The Washington Post reports that President Bush announced that CIA Director George J. Tenet has submitted his resignation:
CIA officials said the resignation was for personal reasons, denying that Tenet quit, or was pressured to leave, because of criticism of U.S. intelligence over the failed search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or missed clues to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist plot.
"He told me he was resigning for personal reasons," Bush said. "I told him I'm sorry he's leaving. He's done a superb job on behalf of the American people."
Bush said he had accepted Tenet's letter of resignation, which Tenet submitted at a White House meeting Wednesday night.
Speaking to reporters briefly before leaving on a trip to Europe, Bush said Tenet would serve as CIA director until mid-July, then give way to the current CIA deputy director, John E. McLaughlin, who will take over as acting director. Bush did not indicate who would be Tenet's permanent successor.
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Tenet was appointed by President Bill Clinton and has served as CIA director since July 1997.
This is good news. I only wish President Bush announced that he had asked for Tenet's resignation.
UPDATE: Tenet's resignation may have been prompted by the findings of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on pre-war intelligence failures.ABCNews reports the findings in the not yet released report on pre-war intelligence failures are "devastating" for Tenet. According to ABC:
Democratic sources confirm Tenet was losing support among Democrats because of the conclusions reached by this report. One Republican source predicted Wednesday Tenet might resign before it is released. The report is currently being declassified by the CIA and is expected to be made public on June 17.
UPDATE II: A former CIA Director thinks President Bush asked tenet to resign. According to the New York Times:
Turner's analysis makes sense to me. Again, I just wish President Bush announced that he fired Tenet.The official announcement was unconvincing to a former C.I.A. chief, Stansfield Turner, who held the post under President Jimmy Carter.
Mr. Turner said the resignation is "too significant a move at too important a time" to be inspired by nothing more than personal considerations.
"I think he's being pushed out," Mr. Turner said in an interview on C.N.N. "The president feels he has to have someone to blame."
Mr. Turner went on, "I don't think he would pull the plug on President Bush in the midst of an election cycle without being asked by President Bush to do that."
UPDATE III: The June 4th edition of the Christian Science Monitor suggests many factors contributed to Tenet's resignation:
* The upcoming 9/11 commission report is almost certain to hit the CIA for failures prior to the Sept. 11;
* Recent controversies concerning various intelligence leaks;
* The mistaken US predictions about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction;
* The inclusion of the assertion in a State of the Union address that Iraq was seeking uranium in Niger; and
* Tenet has also been tarred by the Wilson affair.
The Monitor wonders if the Chalabi investigation was the last straw:
The Monitor's list sums up why everyone seems pleased Tenet is leaving.More recently, federal investigators have begun looking into which US government official might have leaked the fact that the US had broken ian codes to Ahmed Chalabi, the former Iraqi exile who has long been a favorite of some in the Pentagon.
"Maybe [the Chalabi investigation] was the one that broke the camel's back" and convinced Tenet to leave.
CIA Tenet and J.D.Davidson connected Bonner meet
at New Orleans conference in 2004.CIA uses James Dale Davidson's Agora in illegal pump and dump schemes to benefit himself and CIA insiders in various questionable penny stocks focused on 'defense' 'homeland security' and potential internet spying for personal gain - all under guise of protecting us. Americans are defrauded again !!!
And yes I do take it personally because James Dale Davidson ran a pump and dump scheme using Endovasc of Montgomery,Texas and lied about patents while even Stanford researchers benefitted from the pump and dump of Endovasc share and the company fraudulently claimed to be a victim of 'naked shorting' from Charles Schwab my broker who hosted the account Endovasc and Davidson's shares were dumped from - possibly LOM of Bermuda'a Schwab account!!!
from offshorebusiness . com message board :
Hunter Check This Out
By Ol' Hap on 9/23/2004 5:36:07 PM
E-mail: olhap@roastymail . com
There's a conference coming up in New Orleans in November. Featured speakers include Bill Bonner of Agora, Alexander Green of The Oxford Club, Michael Checkan (wrote for The Q Newsletter), Porter Stansberry, Dr. Steve Sjuggeruud of True Wealth, and a whole load of other..um..familiar names. And then...here's the topper, guess who else?
George Tenet. The recently resigned director of the CIA.
Here's the link:
http:// www . neworleansconference . com/event/faculty_2004 . htm
Ionatron Inc.,Tenet,CIA,,Bonner,Agora ,and Government Securities Terrorism
4/25/2005 4:50:42 PM
E-mail: [email protected]
Ionatron Inc.,Tenet,CIA,,Bonner,Agora ,and Government Sponsered Securities Terrorism
After coming across this latest article from Christopher Byron of the 'New York Post'on penny stock pump and dump fraud and the CIA I remembered Ol'Hap's post(from offshorebusiness.com message board)on the New Orleans conference between George Tenet, and'Bill Bonner of Agora, Alexander Green of The Oxford Club, Michael Checkan (wrote for The Q Newsletter), Porter Stansberry, Dr. Steve Sjuggeruud of True Wealth, and a whole load of other..um..familiar names.'
