Posted on 05/05/2006 12:19:03 PM PDT by woodb01
Goss Resignation is a frightening sign
Porter Goss was brought into the CIA to try to reform the organization. Mr. Goss was expected to bring about badly needed changes in the U.S. spy organization that is increasingly at the center of so many controversies. However, Goss never had a chance.
Rarely reported by the very biased media, much of the CIA and the U.S. Justice Department was "cleared out" during the Clinton Administration. Many of the key legal organizations responsible for America's security and stability were then staffed by Hillary Clinton handpicked staffers. Some of them hired from the outside, some promoted from within. (Hillary and her Secret War - How the Clintons have forever corrupted the Whitehouse)
The Whitehouse announcement of Mr. Goss's resignation, a man known as a reformer, is more of an indication of the inside resistance to making the CIA actually accountable to America.
In the last 2 years, the only information leaked to the media is consistently anti-Bush, and anti-Republican. The biased media, the Democratic Party, and the CIA almost appear to be coordinating their own special, covert operation to attack Bush, the Republican Party, and America. The CIA is so clearly an extension of the Democratic Party, and is so fully engaged in overt acts of Treason that it is time for a Justice Department investigation and some LONG prison sentences.
Over the past several months, as much of official Washington looked on wide-eyed and agog, many in the CIA bureaucracy have waged an unabashed effort to undermine the current administration.
At the height of the campaign, CIA officials, who are supposed to serve the president and stay out of politics and policy, served up leak after leak to discredit the president's Iraq policy. There were leaks of prewar intelligence estimates, leaks of interagency memos. In mid-September, somebody leaked a CIA report predicting a gloomy or apocalyptic future for the region.
White House officials concluded that they could no longer share important arguments and information with intelligence officials. They had to parse every syllable in internal e-mail. One White House official says it felt as if the CIA had turned over its internal wastebaskets and fed every shred of paper to the press.
The White House-CIA relationship became dysfunctional, and while the blame was certainly not all on one side, Langley was engaged in slow-motion, brazen insubordination, which violated all standards of honorable public service. It was also incredibly stupid, since CIA officials were betting their agency on a Kerry victory.
At the height of the campaign, the CIA permitted an analyst - who, we now know, is Michael Scheuer - to publish anonymously a book called "Imperial Hubris," which attacked Bush policy. Here was an official on the president's payroll publicly campaigning against his boss. As Scheuer told The Washington Post this week, "As long as the book was being used to bash the president, they - the CIA honchos - gave me carte blanche to talk to the media." (Bush must clamp down on CIA officials who subvert his policies)
Sadly however, there will never be a Justice Department investigation into the Democrat / Clinton Corruption of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Justice Department is filled with Clinton chosen Lawyers as well. So we have Treason in the media, Treason in the CIA, and Treason in the Democratic Party.
Is it any wonder that Porter Goss is resigning? My only surprise is that he lasted as long as he did.
Thank you Porter for your service to this country, and I am sincerely saddened that those such as you, who wish to protect this country, are routinely run out by politicos who have now infested every level and layer of our country. It is a sad day indeed.
I stated it here back at the beginning & got castigated for even thinking such. Some at that time had GW being on Mt Rushmore.
In my more cynical moods, I think the purpose of the Republican Party is to serve as a pretense that there is any opposition to the Leftist agenda
It's part of the game that this corrupt "Two-Party Cartel" inflicts on the nation & the sheeple can't for some strange reason see it. How many Charlie Brown missed kicks does it take before you know the outcome & then the worst is to keep doing the same thing. In political terms it is voting these same vermin back in.
He's already been named .. General Hayden. He's a staunch supporter of the President's NSA foreign spying program.
I think the CIA could use a little military discipline.
And .. this guy seemed to be ready and waiting for Goss to leave .. I mean .. this couldn't have been a suprise to the President.
How True Bump!
Clinton, when he came into office, fired every Federal Judge and put in his handpicked Judges.
Bush should have done the same, but we STILL have many Clinton Judges in power.
Bush dropped the (ca) bal...
Much as I can't stand Clinton, he didn't fire ANY Federal Judge. They are appointed for life and can only retire or be impeached.
Bush couldn't "fire" any federal judge.
Facts indeed. If I lean left its from medals and ribbons over the years and too much corrider walkin in Arlington prior to my "civilian" job. I've never voted Democrat in my life. But by any stretch Goss dropped the ball, it's bad for the President, the country and it's gonna get worse.Sorry to say.
Plenty of people told him myself included but he did it his way?
And continues to do so. The program is way more involved, time consuming, and just a royal pain the a$$, than it needs to be.
For example, there is absolutely no reason why armed pilots need be reserve federal marshals, none, nada, zip, but that's what they must become if they wish to have the means to protect their aircraft and it's passengers.
CIA, and OSS before it, always recruited analysts, and some others, from the most liberal of academic institutions.
That's what it is like to govern as a Republican in Washington, D.C.
The media is hard core Leftist.
Clinton could get away with mass firings. No one would report a peep.
Can you imagine the extended outrage that would have occurred if Bush had tried that?
It is not a level playing field.
Our Founding Fathers did one hell of a job, to set up a Constitutional Republic that has so far survived (sort of) even this massive, century long, onslaught of high treason from so many fronts, so well funded.
One Prodigy poster – a programmer and software entrepreneur named Jim Robinson – later wrote, "I became frustrated with ... Prodigy's frequent threats to censor users of the Whitewater bulletin-board. In addition, I was also beginning to realize that the Internet was a much larger audience than Prodigy, which was a 'subscription' service which was accessed directly by modem, rather than being accessed by the Internet." Robinson launched his own website – FreeRepublic.com – in 1996.
In effect, Robinson chose to "light out for the territories" – the wide-open spaces of the unregulated Internet – rather than submit to corporate censorship. Millions would do likewise in the years ahead.
But those wide-open spaces were not as free as they seemed. By 1996, Hillary's plan to suppress dissident speech on the Net was already in motion.
This is a huge blow!! The fact that there is no sign that Bush attempted to talk him into staying and/or to help him in his fight to clean up the CIA is disturbing. This tells me that the leftists like Risen, Mary McCarthy and this former CIA McGovern character are really running the show. Bush is looking very compromised!
I suggest you read "CIA 1-Bush 0" posted today on Free Republic.
A partial quote: "Goss is gone and so are his agents of change. Two of the CIA officials at the heart of that opening battle--Mary Margaret Graham and Stephen Kappes--have been promoted. And the old guard is happy. "The move was seen as a direct repudiation of Goss's leadership and as an olive branch to CIA veterans disaffected by his 18-month tenure,"
It seems that Bush was indeed compromised!!
GWB wasn't compromised in the least (and those in the know understand this completely) - It was the CIA and its role that has been compromised and the nation is better off for it.
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