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| quote: | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- CIA Director George Tenet has resigned, citing personal reasons, President Bush said Thursday.
In a statement made at the White House, Bush said that Tenet informed him of his decision Wednesday night.
Bush said Tenet had done "a superb job for the American people."
"He has been a strong and able leader at the agency," Bush said.
"He has been a strong leader in the war on terror and I will miss him."
Tenet will leave the position in mid-July Bush said.
Tenet was sworn in as the Director of Central Intelligence on July 11, 1997. |
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS...igns/index.html
I think it's a little unfair that Tenet's taking the fall for Bush when his organisation did warn him about the questionable quality of some of the intelligence used in the SOTU and other addresses, but you would hardly say that the CIA's performance over the past 3-4 years has been "glowing". Wonder who they're going to replace him with? Is it a government appointed post?
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