Note James Dale Davidson founder of the National Association Against Naked Short Selling to mask his penny stock pump and dump frauds,and I suspect money laundering and tax evasion,is also the founder of Agora.
I found Ol'Hap's message board post again under search 'tenet' and reposted it below this latest article.It is indeed sad to accept the reality that not only are Americans ripped off in these sleezy pumps and dumps run by our 'intelligence agents' for their personal gain,but the frauds are subsidized by taxpayers,some of whom are ripped off in the very same pump and dump frauds their taxes pay for.And an insider group of these corrupt 'intelligence' officials actually personally benefit from what is clearly fraud perpetrated against their fellow Americans.
But of course we are at war against 'terrorism' and so our own'intelligence'elite is allowed free reign to terrorize us.This explains much about 'dirtydirtydeeds'O'Brien of the Yahoo NFI and Overststock . com message boards and author of the letter to Bush in the Washington Post,(who I have every reason to believe is James Dale Davidson), feeling so free to lie to defraud, threaten,and terrorize on the internet with impunity.
I am sorry to say my own governement is the 'share-money laundering terrorist' I was warning about and far from appealing for their help through the SEC for the fraud and money laundering pump and dump I have suffered at the hands of Charles Schwab,Endovasc,Stanford University,James Dale Davidson,Belladorgroup boiler room of Kuala Lumpur and on and on, I may as well try and make contact with Saddam Hussein and appeal to him.
personal email:
Tony,
Just answered my own question.
Ionatron WAS touted by Agora's Investment U on the following web page.
There's a lot of other text. To cut through the tout crap, do a word search
on Ionatron.
I'll post this up on KYC/OBNR and Diligizer.
http://www.investmentu.com/resources/pennystockfortunes.html
-Hap
PENNY STOCK SPIES
By CHRISTOPHER BYRON
http://www.nypost.com/business/45259.htm
April 25, 2005 -- SHARES in a high-flying penny stock called Ionatron Inc. had been climbing for months on a steady flow of press releases about the company's opportunities at the sword's point of high technology in the post-9/11 world of homeland defense.
Then suddenly, on March 18, with Ionatron's shares having climbed to a high of $10.41, the company's stock was hit with an avalanche of insider selling, as more than 50 Wall Streeters privy to Ionatron's innermost secrets bailed out of nearly every share of stock they held, knocking more than 30 percent off the price in the days that followed.
Another cautionary tale from the pump-and-dump annals of the penny stock market? In fact, it's a lot more than that, for behind last month's bailout at Arizona-based Ionatron Inc. lies an astonishing tale of taxpayer-financed intrigue on capitalism's street of dreams.
In reality, nearly every one of the more than four dozen insiders who dumped their Ionatron shares on March 18 have now been identified by The Post as employees of a secretive, Arlington, Va., investment group that is owned, operated and financed out of the black box budget of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
The group, which calls itself a "venture capital fund," and goes by the name of In-Q-Tel Inc., was set up in 1999 by the C.I.A's then-director, George Tenet. His idea: that by investing in promising young companies in digital technology, the fund would be able to keep the agency abreast of developments in this fast-changing world while they were still on the drawing boards.
Posted by: TONY RYALS | Wednesday, May 11, 2005 at 06:14 PM
The CIA had an opening for an assassin. After all of the background checks, interviews, and testing were done there were three finalists - two men and one woman. For the final test, the CIA agents took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun.
"We must know that you will follow your instructions, no matter what the circumstances. Inside this room you will find your wife sitting in a chair. You have to kill her." The first man said. "You cant be serious. I could never shoot my wife!"The agent replies, "Then you?re not the right man for this job."
The second man was given the same instructions. He took the gun and went into the room. All was quiet for about five minutes. Then the agent came out with tears in his eyes. "I tried, but I cant kill my wife." The agent replies, "You dont have what it takes. Take your wife and go home."
Finally, it was the womans turn. Only she was told to kill her husband. She took the gun and went into the room. Shots were heard, one shot after another. They heard screaming, crashing, banging on the walls. After a few minutes, all was quiet. The door opened slowly and there stood the woman. She wiped the sweat from her brow and said, "You guys didnt tell me the gun was loaded with blanks. So I had to beat him to death with the chair."
Posted by: Jokes | Friday, October 08, 2004 at 07:15 PM