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To: Selectric II who wrote (8588)	6/4/2004 1:12:17 AM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

President Bush should never have kept a Clinton appointee on...they all are the same..they'd sell their country down the drain in a second. Exit Tenet, Goodbye to A Politician Charles R. Smith Thursday, June 3, 2004 The resignation of George Tenet as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency is officially a personal act done by the DCIA to return to his family life. Privately, the real reasons behind Tenet's resignation may be laid at the feet of Iraqi political leader Ahmed Chalabi. The recent events in Iraq surrounding Chalabi showed major flaws inside the highest levels of the CIA. Chalabi stands accused of leaking top-secret information to Iranian intelligence. According to unnamed "intelligence" sources cited by the New York Times, Chalabi leaked that the U.S. had broken Iranian secret codes to agents of Tehran. In response to this reported leak, an Iranian source inside Iraq immediately communicated with Tehran, using the broken code, telling of the meeting with Chalabi. All this smacks of a clumsy set up. The Setup No professional intelligence service would continue to use a broken code system for secure communications. Yet, according to the charges by un-named "intelligence" sources inside Washington, that is exactly what Tehran did. The first act of a professional intelligence service upon learning their code had been broken would be to change the code system. The second act would be to use the broken code to feed false or misleading information back to the U.S. The Iranians could have used the broken code to feed U.S. intelligence a vast array of false information, leading America off track and into ambushes. Instead, the Iranians sent messages saying the code was broken and that Chalabi was the source of their discovery. The CIA and State Department opposed Chalabi from the beginning. The feud between the CIA and the Defense Department centered over the Pentagon's support of Chalabi. Yet, Langley was not the only opponent of the Iraqi leader. The Iranians hated Chalabi and also wanted to discredit him. The fact is the Iranian MOIS intelligence service has spent some $70 million in Iraq in an attempt to set up a government favorable to Tehran. Chalabi stood in their way, opposing a secular government and leaking information to the U.S. about Shiite clerics forming militias. The Mole Hunt When it comes to intelligence in Iraq the CIA has been on the losing side for quite some time. The CIA has been outmaneuvered by the Iranian intelligence service in Iraq. The Iranians have penetrated all levels of the U.S. led coalition and virtually all parties inside Iraq, including Chalabi's group known as INC. The failure of U.S. intelligence in Iraq was compounded by leaks from the un-named "intelligence" sources to the press to discredit Chalabi. Yet, the same leaks confirmed that Tehran's communications were being monitored. The source of those leaks point back to George Tenet and the CIA. The Defense Department continues to defend Chalabi while un-named "intelligence" sources pin the Iraqi leader as the person who gave the Iranians our valued secrets. The turf battle inside Washington erupted into a public blame-game, pointing at Chalabi and the Pentagon. There is a growing indication that Iran has penetrated the highest levels inside Washington. The FBI has sent its top investigators to Washington and a mole hunt is underway, starting inside the Pentagon. The FBI is not ruling out anyone so expect the hunt to extend into the CIA and State Department as well. The food fight left the CIA director out in the open and vulnerable. Tenet was unable to control his troops from leaking information, unable to stop the Iranian penetrations, and unable to use the key code-breaking power to American's advantage. Tenet Failures While there is little question that George Tenet has served the CIA during its most trying period since the end of the Cold War, there is also no question that Tenet failed the U.S. and two Presidents by providing bad intelligence. Tenet's CIA missed the obvious connection between Pakistan and nuclear weapons proliferation. The proliferation spread across the Middle East and included Iraqi nuclear scientists working inside Libya using Chinese, North Korean and Pakistani technology. We now know of the extent of this covert A-bomb program from Libyan sources that have come clean with the U.N., U.S. and U.K. Tenet's CIA missed the Pakistani and Indian nuclear tests. The shock and surprise at the sudden tests nearly led to a nuclear war between the South Asian powers. The U.S. was caught by surprise and left with little or no options to stop such a war. Tenet's CIA missed the North Korean nuclear bomb program, standing behind the political fiction erected by the Clinton administration and former President Jimmy Carter that Pyongyang was not developing A-bombs. Tenet's CIA told the White House, Congress and the American people in 1998 that North Korea would not be able to build a long range missile capable of striking the U.S. for at least 10 years. In August 1998, North Korea fired the Tae Po Dong missile over Japan and landed a simulated nuclear warhead off the U.S. coast. Tenet's CIA missed the rise of Islamic terrorism. The DCIA has stated several times that the U.S. could not penetrate the inside of al Qaeda because of its family-like organization. However, the DCIA could never explain why a 16 year old from California could get inside Al Qaeda when the CIA could not. On September 11, 2001, George Tenet found out about the attack on America from CNN. Tenet was having breakfast at a local D.C. restaurant when one of the patrons just happened to turn on the TV. This happened despite the fact that al Qaeda suicide bombers had struck 24 hours before, killing the leader of the Afghan northern alliance in a pre-attack warning that should have sent alarm bells off inside CIA Headquarters. Yet, on that fateful day Tenet had just finished putting the CIA through a high priority celebration. The number one priority for Tenet just two days prior to 9/11 was to celebrate CIA "diversity" day, an event intended to bring more gay pride into the super-secret agency. Resignation On September 12, 2001, I wrote, "Why are the Directors of the CIA and NSA still in place? Why has CIA head George Tenet not tendered his resignation like Admiral Kimmel after Pearl Harbor?" This reporter has written many stories on Tenet, his years inside the Clinton White House and his efforts to provide favors to U.S. companies seeking sensitive exports. George Tenet was never an intelligence official. He never ran an intelligence operation nor knew how. The enemy that George Tenet fought was inside Capitol Hill and the White House, not in Iraq and Afghanistan. All that is now history. Finally, we can rebuild an agency dedicated to the national security of the United States.