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I always resign for personal reasons. That reason is usually an increase in personal income. That is normally the reason for politicians too. He'll make a ton of money doing security for a big company and giving speeches.

Well, he's already served two presidents in the job for something like six or seven years. Which is highly unusual, so I'd tend to believe that he is ready to move on to something new.

I forget just who it was, but I recall hearing about some despot or another stepping down just before a coup. Some wit describe him as "wanting to spend time with his family, and avoid spending time with his ancestors".

--Dave

Am I perhaps a conspiracy nut? I believe that George Tenet was forced to resign because of the recent Ahmed Chalabi flap. The CIA liberals are out of control. Tent was hesitant to confront these rogues.

Tenet’s resignation may have been prompted by the findings of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on pre-war intelligence failures. ABCNews reports the findings in the not yet released report on pre-war intelligence failures are “devastating” for Tenet.

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Tenet, hmmm. Isn't he the guy who should have resigned years ago?

The way I hear it, the CIA hasn't liked Chalabi since the mid-90s. He was more the Pentagon's guy.

As for "personal reasons", I did know someone who was forced out after a party change, and refused to give the "I want to spend more time with my family" line. So she was fired the old fashioned way. Basically, personal reasons are a way of saving face.

Is it possible to resign and have it not be for personal reasons? If most of the American public thought I was miserable at my job, I'd take it personally and resign too.

A couple of weeks ago it looked promising that Donald Rumsfeld would soon be "spending more time with his familiy", but he clings like a barnacle to the ship of state. Tenet, who went out of his way to take full blame for the "sixteen words" and took some rhetorical bullets for the OSP, is walking the plank.

How come the only people to run afoul of this administration are people who get in the way of the interests of the OSP and the Vice President's office?

Gee, has it ever occurred to anybody that maybe he does want to spend more time with his family?

We might consider the possibility if that wasn't the eternal public face of a high-profile firing. You have to wonder though, how many actually do resign legitimately for those reasons? And what do they think of everyone believing that they got fired?

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