From: Gene McAloon 

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 13:58:37 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=World&cat=Espionage_and_Intel
ligence
>
>did I call it or what?
>
>Geo. (this is over the prisoner abuse, may not look that way yet but it
>will)
>

No, you didn't call it. There is considerable speculation about why he was
"invited" to leave, but it most certainly was not about the
prison abuses. The CIA is only peripherally involved in that scandal. It is
the army and the DoD that will take the heat for that.

My guess is that the White House had to produce a scapegoat for the WMD
blunders. The primary culprits are Rumsfeld and Cheney, but Bush is not
about to
do anything about either. On the other hand, they had even Powel demanding
that Tenet justify the CIA intelligence information Powel used in his UN
address. When you think about the people involved and who they are, it is
obvious that Tenet was the most expendable.

It seems rather far out, but it may even be the public rift between Tenet
and Chalabi that is responsible. That kind of thing, if it were to
continue, inevitably would involve Rumsfeld and Cheney given how close they
were to Chalabi. What better way to silence that squabble than to get rid
of Tenet. There is at least something in that idea, but admittedly not much
in my view.

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