Posted on 04/13/2007 11:10:13 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Hayden says he's plugged media leaks at CIA Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:00PM EDT
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA Director Michael Hayden is claiming success at stopping media leaks of the kind that plagued the spy agency under his predecessor, including revelations of secret prisons for terrorism suspects.
An in-house policy of open communication between Hayden's office and the agency's workforce has effectively reduced employee frustrations blamed for prompting unauthorized disclosures in the past, the four-star Air Force general said in a C-SPAN interview to be aired on Sunday.
"In my confirmation hearing, I talked about getting the CIA out of the press as source or subject. And I did that," Hayden said in an interview transcript released on Friday.
"The preceding 12 months, it was almost daily that the agency was in the paper and very often being criticized unfairly," he said.
Hayden, a former director of the National Security Agency, took over the CIA in May 2006 after former CIA Director Porter Goss resigned. Goss had a difficult tenure of less than two years that had followed intelligence lapses over Iraq and the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
Congressionally mandated intelligence reforms that created the new job of intelligence czar also were blamed for eroding the CIA's status among espionage agencies and undermining employee morale.
One of the most controversial media leaks occurred in November 2005, when the Washington Post reported that the CIA was operating a secret overseas prison system for terrorism suspects including senior al Qaeda members captured in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Hayden’s either lying or stupid.
Daily lie-detector tests and prison penalties.
Who’s watching the CIA?
Recently, I heard an ex-CIA report that alot of the agents were jumping ship when Cheney reiterated a relationship between Saddam and AQ.
I only wish that were true.
I’d like to see a report about CIA vs DIA. That would be interesting.
That’s nice. So where are the prosecutions of Mary McCarthy and other traitors within the CIA for violating security oaths? The silence is deafening.............
See my tagline...
Remember, this is from al-Reuters.
Valerie Palme had to cancel a speech at American University due to CIA objections.
Hayden is not lying. Fights between agencies are not uncommon in Washington. The fighting began when Rumsfeld felt the DoD intel agencies should take over the intel business after the CIA failed to prevent 9/11, overestimated Saddam’s WMD programs, extent of the insurgents ability to resist US forces after the war. The CIA fought back by using their contacts in the MSM/Dem party to leak and embarass GWB to get rid of Gosset and Rumsfeld. Ironicly they succeeded. Any Washington insider will tell you that it is hard bureacraticly to go up against the CIA in a turf fight, because the techniques they use to undermind foreign governments can be used to undermind their political/bureacratic opponents. The nature of the leaks were to infuriate the Civil Rights types, feed the anti Bush forces in the MSM, and embarass DoD. In fact a meeting was requested by the FBI investigator with CIA officials to look at leaks, and the CIA refused to attend the meeting. The White House decided not to pursue it. If it was an average government worker or private citizen, what do you think would happen to him/her if they refused to show up for an appointment with the FBI investigating a possible crime?????
The only way to plug leaks is fewer trusted people that know the fewer leaks. Also, holdovers are a great source of leaks.
yeah sure
Hayden’s at the very top of the pyramid of the smartest guys out there, and will not tolerate a lack of integrity. I used to work for him (many rungs down the ladder). There’s nobody who’ll say a bad word about him if they’ve been in an organization he leads.
Colonel, USAFR
“An in-house policy of open communication between Hayden’s office and the agency’s workforce has effectively reduced employee frustrations blamed for prompting unauthorized disclosures in the past, the four-star Air Force general said in a C-SPAN interview to be aired on Sunday.”
The people who released such information should have been assigned to someplace like the Afgan/Pak border to a very visible surveillance station. Give them 4 Pallets of Gear, ammo, small arms and tell them “good luck”. Be sure to put their Stars up.. One in each urinal around the building so folks can remember them.
These Generals are the most incompetent America has ever suffered thru..
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Insofar as this was a turf war that got people going around the boss, maybe he’s improved the situation.
But it worries me that the big pile of leftists in the organization put in there by Carter, Clinton, and even under Republican presidents, is still in place. Also, that there are people who committed treason against our country still in place.
Who knows what minor gripe will lead to the next leak of vital national secrets to the traitor press? The problem hasn’t been fixed, it’s had a temporary patch stuck over it.
Your dead brain believes more the liar...even when they are not telling the truth!
I’m still waiting on the leak that says the Democrats are emboldening our enemies... That is a fact noted by the CIA but when Leaked to the NY Times they refused to print..
Amazing how much of a liberal propaganda rag the times is.
These leakers are on a mission to destroy the Presidency. They should be rooted out and prosecuted.
I was curious, too, and did a little googling. The best I could find is that "it isn't likely she'll be prosecuted." That was the latest from last August.
And the beat goes on...
Maybe the reason that the CIA is out of the news is because the media source with friends in the CIA was exposed. What was his name, William Arkin? Anyway, no one dared be caught speaking to him after his last stunt.
the cia has analysis paralysis and is risk averse to say the least.
Just a very humble, civilian type opinion here.
Uh, OK.
That's an encouraging bit of news, thanks!
I think the reason of less leak now is because the Dims are in Congress. The leak operation has been successful, so they don’t see a need to do it anymore.
Too late and nothing less than more B/S from the CIA. I have seen their poster girl, Valerie E. Wilson (also known as Valerie Plame) .
I have seen the damage that they are willing and have in fact do to our country.
The CIA is a lost cause..... until it helps to prosecute the democrat leakers, the MSM scum, and it marches the Traitors within their own ranks to prison, they will remain a lost cause.
Those that helped (encouraged by the CIA) to leak top secret information to the world, have hurt our country beyond repair.
So did they catch them and punish them by firing them—or is the AGency not leaking because Bush has been wounded so badly that the country’s forign credibility and global policy is finally at rock bottom where they want it?
Yeah her name was Valerie plame but she quit and blames Bush for outing her.
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