• ABC: Tenet’s Resignation, ‘Strictly Personal,’ Says Brother
• Reuters: Bush Says He (sic) Sorry Tenet Left CIA
• Defenselink.mil: Rumsfeld Says Tenet’s Work Helped Save Lives on Battlefield
• The Australian, Australia: Bush ‘didn’t ask Tenet to resign’: “US President George W Bush did not ask CIA director George Tenet to resign and had no advance notice he would do so, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said …”
• Seattle Post Intelligencer: Bush: Tenet leaving shouldn’t hurt morale
• E-Commerce Times: No Shock at Tenet Departure: “… Tenet’s departure was the worst-kept Washington secret this side of John Kerry’s political vacillations — his fate sealed when Bob Woodward outed him as …
• New York Post: Tenet Exit Has Spooks Spooked: “The stage has been set by CIA Director George Tenet’s resignation for major reforms in the nation’s intelligence networks that …”
• International Herald Tribune, France: CIA after Tenet: Terror warnings are not enough: “Some critics of America’s intelligence services will mistakenly see George Tenet’s resignation as director of central intelligence as a reaction to …”
• East Valley Tribune, AZ: Scuttlebutt about Tenet: “The scuttlebutt in Washington is that George Tenet is resigning as director of the CIA because several harsh reports were about to descend on his head like …”
• Pacific News Service, CA: Tenet or Not, CIA Must Learn Mideast’s ‘Secret Language’: “The resignation of George Tenet as CIA director, following a string of disastrous failures at the agency, underscores the greater failure of the US …”
• Common Dreams: Bush’s Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides: “… The President’s abrupt dismissal of CIA Directory George Tenet Wednesday night is, aides say, an example of how he works.”
• Providence Journal, RI: RI delegation surprised by timing of Tenet resignation
• Peoria Journal Star, IL: LaHood shocked at Tenet’s timing
• Bloomington Pantagraph, IA: Durbin, LaHood say Tenet not the problem
• Pacifica Radio: Fall Guy for the Bush Regime? “Geoge Tenet resigned as director of the Central Intelligence Agency for “personal reasons,” but many analysts say that Tenet is a fall guy for an …”
• NewsMax, FL: Report May Have Hastened Tenet’s Resignation: “…Tenet’s resignation comes just as a critical, 400-page report from the Senate intelligence committee was readied for public …”
• GOPUSA: Pelosi: Tenet Only first of Many Who Should Go
• SunHerald.com, MS: Tenet out; CIA debate rages: “George Tenet’s resignation as CIA director does little to solve the many inherent problems plaguing US intelligence, say former spies, lawmakers …”
• Dallas Morning News: Did Tenet jump or was he pushed?
• NDTV.com, India: Chalabi slams Tenet: “Former Iraqi governing council member Ahmed Chalabi has launched a bitter attack on Tenet saying the former CIA chief is to blame for false information on …”
• CNN: Chalabi blames Tenet for feud with US
• NewsMax.com, FL: Hillary Clinton: ‘Pro-Chalabi Supporters’ Forced Tenet Out
• Miami Herald: Text of Tenet’s Letter of Resignation
• Duluth Weekly, GA: Collins Surprised at CIA Director George Tenet’s Resignation: “… Georgia Republican Congressman Mac Collins, a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence was surprised Thursday that Tenet decided to …”
• Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil, IA: Harkin: No sorrow for loss of Tenet: “Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, doesn’t feel sorry for George Tenet, who resigned Thursday as CIA director. … He (Tenet) misled the president and everybody,” Harkin said. …”
• The Spoof (satire): Tenet Starts Avalanche of Resignations: “Within hours of throwing in the towel, newly resigned CIA chief George Tenet has unwittingly started a domino effect in the Bush cabinet. …”
• Town Hall, DC: “Tenet stacked up an impressive number of failures during his tenure, but pinning America’s atrophied intelligence capabilities on him is a little like blaming …”
• Capitol Hill Blue, VA: With Tenet Out, FBI Chief Tries a Power Grab: “… Mueller on Thursday proposed the creation of an intelligence service within the FBI, a move that came on the heels of the ouster of CIA Director George Tenet. …”
• NewsMax.com, FL: Daschle Wants Real Reason for Tenet Resignation: “Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle told interviewers that he was taken by surprise when he heard of George Tenet’s resignation, but that he looks “forward to …”
• Providence Journal, RI: “… No great insight is needed to figure out why George J. Tenet resigned Thursday as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. His …”
• The Rolling Head, Chattanoogan, TN: “George Tenet got Washington-ed. George Tenet got Bush-whacked. George Tenet got fed to the angry volcano gods. … Tenet was a high paid bellboy. … ”
  

“Mike Epstein is not a terrorist, but if a proposed ban on photography on New York trains and buses goes into effect, he might very well find himself treated like one.

‘How can they ban photographing unusual sights aboard trains and in stations?’ wonders Epstein, who operates Satan’s Laundromat, a website dedicated to ‘urban decay, strange signage, and general weirdness.’ …

You bet. The MTA’s move to stop the shooting of unauthorized pictures or video has pissed-off everyone from photobloggers to subway advocates and free-speech activists. To show their opposition to the ban, a group of photographers plan to gather at the main information kiosk in Grand Central station this Sunday, June 6, at 1 p.m. They’ll fan out across several train lines, shooting photos throughout the system in a peaceful demonstration.” (Village Voice)

Only good Catholics are entitled to be self-centered (SF Chronicle)

A Guide To the Most Efficient Things in the World: “The information presented here will be of interest to those who wish to live more simply and self-sufficiently.

Incorporating the tools and techniques outlined here can dramatically decrease your dependence on petroleum, electricity, gas for heating and cooling, municipal water and sewage utilities. Once implemented these sources will be available to you perpetually.”

Capitol Hill Blue: Bush Knew About Leak of CIA Operative’s Name: “Witnesses told a federal grand jury President George W. Bush knew about, and took no action to stop, the release of a covert CIA operative’s name to a journalist in an attempt to discredit her husband, a critic of administration policy in Iraq.” (Capitol Hill Blue) It was this testimony that led the worried Bu**sh** to seek private counsel earlier this week, God love ‘im. (You can tell how much I am enjoying this; if the Democrats have it in them to act with alacrity, could this be the scandal that brings the dysadministration down?)

“Web logs, or blogs, which started out as a labor of love, are becoming a moneymaker for writers who are selling advertising on their sites.” (SF Chronicle) It probably goes without saying, but there will never be advertisements on Follow Me Here.

Or Mass Distraction?: “From the moment this office opened for business last December, I felt I could not write about what had been published in the paper before my arrival. Once I stepped into the past, I reasoned, I might never find my way back to the present.

Early this month, though, convinced that my territory includes what doesn’t appear in the paper as well as what does, I began to look into a question arising from the past that weighs heavily on the present: Why had The Times failed to revisit its own coverage of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? To anyone who read the paper between September 2002 and June 2003, the impression that Saddam Hussein possessed, or was acquiring, a frightening arsenal of W.M.D. seemed unmistakable. Except, of course, it appears to have been mistaken.” — Daniel Okrent, New York Times ombudsperson