[Steel Wolf]

That's a house that's long overdue a good cleaning. I think it's time to clear out some of the dead wood that's been rotting back there.

[Hank Rearden]

A search on "guard" would reveal this previously posted.

[sam_whiskey]

This has been fairly to anybody who's paying attention.

[prometheus]

I wouldn't give two cents for anything the F-ing CIA says about anything. They are a bunch of lazy SOB's who fxxxed up the pre 9-11 intelligence,,,,fxxxed up the WMD intelligence......and you get the rest of the picture. These guys are a bunch of blowhards and losers.

[peyton randolph]

Amazing how the article omits that the CIA has a duty to serve the President. Its function within the executive branch is not to sabotage a sitting President. I hope many bureaucratic heads roll after Bush wins in November.

[DB]

It is time for a house cleaning at the CIA.

Enough is enough.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"..Bill Harlow, the former CIA spokesman who left with the former director George Tenet in July, acknowledged that there had been leaks from within the agency. "The intelligence community has been made the scapegoat for all the failings over Iraq," he said. "It deserves some of the blame, but not all of it. People are chafing at that, and that's the background to these leaks...."

The leaker should be fired. It seems they alway exist no matter who is in power.

[vampire2191]

No amount of revisionist history will change the fact that fewer Coalition troops have died in the War on Terror than Americans died in the WTC on 9-11. Tens of thousands of allied deaths were projected, prior to the invasion of Iraq, by talking heads in the MSM. Based on written transcripts and video of President Bush's speeches and statements, it appears that President Bush is one of the very few who did NOT lie.

[Cacique]

In other countries when one party or faction takes over from another there is a "purge". In our system we replace the guys on top and leave the bureaucracy in place regardless of whether it's effective or not. And this is not just the CIA. We can look at Defense,State and every other major outfit in Washington. All the Marxists hired from Harvard and Princeton and other so called institutions of lower learning remain in place to sabotage policy. It's time to demand a general cleanup.

FREEPER (PARodrig) PAUL RODRIGUEZ FOR CONGRESS

[jnarcus]

Yeah sure right...The guys who blew so much fopr sooo very long and at such a great cost to the US are now bitching because they have been found out? How many more moles and useless lackies have to surface before someone calls the CIA and the FBI out for what they are...useless pieces of deadwood run by longterm political hacks

[Prime Choice]

A powerful "old guard" faction in the Central Intelligence Agency has launched an unprecedented campaign to undermine the Bush administration with a battery of damaging leaks and briefings about Iraq.

I'd say it's time to order some polygraphs. Based on those results, can their traitorous asses.

[Casloy]

Seems fairly obvious to me. The CIA serves to provide the President with intelligence and to carry out covert actions at his disgression, with the advice and consent of the congress. People in the CIA are at liberty to disagree with whomever they like, they just don't have the right to leak, sabotage, or publicly disagree with the President, PERIOD. Those that have should be fired.

[Jimmy Valentine]

I wonder of some of this is getting even with the Father, GHW Bush. The CIA gave out some very bad intelligence at Grenada, and at the first Gulf War and GHW Bush apparantly tore off a very big piece of their behinds about it.

Some of those people in the "house of mirrors" have long memories.

Regards,

[finnigan2]

Yes, I think Mark Steyn was right when he made the point that many senior managers at the CIA have become comfortable in staying behind their desks in Washington and spending their time in analyzing satellite photo's rather than getting their hands dirty on the ground in messy "human intelligence" operations. Now, the Administration wants more and better, up close and personal spy on the ground reports and these managers are feeling the heat. These leaks from the Agency are going to continue slowly over time unless they purge all the known incompetents overnight in one big sudden blood letting.

[aculeus]

Rats in the house!

[swilhelm73]

A simple solution - make any intelligence leak a felony with a mandatory punishment of life in prison. The job of the CIA is to protect the country, not try to influence the elections.

One does wonder what the media's take on this would be if the CIA tried to sabotage Clinton's re-election. I'm guessing it would be a tad more negative.

[hosepipe]

[ Relations between the White House and the agency are widely regarded as being at their lowest ebb since the hopelessly botched Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba by CIA-sponsored exiles under President John F Kennedy in 1961.]

The Bay of Pigs was NOT botched.. Kennedy just pulled all support for the troops(he trained and equiped) that he landed there.. on the next day... NO ammo, NO food, No tanks, No air support, NOTHING..They were abandoned to Castro..

The ships just sailed home and stranded them... John Kennedy was a coward just like John Kerry. It was as Khruchev said about him.. he was a weakling.. The missle crisis was no crisis.. Russia could do nothing...