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Why would CIA prefer Kerry? Kerry has been trying to cut their budget by $billions and actually get rid of the whole agency for years.

That doesn't make much sense for CIA, even if they are at odds with the Bush Administration.

From a 1970 article in The Harvard Crimson, John Kerry: A Navy Dove Runs for Congress:

He [Kerry] supports a volunteer Army, "if and only if we can create the controls for it. You're going to have to prepare for the possibility of a national emergency, however." Kerry said that the United Nations should have control over most of our foreign military operations. "I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations."

"On other issues, Kerry wants "to almost eliminate CIA activity. "

This, coupled with his wanting to cut the CIA budget doesn't make Kerry a friend of the CIA.

Kerry also openly proposes to raise taxes on wealthy people, yet the wealthy as a class almost overwhelmingly prefer Kerry when polled.

Kerry is an anti-defense liberal who will NEVER prosecute a war on terror with the vigor of Bush... plus he is a staunch globalist who has never criticized the UN - a bastion of antisemitism- yet American Jews, whose throats would be collectively cut in a millisecond by al Qaeda, plan to vote for Kerry in overwhelming numbers.

So it is impossible for many of us to understand the logic thought processes of Kerry supporters who will be adversely affected by a Kerry presidency, including the second tier bureaucrats in those government agencies against which Kerry has an 20 year long hostile voting record.

Unfortunately, we have people in the Agency and at State who have built their careers on containment and appeasement policies. Some may have manuscripts ready for the publisher upon retirement. Others may have job offers from Saudi-run Arabist foundations and think tanks. Clientitis is a contagious disease, IMO.

The average voter thinks the CIA and State are populated by patriots. To quote them against the POTUS is powerful. It is just like the way all the Clintonista flakcatchers for Kerry continuously cite the AP as a credible source when pushing one or another anti-Bush story. The truth is not out there.

I fear that after the election, these fired CIA agents and managers will sue, claiming political pressure and making it look like the Administration is acting in a fascist manner. I fear a similar tack from the NAACP as the FBI uses Bond's attacks on the POTUS to change their tax status from tax exempt due to political activity.

It was never an option, IMO, for the administration to purge the Clintonistas in the first term. Because of Algore's successful efforts to make the 2000 election seem illegitimate, the administration would have been crucified in the media. Now, the media has made itself less than credible and the Donk tricks are being exposed. Combined with a solid win, a popular vote in favor of W and some pickups in Congress, it may be possible in the second term.

However, it will be used as a basis for the left to instigate civil unrest.