导读:6月3日,美国中央情报局局长乔治·特尼特突然宣布辞职。此事在美国政坛掀起一阵轩然大波,引发中情局副局长挂冠和二号外交官也准备走人的多米诺骨牌效应。虽然布什总统和特尼特本人都声称是出于“个人原因”辞职的,但美国舆论大多认为他成了布什的“替罪羔羊”。我们选自6月4日《华盛顿邮报》的这篇新闻分析的题目就是《是个人原因,还是替罪羔羊?》,虽然打了问号,但意思一目了然,可谓一针见血。我们还选用了《纽约时报》6月3日一篇文章的部分章节加以补充,使内容更充实,背景交代更清楚。文章对华盛顿官场就特尼特辞职的种种猜测作了简明扼要的分析,强调辞职的时机是在参议院情报委员会和调查9·11事件的独立委员会即将发表对中情局极为不利的报告之前,指出此举表明布什的外交政策班子开始解体,其影响不可低估。 Reading: On June 3, George Tenet, director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, suddenly announced his resignation. This incident caused a great uproar in the American political arena, causing the deputy commissioner of the CIA to hang up and diplomat No. 2 also preparing to leave the domino effect. Although both President Bush and Tenet himself claimed that they had resigned for “personal reasons,” most American public opinion thought he had become Bush’s “scapegoat”. The title of this news analysis we selected from the “Washington Post” on June 4th was “Is it a personal cause or a scapegoat?” Although the question mark was given, the meaning is clear at a glance. We also added some sections of an article in the New York Times on June 3 to supplement it, so that the content is more substantial and the background is clearer. The article gave a concise analysis of Washington’s official speculations on the resignation of Tenet, stressing that the timing of the resignation was before the Senate’s intelligence committee and the Independent Commission on the investigation of the September 11 incident were about to publish a report that was extremely unfavorable to the CIA. It shows that Bush’s foreign policy team has begun to disintegrate and its influence cannot be underestimated.