Reply #20: MSNBC/Newsweek story says Tenet may be on the way out [View All]

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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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