It's all very clear to me now

[mithriltabby]

The phrase “is leaving to spend more time with family” is the governmentese translation of the corporatese “is leaving to pursue other opportunities.”

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[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Bingo. They can't come right out and say "This guy is falling on his sword", but everybody knows he wasn't given much choice about spending time with his family.

Personally, I've been expecting this ever since the first rumors about the highly critical reports on the CIA's performance started leaking. In essence, he's being sacrificed to minimize the damange to the administration in general, and to keep Rumsfeld in his job.

I'd expect more heads to roll as the summer scandals start developing- possibly Powell will be sacrificed to keep Rummy safe.

[mithriltabby]

Powell is another obvious one: face man for the WMD fiasco.

Rice is probably serving as a fuse for the administration’s national security PR. If a terrorist attack succeeds again on American soil, she’ll go foom and need replacing. (Did you catch her referring to Bush as her husband? Just think of the hanky-panky going on in the White House! Not as good as when the Shrub’s dad said of Reagan: “I’m proud to be his partner. We’ve had triumphs. We’ve made mistakes. We’ve had sex.” and then claimed he meant “setbacks”, though.)

I’ll be very surprised if anything is allowed to stick to Ashcroft, Bush, Cheney, or Donald, though.

[cmccurry.livejournal.com]

I really wish I had caught Rice saying that. I only read about it in Boondocks.