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...haven't always been on the White House's page--the State and Justice departments--by naming longtime personal aides to run them for the next four years (see following story). The CIA overhaul had actually begun a few months earlier, when Bush named Goss, 65, to succeed George Tenet, who was adored by agency personnel but resigned after seven difficult years. Tenet spent a lot of time in his final years defending the agency against criticism for a string of intelligence failures--and through a combination of charm and bluster keeping a lid on the simmering tensions between...
...visions of America. By choosing the President’s vision, the American people may have committed this country to four more years of aggression, arrogance and fiscal irresponsibility. But at least the people have spoken. Democracies may not always make the right decisions, yet it is a central tenet of our form of government that we be allowed to make mistakes. If Bush does indeed ascend to the presidency for the next four years, we hope his tenure in office will prove that the American people have spoken wisely...
...military supremacy to deter enemies. "Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation," he said in 1999. "They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment." Bush's faith in military force became the guiding tenet of his presidency after 9/11. "He determined on that day that you could not fight this war just on defense," Rice says. "It's an unfair fight when they have to be right once and you have to be right 100% of the time." Despite the strain on U.S. forces and the rising death toll...
...GEORGE TENET, former director of the CIA, opposing the 9/11 commission's proposal to create an overall director of intelligence who is removed from the day-to-day gathering of information...
...which said that Saddam probably possessed weapons of mass destruction. That report was produced after Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld pressured the CIA to come up with stronger evidence for invading Iraq. The current assessment is more credible. It comes from a cautious, chastened CIA. It was probably George Tenet's last act as CIA director. And it was written well before the current spatter of dreadful developments, including the U.S. military's acknowledgement that there are areas of Iraq, "no go" zones controlled by the insurgents, where we have decided not to fight. My second thought was pretty wicked...