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CIA
DIRECTOR DID NOT RESIGN FOR “PERSONAL REASONS”
NEW YORK(ANSA) - George
Tenet is at the point of witnessing the assessment
of his prolonged role at the head of the CIA - the
U.S. intelligence agency - based on reports that
Congress sources have already defined as
“devastating” in terms of errors attributed to him
over crucial issues.
The first report, some 400
pages long and prepared by the Senate Intelligence
Committee, is now ready but has not yet been
published and describes the CIA’s errors over the
alleged weapons of mass destruction possessed by
Saddam Hussein that were never found.
The second, expected to be
ready by July 26, is a summary by the investigations
commission into the events of September 11, 2001 and
will surely displease the CIA as well.
The third report is expected
to be completed this summer and was written by
Charles Duelfer, the individual entrusted with the
task of searching for weapons of mass destruction in
Iraq, the principal motive used by the White House
to go to war.
George W. Bush’s government
deployed all the media weapons at its disposal to
support Tenet’s announcement that his resignation is
exclusively motivated by “personal reasons”.
But the real reason for his
removal appears to be increasingly linked to the
double failure represented by Al-Qaeda and Iraq and
that seems destined to emerge more prominently than
the other reports during the coming months.
Without doubt, the
repercussions will be felt within the electoral
campaign for the presidency, in which the role of
intelligence is assuming a central role.
The internal earthquake
within the CIA has not ended with Tenet’s
resignation, which comes into effect on July 11.
Another exponent of the agency’s leadership has also
announced his resignation: James Pavitt, head of the
underground service - that is to say the secret
espionage network directed by the CIA throughout the
world.
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