Posted on 11/12/2004 9:27:00 PM PST by crushelits
Deputy Chief Resigns From CIA Agency Is Said to Be in Turmoil Under New Director Goss.
The deputy director of the CIA resigned yesterday after a series of confrontations over the past week between senior operations officials and CIA Director Porter J. Goss's new chief of staff that have left the agency in turmoil, according to several current and former CIA officials.
John E. McLaughlin, a 32-year CIA veteran who was acting director for two months this summer until Goss took over, resigned after warning Goss that his top aide, former Capitol Hill staff member Patrick Murray, was treating senior officials disrespectfully and risked widespread resignations, the officials said.
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You never heard any of the career bureaucrats at the CIA complain about agency "chaos" when they were back in the Clinton days missing India's nuclear tests.
You never heard them complain when they missed 9/11.
...But bring in Porter to clean house and you sure start to hear them whine!
And this is a bad thing??!! No, it's a good start. He needs to kick some A$$, shake things up. Too bad if there are folks who have to move out of their cubicle of 15 years. "A new broom sweeps clean", they say...
Me too.
I look forward to the day when I'll hear the same stories coming from the State Department.
The CIA tried to torpedo Bush. Now they are getting a spanking.
Next item on the agenda: Throw the communist, Democrat-infested State Department into "turmoil". That place needs to be flushed until every last floating turd is making its way down the coast in the Atlantic Ocean.
Ah! Foggy Bottom!
If there is a God!
His will be done.
Works for me -- Tenet was not the beginning and end of the problems of that agency! Anybody associated with Clinton should have to climb a very steep hill to keep their job, just as a matter of course.
Liberals are far too afraid of decisive action and too worried about covering their butts to work in the CIA! Flush them out, we don't need to hit any more asprin factories! There's a new sheriff in town boys, and he doesn't like you liberal flakes.
That's "misunderestimating".
Whatever will we do now?!?!
The one and only time I ever saw this McLaugnlin guy on the tube he struck me as a, well, weasel. What can I say. "W" sent Goss to kick butt and take names at CIA. Breaking a few eggs can be a good thang.
FGS
Fine idea there about cleaning out State! Maybe somebody should leak the word that the State Dept is the next "shakeup" candidate, give them a little time to update their resumes?
Some people say the problem started when the Defense Dept Neocons ( Code word for those "Jews" in the DoD) started to usurp some of the intell functions of the CIA.
I think that President Bush needs to assert more authority before it gets out of hand.
As I recall Walter Pincus's wife works at the CIA.
He had an insiders track during the Clinton years
Could it be Pincus is hot because his sources are disappearing?
The lefty mandarins at the CIA are leaking to the press like mad. They are desperate.
Shockingly enough, his biography is posted on the CIA website. Army infantry officer in Vietnam, then 32 years in the CIA. He concentrated on Eurasia before becoming Deputy Director. He created a senior analyst position and founded a school that teaches analysis to new DI employees.
Ping......
A good thread to read.
I suspect the Dems may regret approving Goss' nomination. They supposed Bush was going to lose. Surprise!
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