Posted on 10/02/2004 1:15:19 PM PDT by Perdogg
When the president cannot trust his own CIA, the nation faces dire consequences. Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak's revelations this week that CIA officer Paul R. Pillar is actively undermining President Bush fail to portray the depth of animosity between factions within the CIA and the White House. Mr. Pillar, who currently serves on the CIA's National Intelligence Council (NIC) as National Intelligence Officer (NIO) for the Near East and South Asia, is the lead author of the classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq's future recently leaked to the New York Times.
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Right after this story came out Novak suffered an "accidental fall" and broke his hip.
You shouldn't post stuff like that. A girl could get really paranoid :-)
I didn't know the name before, Paul R. Pillar, but it was pretty obvious what was going down.
George Tenet was another one.
I've said it a thousand time. Bush should have housecleaned the CIA and the FBI the day after he took office, starting with Tenet.
It will take a long, long time to fix the CIA, if indeed it is fixable at all. But we can at least make a start by cleaning out the Communist ideologues and clintonoid timeservers.
Fred Barnes was hinting at this the other day on Brit's panel.. re: the WH is hogtied from talking further about prewar Iraq-AQ ties because of CIA leaks to the papers..
Nice is one thing, being a patsy is another.
I heard that the DIA had over 1 million documents to show AQ-Iraq link.
Sure sounds like it. In one place, it says that 9/11 happened on his watch, so he was likely there before the 2000 elections.
---I guess I am repeating what you have said by suggesting that the housecleaning start with anyone who went to an Ivy League university---
---I guess I am repeating what you have said by suggesting that the housecleaning start with anyone who went to an Ivy League university---
this is blowback....did you really think the CIA would take the fall for the mistakes made prior to 9/11.
they're not happy but more important is they know where the bodies are buried.
You should read Bush vs. The Beltway by Laurie Mylroie. She nailed Pillar hands down as a subverter of the President.
Hired under Carter. Promoted by X42i
The President is the President. He should have his own men in ALL sensitive positions. You fire those who leak or undermine. You replace them with your own people, just like Clinton FIRED all the prosecutors when he took over. If the Senate doesn't confirm, you make interim appointments. EVERYBODY, if you have to. Your responsibility is to the American people NOT the Democrats. Politics is tough business and you have to be mentally tough if you want to rule. The more they squeel, the tougher you get. Worry about the consequences LATER. oftentimes later never comes. And if it does at least it will be on your terms.
Real intelligence is best left to the "unprofessional" -- adhoc temporaries, the amateur, the mercenary, the merchant and the correspondent.
Rebuke? Sounds like something Kerry would want to do to Bin Laden, rebuke him severely. I believe the word in the Constitution is "Reprisal" :)
What we need is a nuclear bunker buster of rebuke, but that's another story.
bttt
oldie ping
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