Tenet resigns and Bush's announcement of it has been described as "almost bizarre" (NY Times.... Is the press finally coming around to telling it like it is re Bush?). And of course, the reason given for Tenet resigning: to spend time with the family. The more likely reasons: 1) a soon-to-be-released congressional report harshly criticizing him and the CIA, 2) the administration needed a fall guy to take some of the heat off, and 3) Tenet heeded to Al Gore's resignation demand (we can dream).

Of course, Tenet's exit pales in comparison to those who truly deserve such a fate: Vice President Cheney, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.