Re: Did Tenet jump or was he pushed? If he was pushed, who pushed him?
This was my reply which I gave Phil a little earlier. I think the neocons killed him.
No, no!! Powell pushed him... that is, Powell snookered Tenet into resigning by threatening to offer his own (Powell's) resignation --hence Tenet's "Parthian arrow" loosed at Colin Powell:
June 14, 2004
THE WORLD
Powell Says Politics Were Not Behind Flawed Terror Report
By Josh Meyer, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin L. Powell on Sunday blamed mistakes in data collection, not political considerations, for a "very embarrassing" State Department report that said terrorist attacks worldwide had decreased in 2003 when, in fact, they had risen significantly.
On Sunday TV talk shows, Powell acknowledged that the State Department's annual "Patterns of Global Terrorism" report, issued with great fanfare April 29, was badly flawed.
He said he was convening an interagency meeting today to determine why the 199-page report contained so many mistakes and omissions, including several terrorist attacks on Nov. 11 that killed 62 people in Turkey.
"Very embarrassing. I'm not a happy camper on this," Powell said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "We were wrong.... We're going to get to the bottom of it tomorrow" and reissue the report as soon as possible.
"It's not a political judgment that said, 'Let's see if we can cook the books.' We can't get away with that now," Powell said on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos. "Nobody was out to cook the books. Errors crept in."
The Times reported Wednesday that State Department officials were scrambling to revise and reissue the report after questions were raised about errors that were apparent from the department's own data.
The turnabout represented the first time the State Department has had to significantly rewrite the report since it was first ordered up by Congress two decades ago as the government's authoritative reference tool on worldwide terrorist activity, trends and groups.
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