DEMOCRATS WILL DEMAND A "BENIGN" REPLACEMENT FOR TENET

Tenet---his fault or ours? The "reports" from the Gorelik committee are going to blame the CIA. In fact the fault is Congress's. It was they who castrated the agency back in 1976 and continued when Bush I cut the funding for CIA drastically, through Clinton. We elect the Congress. Now we will have the patriots like Pelosi, Clinton, Kerry, etc. "reforming" the CIA. There is no way these super-Left politicians will allow anyone strong to head the agency. The person will have to support abortion, parental leave, diversity, and all the rest; precisely what got us here. Bush will have to prove that he interviewed Blacks, Hispanics and women to head the agency before the new head can be approved. If you think this is fantasy, check this link courtesy of Terpsboy. On the plus side of the CIA etc., is that there has not been another terrorist attack since 9/11 and that has to count for something; just check out this, the latest terror attack in a Moscow shopping mall so the CIA has done some things right. The CIA didn't trust Chalabi from day one and it may turn out that overriding that concern was a huge mistake. Some of the "spin" going on now is that the bureaucracy is full of Democrats who wanted to stab Bush in the back. Well, Bush could have fired every Democrat in the place when elected and he chose to keep both Tenet and that moron Minetta. I have been super-critical of Bush's inability to fire people and Tenet clearly should have been fired. But we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that the ENTIRE agency let us down, as did the FBI (Robert Hanssen), but they played within the rules set by Congress. NRO has a good piece today, and has a clear focus on the "softness" of the intel as well as the fact that leaks from both agencies who only police themselves have cost us thousands of lives.

It is a mess, but one created in large part by Congress.