checkmate on Tenet

Billmon raises the intriguing possibility of a lose-lose proposition for Bush in the wake of Dean's petition (go sign!) :

the White House is obviously angling for George Tenet's resignation -- something that the neocon firebrands have been demanding since Bush took office.

But now, if Tenet resigns, it will look like Dean has drawn blood -- and an implicit confession that there is something very serious and very wrong going on inside the Bush administration.
...
On the other hand, if the White House backs down, and keeps Tenet, Bush will look like he's either:

a.) Conceding his responsiblity for the Niger uranium fiasco.

or:

b.) Allowing a lying, incompetent CIA director (and even worse: a lying, incompetent Clinton-appointed CIA director) to remain in office because he doesn't want to take the political heat for firing him.


Even if these scenarios were unintended, they shouldn't be now. I think the Dean campaign has a nice blueprint for its rhetoric regardless of what Bush does. Either way, the heat stays on Bush - where it should be.

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