{"id":2562,"date":"2004-06-03T16:54:20","date_gmt":"2004-06-04T06:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/03\/one-down\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T13:43:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T21:43:34","slug":"one-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/03\/one-down\/","title":{"rendered":"One down&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10874,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2004\\\/ALLPOLITICS\\\/06\\\/03\\\/tenet.resigns\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20220524040711\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2004\\\/ALLPOLITICS\\\/06\\\/03\\\/tenet.resigns\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 09:38:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 09:38:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10875,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.time.com\\\/time\\\/nation\\\/article\\\/0,8599,645382,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20130817060748\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.time.com\\\/time\\\/nation\\\/article\\\/0,8599,645382,00.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 09:38:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 09:38:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Wow &#8212; effective July 11th, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/06\/03\/tenet.resigns\/index.html\" title=\"Resigning with head 'very, very high'\">George Tenet has resigned as head of the CIA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  After being dogged by heavy criticism over questionable intelligence on Iraq and terrorism since the September 11, 2001 attacks, George Tenet resigned Thursday as the director of the CIA.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;I tell you about my plans to depart with sadness, but with head held very, very high,&#8221; Tenet told CIA employees at the agency&#8217;s Langley, Virginia, headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;And while Washington and the media will put many different faces on the decision, it was a personal decision, and had only one basis &#8212; in fact, the well-being of my wonderful family &#8212; nothing more and nothing less.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One down, many to go.<\/p>\n<p>On a not entirely unrelated note, though, I had one thought when I saw Tenet&#8217;s picture in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,645382,00.html\" title=\"George Tenet Steps Down\">this Time article<\/a>: George Tenet and Bill Murray&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>![George Tenet \/ Bill Murray]<\/p>\n<p>[George Tenet \/ Bill Murray]: https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/graphics\/tenet_murray.jpg {width=&#8221;286&#8243; height=&#8221;200&#8243;}<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;separated at birth?<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;How Beautiful You Are&#8221; by Cure, The from the album <em>Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me<\/em> (1987, 5:14).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a not entirely unrelated note, though, I had one thought when I saw Tenet&#8217;s picture in this Time article: George Tenet and Bill Murray&hellip;separated at birth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}