Deputy chief resigns from CIA (CIA Said to Be in Turmoil Under New Director Goss)

washingtonpost.com ^ | Saturday, November 13 | Dana Priest and Walter Pincus

[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.

[mass55th]

Hopefully, Mrs. Joe Plame-Wilson will be one of those either getting the bounce or tending her resignation.

[barker]

.... was treating senior officials disrespectfully and risked widespread resignations ....

Well, I've looked very hard and for the life of me I just cannot find any downside to this. Clean them out.

[Lancey Howard]

...actually the prevaling flow in the N Atlantic is the Gulf Stream, which streams up the coast and then sweeps over to N Europe, Ireland and Britain

So that's where our sewage ends up, huh?

[Thud]

You assume that Goss's mission is to make the CIA more effective. It might be to neutralize the CIA's political threat to the Bush administration, i.e., conduct a purge.

[expatpat]

CIA Agency Is Said to Be in Turmoil Under New Director Goss

GOOD!

[Thud]

My understanding is that the objective here is to neutralize the CIA's ability to cause political problems for the Bush administration. Effective intelligence is at most a tertiary objective. Right now they are getting rid of enemies and anyone standing next to their enemies. Only when the purge is completed will they start to think about the CIA's nominal mission.

[processing please hold]

Thank you for posting this story. I read it this morning and really wanted to discuss it.

My computer illiteracy stopped me from doing it.

I can see I was correct in Bush having installed Porter Goss was a very good thing. I know the CIA despise Bush. I hope a lot more pro-clinton employees quit.

[Snapple]

You write, "I know the CIA despise Bush."

This is not true.

[Snapple]

I don't think it is true that the people resigning are anti-Bush.

[Cold Heat]

Now, I call this progress!

Just the tip of the iceberg, I would hope............

[vaudine]

Good! There are many at the CIA who have needed to leave for a long time. Wish the same would happen at State.

vaudine

[Thud]

It doesn't matter. When a purge is underway, and one is, anyone who is not a Bush administration loyalist will be deemed at least a potential threat. I called this one more than a year ago after the Wilson/Plame affair. Bush won re-election and the purge is going down now.

Note that I said anyone standing next to Bush administration enemies in the CIA is a target. So are those who defend the existing system. The CIA as it exists is an active political enemy of the Bush administration. Anyone who tries to defend it automatically takes the field against the Bush administration. Tough for them.

This should have been done after 9/11.

The CIA has no friends in this one. I just hope the same happens to State.

[Dan from Michigan]

Clean House!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

CIA Agency Is Said to Be in Turmoil Under New Director Goss

That's because the CIA is being run by a bunch of Klintonites. The deputy chief saw the writing on the wall and quit because it's less embarrassing than being fired. The whole management at CIA needs to be purged. God speed!

[EGPWS]

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.

Ahhh, we can't have disrespect looming in our society.

Be gone security concerns for our country via the CIA if personal respect is at stake. /s

[VOA]

Now, I call this progress!

Now we get to see tangible reasons for why RATs like Nancy Pelosi oppossed the
appointment of Goss!

Go, Porter, go!

[EGPWS]

Clean House!

And then watch security and confidence in the CIA prosper.

[VOA]

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

I love the way journalists have with words.

I bet the writer would be mystified if I said "yeah, and I suspect there was some
turmoil when the Tiber was diverted to clean out the stables!".

Clean house Director Goss! Stay the course!

[Howlin]

Dana Priest and Walter Pincus

Alert! Warning! Liberal jerks!

[montag813]

WHENEVER THE MSM SEES CIA ERRORS WHICH LED TO 9/11, THEY ARE QUICK TO BLAME THE "ENTRENCHED CIA BUREAUCRACY"

WHEN A MEMBER OF THAT BUREAUCRACY RESIGNS OVER CHANGES BEING MADE, THEY BLAME THE NEW PEOPLE TRYING TO CHANGE THE "ENTRENCHED CIA BUREAUCRACY".