the
biggest BS of all, that Rice et all still seem to be saying
they havent seen the separate Brit Intel on Niger and/or
other African nations re uranium to Iraq. So, firing Tenet,
or getting him to quit, will not take much from the issue.
The question will remain--another brick in the collapsing
wall of * invincibility.