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 have my doubts about this theory, but if true it shows not only unprofessionalism in the CIA but also a lack of instincts for self-preservation. Sure we now know United flight 93 was intended to hit the Capitol, but it just as easily could have been headed to Langley. If I were in the CIA, I'd be worried about finding and killing Al Qaeda before they kill me.
Maybe instead of last minute pardons, before he leaves office Bush can have a last minute massacre -- fire everyone in the administrative branch suspected of unamerican activity. Won't happen, but I can dream.
The treasonous left calls the Republicans the "pugs." I would call them that too, as a compliment, meaning "pugnacious" if they would just bloody well fight for something.
Yes. Thank you, Porter Goss.
Cnn trying to connect Goss with Cunningham via Foggo?
It's never too late.
And .. if Porter couldn't get the job done .. I expect the next guy will be even a worse hardnose. The dems need to be careful what they wish for.
Porter may have just been there to draw these people out by shaking the tree a little .. time will tell.
what you said...bttt
In this instance, it is accurate to state:
BUSH`S FAULT !
The President should have cleaned out the FBI/CIA/State
Dept. in his first year !!!
Bush blew it.
Too little to late.
The statement in my post "this tells me..." shows I was speculating. We were all speculating at that point - except for, possibly, you who seem to allude to inside info. Please show us that your self-admiration is not misplaced by sharing your "facts/details" with us, the unwashed.
I am listening to Frank Gaffney on Hugh Hewitt as I am writing you. He evidently thinks that Goss was promised access and latitude that was severely compromised by Negroponte's appointment and the imposition of another layer of bureaucracy between the DCI and the President.
I'd be interested in your reaction to that line of thinking.
I too am saddened to see Mr. Goss leaving. There is a butt..
If the Clintons did the housecleaning, then by God, Bush needed to do the same--all of it, pack it on heavy, every nook and crannie and let the media have their weeks and months of scrambling stories. Think: if all discharges happened very quickly media would know which story to pursue first.
Since Bush hasn't done this but placed Arlen Spector, tried for Harriet Myers, is weak on immigration, spent more money than any government, and turned over ports to Dubai, then to Hutchison Whampoa you have to wonder about the "political capitol" he is spending and who is getting knifed.
From your lips to God's ears.
McGovern is a CABALIST!
I hope it's something as simple as him running for Senate from FL. I tend not to believe, but at least I can hope!
I should have read a bit further before replying to 15.
I hope you're right.
How about Tom Delay?
Hmmm?
"When we change Presidents, it is customary for most top officials in these agencies to tender resigntations to make reorganization move more smoothly. Before Clinton, most were not accepted and the person remained in place. Clinton accepted them all... prosecutors, administrators, everyone. Then he filled the organizations with hand picked liberals. With his "new tone," President Bush did not accept many at all."
A) When will we ever learn? Liberals play for keeps and do *EVERYTHING* to gain,hold and maintain power and nothing is beneath their 'end-justifies-means' approach.
B) I doubt the liberals offered their resignations. Look at Frances Berry, the clod on the civil rights commision who stayed or tried to stay after her term was up, trying to force Bush administration to simply accept her running the commission long after Bush had a replacement! ... they had to pry her out of that position with a crowbar.
C) If the CIA needed house cleaning, and Goss was the man to do it, and Bush wanted it done, it should have been done by now. I'm with those who consider this excuse-making. It's year 5 of the Bush administration. Play hardball and get the treasonous vipers out of there. Period.
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