Tenet Resigned? Not Likely

The official line is that Tenet resigned, but I think we will hear a lot of this over the next few days:

Former CIA Director Stansfield Turner said the timing of Tenet's resignation -- just five months before the presidential election -- cast doubt on the explanation that it was a personal decision.

"I think he's being pushed out or made a scapegoat," said Turner, who led the CIA during the Carter administration. "That is, that the president feels he's got to have somebody to blame, and he's doing it indirectly by asking Tenet to leave. ... I don't think he would pull the plug on President Bush in the middle of an election cycle without having been asked by the president to do that."

That's absolutely right. If Tenet had any redeeming quality for this administration, it was his loyalty. Now, all of a sudden, he decides he will split and run? No way.

Of course, now that he is no longer a member of the administration, I think it high time he wrote a book. A nice long book, with lots of details. I'll even promise to buy it when it comes out in mid-October. What do you say, George?