CIA terminates Dr. K with extreme iciness (Kissinger)

New York Daily News ^ | 1/10/05 | JAMES GORDON MEEK

[kattracks]

WASHINGTON - The CIA has told Henry Kissinger to kiss off, saying his services as an informal adviser to Director Porter Goss are no longer needed.

The pink slip came in the form of a terse communiqué from Goss to Kissinger - the vaunted diplomat and counselor to Presidents - and other members of an intelligence advisory board that meets several times a year, Newsweek magazine reported yesterday.

The council of wise men recently sacked by the new CIA honcho includes 9/11 Commissioner and ex-Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), who heads New School University in New York; former Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), and ex-Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. William Crowe. Kissinger told the magazine he had "no view" on the dismissals, and another member of the panel, ex-CIA and FBI Director William Webster, insisted he was not offended.

Jettisoning the advisers marked the latest controversial move by Goss, the Republican ex-House Intelligence Committee chairman busily shaking up the spy agency.

In recent weeks, the spy chief has replaced several senior officials in the clandestine service and also stopped nightly counterterrorism meetings attended by the intelligence community. This week, former top Bush-Cheney campaign aide Jennifer Millerwise takes over as chief spokeswoman at the agency.

Originally published on January 10, 2005

[Recovering_Democrat]

When Porter Goss means "clean house", he means CLEAN HOUSE!

This is probably a smart move, the biggest drawback being these jilted academics (especially Bob "Interrogate Condi like she is a criminal" Kerry) will now rush like maniacs to every camera on the continent claiming the CIA is "bungling" the job. You know the press sycophants will only be too eager to parade them ad infinitum.

[joesnuffy]

Kissinger will no doubt pop up as a pundit...then in four yrs

He'll be Bach

[Bahbah]

Eliminating Bob Kerrey from the inner circle cannot be a bad thing.

[MKM1960]

If he is still alive, in 4 years he will be 85.

[traviskicks]

I don't think much of Kissinger.

He stood for appeasing the Soviets, Proping up arab dictatorships and appeasing the vietnameese.

Good to see him go, he has a failed worldview (IMO).

[mystery-ak]

He's already a pundit..Greta has him on her show all the time.

[Elle Bee]

William H. Webster has been and empty suit of epic proportions ..... even for DC ... sleepy,bumbling and inept, and most recently when appointed by Bush (on a recommendation no doubt from his father) now shown to be hopelessly conflicted (read: corrupt)

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[angkor]

Looks like a roomfull of leaks have been plugged.

[DainBramage]

If there was ever a member of a hidden government or behind the scenes cabal

running all sorts of self serving scams it was Kissinger.

He most likely IMO should be in jail.

[HMFIC]

Agreed. Kissassinger is a nasty pile of cow flop.

[BTCM]

Christopher Hitchens insists Dr. K should be tried as a war criminal.

[SubMareener]

Bob Kerrey didn't actually interogate Dr. Condi Rice, he interrogated a woman he called "Dr. Clark." Couldn't even get her name right.

It is entirely possible that this group was the source or encouragement for the recent anti-Bush leaking from the CIA.

[Casloy]

William Crowe??? What the hell was he doing on there in the first place. He was just one of Bill Clinton's sycophants.

[daybreakcoming]

I hope this doesn't mean he will be there and other shows more often now. I can only understand every 8th word he says.

[Ranger]

While I'm not in love with Dr. Strangelove, I wonder what the political purges at CIA do to increase our protection from al-Qaeda.

[IronJack]

The council of wise men recently sacked by the new CIA honcho includes 9/11 Commissioner and ex-Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), who heads New School University in New York; former Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.)

Wow! A bureaucrat who doesn't feel the need to carry the empty luggage from the former regime! And who feels perfectly justified in purging enemy combatants from within his own ranks!

How refreshing.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"Good to see him go, he has a failed worldview (IMO)."

Yes, Kissinger is a part of the NWO establishment, and all that is wrong with that aspect of things. Not to say others are not, but it is still good to see that he has lost influence.

[Williams]

Kissinger and Nixon preserved and extended American power at a time when America appeared to be in decline as a superpower. Their greatest move was opening China as a counter to the soviets. They also achieved a Vietnam military victory and peace that was only undone by the democrats in Congress AFTER Nixon's impeachment. They stood up to the Soviets and saved Israel by putting NATO on a nuclear war alert in 1973. Nixon was a staunch anti communist and was able to negotiate with them only because everyone trusted him to do it. They also, by the way, were able to keep secrets when they wanted to.

I think many of the comments here about Kissinger belonging in jail, etc. are ill informed. Kissinger helped save this country at a critical time in history.

[OldFriend]

This is GOOD NEWS!!!

Peter Goss has risen even further in my estimation. for what it's worth

[OldFriend]

You expect too much. Most people, including Freepers, parrot only what they read or hear in the MSM.

They don't see the strategic victories accomplished by Nixon and Kissinger.

[xzins]

Goss says it's his opinion that the CIA should be a secret organization. I can't help but concur. Hard to have a "public spy agency." It's almost oxymoronic.

In any case, all the folks who are mentioned as having been canned have a couple things in common. But one thing ties this package together.

There isn't a one of them that doesn't love a TV camera, anywhere, anyplace, anytime.

[Just mythoughts]

"I think many of the comments here about Kissinger belonging in jail, etc. are ill informed. Kissinger helped save this country at a critical time in history."

I won't go so far as to say that Kissie should be in jail but PLEASE making his a 'Saviour' is really really reaching!

[ThanhPhero]

These things should have been done four years ago

[ThanhPhero]

Kissinger was very good in his time buthis worldview has not changed. Nixon was the best available for foreign policy. It's just too bad he was a full blown liberal domestically.

[demlosers]

Adm. William Crowe

It's also good to get rid of this Clinton lackey.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[MeekOneGOP]

bump!

[Grampa Dave]

Good for Goss!

Some of these "We love the World" clowns have been polluting intel across the board for decades.

[xzins]

I'm wondering about your take on this and on Goss' performance to date.

[SweetCaroline]

BTTT

[b4its2late]

Eliminating Bob Kerrey from the inner circle cannot be a bad thing.

Ditto on former Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.).

[faux_hog]

That's what it sounds like to me...Wonder how many more there are?

[DoughtyOne]

Yeah, but of course not Bob McNamara.

[MeekOneGOP]

bump! :^)

[q_an_a]

Crowe, Kerry, Kissinger three guys with cold war attitudes and partisan RATS. Kissinger was alway an inch or two away from the appeaser role of RATS.

[silverleaf]

yep- my feeling too- Porter is plugging leaks.

[DoughtyOne]

...and also stopped nightly counterterrorism meetings attended by the intelligence community.

In the haste to trash Kissinger, I think folks missed a topic that should be addressed. I do not view the suspension of these nightly meetings to be a good thing.

Kissinger and Nixon opened up China as a counter to the Russian threat at that time. They did not oversee a time when our technological and military secrets were gifted to that nation. They did not oversee a time when our nation economicly supported the world's leading communist state.

[tallhappy]

Wow!

Admiration for Goss increases 1000 fold.

Now just do the same to Scowcroft.

[tallhappy]

He stood for appeasing the Soviets, Proping up arab dictatorships and appeasing the vietnameese.

And you left out his piece de resistance which is becoming a multimillionaire shilling for the still very much in power Chinese communists.

[TonyRo76]

I don't think much of Kissinger.

Me either. Somehow he's always struck me as a classic Beltway Establishment type with a big vocabulary and small cajones. Not a cowboy. Not an inspiring figure of resolve or courage.

His appeasement of the Soviets with "détente" was altogether wimpy and Euro-like.

And let's not forget he was appointed by the biggest RINO of them all, Richard Nixon.

[tallhappy]

Utter nonsense that you actually must use flight of fantasy to acheive.

[ZULU]

"The CIA has told Henry Kissinger to kiss off, saying his services as an informal adviser to Director Porter Goss are no longer needed."

Good news a long time coming. I never liked Kissinger.

[visitor]

"The council of wise men recently sacked by the new CIA honcho includes 9/11 Commissioner and ex-Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), who heads New School University in New York; former Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), and ex-Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. William Crowe. Kissinger told the magazine he had "no view" on the dismissals, and another member of the panel, ex-CIA and FBI Director William Webster, insisted he was not offended."

FINALLY - Kerrey & Crowe - ESPECIALLY...rto

[Capodsitrias]

Poor Dr.K. he must feel like a 'Pinetocheta'. Kissinger as opposed to his protege Scowcroft has actually been pretty supportive of the Admin., at least publicly. Does anyone think we would have had the piece of garbage dumped on us by the 9/11 Commission with Kissinger as Chair? A 'dog's breakfast' as one observer noted.

Most of those named in the news item are useless except for maneuvering around Beltway circles, which is what Tenet was a master at. Kissinger, on the other hand, is someone worth keeping on the Agency's Rolodex, even if he stinks like a bad Chinese restaurant at times.

[Williams]

I wonder how many Freepers calling Nixon a RINO were ALIVE or old enough to vote during Nixon's presidency. I guarantee many of you grew up thinking Ronald Reagan was the first President. Nixon was one tough SOB of a law and order president who took on the left directly, was despised by the main stream media, and stood up to the Soviets and for our allies in spades. The left destroyed Nixon for his failure to surrender in Vietnam. Unlike today's politicians, Nixon simply said the leftists were wrong misguided kooks. He started by prosecuting Alger Hiss, for God's sake, for which they all hated him. His whoile slogan was that the elites hated him but he was supported by the "Silent Majority." And it was Nixon's Southern Strategy that turned the South republican.

[nonliberal]

Good move on Goss' part. The CIA screwed up BIG TIME and they need new personnel.

[nonliberal]

IMO Nixon was one of the greatest politicians America has ever produced.

[nonliberal]

Nixon was a better American that the overwhelming majority of the lot we have today.