George Tenet resigned as director of the C.I.A. on Thursday, June 3. One week later in the Doonesbury newspaper strip — on Thursday, June 10 — one of the characters, C.I.A. intern Jeff, announced he was resigning from the C.I.A. because "Tenet can't take all the blame." Now, comic strips are drawn well in advance of publication and while Doonesbury cuts it closer than most, a week is just about impossible…and the current continuity (viewable here) does not exactly mention Tenet resigning, nor has Tenet (in real life) begun to take blame for anything. Still, add it all up and it looks like Trudeau made a darn good guess at where the news was heading. And a lot of people will probably assume he did write this week's strips in response to Tenet's resignation.