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Political Fallout of CIA Chief's Resignation

By Madeleine Brand
Published June 3, 2004 at 9:00 PM PDT

NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and The Washington Post senior editor Steve Coll about the future of the CIA after the agency's embattled director, George Tenet, abruptly announced his resignation. Tenet is expected to leave the post in mid-July.

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Madeleine Brand
Madeleine Brand is the host of NPR’s newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).