Posted on 11/14/2004 11:52:48 PM PST by kattracks
WASHINGTON — Arizona Sen. John McCain yesterday slammed the CIA as a quasi "rogue agency" that bungled prewar intelligence and is in desperate need of the high-level purging believed to be under way."The status quo is not satisfactory," McCain said, lauding the shakeup sought by new CIA boss Porter Goss as "on the right track."
The White House is said to have instructed Goss to push out officers thought to have been disloyal to President Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media.
John McLaughlin, who took temporary command of the CIA during a tumultuous three-month period prior to Goss' recent appointment amid a wave of criticism of the spy agency, is retiring amid internal conflicts.
"This is a dysfunctional agency and in some ways a rogue agency," McCain told ABC's "This Week."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Thank you John.
Looks like Johnny wants to pretend he's a Republican again.
Wow - McCain for the CIA changes - are we seeing the two faces of McCain within weeks after the election or should one look more closely at what is taking place -
He's for the illegals and he's for the CIA changes - And Kerry wanted him for his VP - even might have offered him the Defense job - Why did Kerry want McCain in his government ?
Oh to be a fly on the wall -
McCain might have carried a couple states for Kerry. Edwards carried none.
"The White House is said to have instructed Goss to push out officers thought to have been disloyal to President Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media."
My heros have always been cowboys, not flip flopping parrots like McCain.
You really think that was all there was to it?
Interesting - but I have to believe that Kerry at least thought that McCain held some of the same goals - considering Kerry would have put him over the Defense Dept. -
just my thoughts - I think Kerry and McCain are more alike than most people know -
If you ask me, McCain piping up on this matter is BIG news.
The artical makes it sound like a purge of non-Republican agets for Bush Koolaid drinkers when it is nothing of the sort.
Both parties have an informed interest in a CIA without any domestic agenda. Accurate information, not politically correct or supportive information is what we need. If anyone should give any President the plain unvarnished truth, it is the CIA. