[oceanview]

clean them all out. this is a good week for mass firings, everyone is on vacation, they need not return.

[b4its2late]

Can't wait for her book.....
Going to Amazon.com to sign up for the first copy....

[Prince Charles]

Get rid of all the Clinton holdovers. A Soviet-style purge is just what the doctor ordered.

[Finalapproach29er]

Good. Accountability is our friend.

Glad it was made public, too.

[Uncle Miltie]

It is good to see someone having to take responsibility for failure within government. As bureaucratic failure goes, not knowing Saddam's fall-back strategy was pretty huge. The WMD I can forgive, for I think they're in Syria or the sand.

[ASA Vet]

MI Ping

[jocon307]

I'm sure this is all a good idea, but what I don't understand is why didn't Bush strike while the iron was hot, on 9/12/01? Why leave the whole gang in place for 3 years and then start the heads rolling? Now he is open to all the second guessing of the liberals, everyone's mouth was shut back in 'o1 and NOBODY would have said "tenent should stay" then. Did it really take my beloved W THREE years to figure out we had a bunch of losers at the CIA?

[FairOpinion]

Looks like a follow up to your very interesting post:

Special Report: US State Dept., CIA War Against Pentagon Breaks Into the Open With Profound Impact on Strategic Policy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1309815/posts


Goss really is shaking the place up. Good!

[Concentrate]

It's difficult to tolerate the NYTimes's contrived writing style.

[Kitten Festival]

Good riddance. Keep on moving with that mop and broom, Porter.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Good ! The end of the year is the right time to do this. I would've done it earlier, but now's as good a time as any.

[mikenola]

As pleasurable as it is to celebrate the purge at CIA, we should remember that the so-called "failings" of the intelligence community were the result of policy decisions made at the top level.

99% of the CIA staff are good people who will perform admirably given a competent leader. If the president, congress, and the DCI reverse the policy trends that led to the breakdown on 9/11, the analysts will come through for them.

The new intelligence director post is a big-government, bad joke. The "C" in CIA stands for central, and the government should create policy reinforcing that role, not creating yet another redundant agency.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping

[Stentor]

The August report described the analytical branch as having "never been more junior or more inexperienced"

Anybody run screaming in the 90s?

[Southack]

Outstanding! Go, Porter!

[rawhide]

Goss for 'director of national intelligence'.

[zerosix]

Another Christmas present to conservatives, cleaning away of Clintonian appointees.

[Grampa Dave]

[Grampa Dave]