GEORGE TENET reports success against Al Qaeda:

“More than one-third of the top leadership identified before the war has been killed or captured,” Mr. Tenet said in a speech Wednesday. “Almost half our successes against senior al Qaeda members has come in recent months.”

A transcript of his remarks at the Nixon Center was made public yesterday.

“We are still in the ‘hunt phase’ of this war — the painstaking pursuit of individual al Qaeda members and their cells,” Mr. Tenet said. “This phase is paying off, but is manpower intensive and will take a long time. There are no set battles against units of any size. We are tracking our enemies down, one by one.”

It’s hard to evaluate statements like this, but it’s clear that the battle against subject-verb disagreement isn’t going as well.