From: Steve Ewing 

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:48:10 -0500, Frank Haber  wrote:

> And so the pendulum swings.

Richard Perle advocates firing Tenet for getting his intel wrong.  Hmm, hmm, hmm.

Talking Points Memo:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_02_15.html#002572

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Our friend Mr. Perle is giving new meaning to the phrase 'comedy of
errors'. Yesterday [17 FEB] in Washington he called for the resignation of
CIA chief George Tenet and the head the of DIA. "Heads should
roll," he said, "not in a punitive or vindictive way. But when
you discover you have an organization that doesn't get it right time after
time, you change the organization, including the people.... I would start
with the head." [...]
Now, this is truly one of those 'where do you start' points of
ridiculousness. It's rather like Andy Fastow and Ken Lay calling for heads
to roll at the SEC because the government regulators didn't get the whole
securities oversight thing quite right...

It is awfully hard to find a single data point on which the CIA or the DIA
were 'wrong' in which Perle & Co. were not wrong-squared or even
wrong-cubed, and in which he and his crew were not playing the same old
bureaucratic and media games to mau-mau those agencies into being even more
'wrong' than they were. (See this particularly humorous example.)
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