Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM), will take over from David Kay, who is stepping down as Tenet's special adviser on the search for banned weapons in Iraq.
But as George Tenet, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has argued, an intelligence director with only general supervisory powers could weaken co-ordination not strengthen it.
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For others, the departure is seen as a transparent - if welcome - effort to designate Tenet as the chosen scapegoat for recent intelligence failures.
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The central tenet as we develop this plan is how we fulfill our mission as an encyclopedic institution.
Today, American diplomats, as part of their official mandate and as an explicit tenet of U.S. values, must speak up for the rights of individuals experiencing persecution on the basis of their sexual orientation, as when a couple were sentenced in Cameroon for "looking" gay.
One reason why Tenet is now being considered as a merger candidate for Columbia is because Tenet now has a cleaner image.
The ideology of individual sacrifice for the greater social good is a political perversion of this religious tenet, as ancient as the religions themselves.
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On the evening of March 27, Tenet and as many of the task-force members as could fit into the ground-floor conference room crowded around speakerphones that were patched into a team of CIA, FBI and Pakistani intelligence agents raiding the villa.
The truth of the matter is, however, that both he and his House counterpart Rep. Porter Goss, Republican of Florida and a former secret agent were as reluctant as CIA Director George Tenet, and the Bush Administration writ large, to see the intelligence community subjected to close scrutiny.
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Britt Snider was, until last year, the Inspector General of the Tenet CIA. From 1997-98 he served as Special Counsel and advisor to Mr. Tenet.
Goss, the committee's chairman, has been frequently mentioned as a possible replacement for Tenet, who is resigning from his CIA post in July.
L. Mencken is based on the tenet that politics as practiced by boobus Americanus should be viewed as an act of nature, to be dealt with as one would a stormy day.
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Durbin wrote CIA Director George Tenet Tuesday, as well as Senate Intelligence Chairman Bob Graham, D-Florida, and ranking Republican Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, asking that a the CIA put together a so-called "National Intelligence Estimate, " an authoritative written judgment on national security regarding Iraq.
Fairness, evidently, was not Mr. Tenet's motivating impulse as an author.
As HCA struggles with such issues, Tenet Healthcare (nyse: THC - news - people ), its biggest rival, saw one of its California hospitals raided by the FBI in October.
Policymakers, whether the president or members of Congress, do not always qualify their public discussions as precisely as intelligence officers do, a point Director Tenet made in his testimony on Tuesday.
Former CIA chief George Tenet said the Bush administration used him as a scapegoat over intelligence issues with the war in Iraq, and debate among top officials was absent when decisions were made to invade the country.
Choice preferably an exhaustive menu of it pretty much defines our status as consumers, and has long been an unquestioned tenet of the capitalist feast, but in fact carte blanche is no way to run a cultural life (or any kind of life, for that matter), and one thing that has nourished the theatrical experience, from the Athens of Aeschylus to the multiplex, is the element of compulsion.
Mr. Tenet makes a peculiar claim of detachment, as if he had not been a top official in the Bush administration.
Since such reports were not universally accepted as authoritative by every component of our intelligence community, however, Tenet apologized for allowing reference to them to appear in the Presidents State of the Union address.
Helping the company land federal business are two big names it has signed up as board members: former FBI director Louis Freeh and former CIA chief George Tenet.
The company has nonmedical problems, as well: In July a federal grand jury issued an indictment accusing a Tenet hospital of illegal kickbacks made to doctors through relocation agreements.
Another tenet of the new relationship is both sides should focus on common areas such as trade and global flashpoints such as North Korea -- but play down the differences issues including human rights.
President Bill Clinton is standing fully behind his nominee to head the CIA, George Tenet, following some questions involving the financial disclosure statements Tenet filed with the National Security Council (NSC) in 1993 when he served as the intelligence expert in the White House.
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