(UPDATE: This seems silly a day after I posted it, but I'll leave it up anyway.)


Chalabi blames Tenet for feud with U.S.

--CNN headline, May 24, 2004

CIA chief Tenet resigns

--CNN headline, June 3, 2004

Coincidence?

Look, I don't know -- this isn't my area of expertise at all, and I'm struggling to understand what's going on. I know there are a lot of reasons Bush might want Tenet out -- the most plausible seems to be the need for a scapegoat (especially one who is, conveniently, a Clinton holdover) now that the 9/11 Commission report is imminent -- but I'm wondering if Tenet set something in motion vis-a-vis Chalabi that ticked off the true Bush insiders and was the last straw. Take this for what it is -- a hunch.