New CIA director ruffles agency (Porter Goss cleaning house 'up to 90 people')

Knight-Ridder Newspapers ^ | 10/28/04 | Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay

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Amen to that, c.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

yes, and get rid of GAY PRIDE DAY at the C.I.A.

[dennisw]

All these desk jockeys and hacks will get big fat federal pensions so I have no sympathy.

[Joe Boucher]

This agency sure costs us a lot of money for the results they produce.
Are they worth the money?
I think not.

[Beckwith]

This is wonderful news.

Nothing would make me happier than to get a bunch of real operators back in charge and get rid of those effete, wine-drinking bureaucrats who have never been in the field.

[puppetz]

One thing worries me- there are a lot of people who are unhappy with some of the changes Bush is making, people in the State Dept. people in the CIA, European governments, Islamofascists, I'd go so far as to say a lot of Democrats would like to see harm befall the President. I hope Secret Service is being extra vigilant, there are a lot of DOMESTIC threats to the President's life these days, and the CIA still figures prominently in JFK conspiracy theories- he tried to shake that agency up as well remember. It just seems like there are a lot of parties interested in stopping the Bush agenda for the next 4 years, and they are very powerful parties.

[AndyJackson]

they are to fire 80 to 90 people" in the Directorate of Operations

So can someone explain to us how operations has gone awry. Is it that they have brought in bureaucrats from the outside to run what ought to be a bunch of tough experienced SOBs, or have they promoted incompetents from within - or a combination?

[shield]

They're more like the NWO/INTERNATIONAL/CIA stooges...in line with others to do a take down of America. It's now becoming a PRO-American Company again!!! Go get'em Director Goss!!!!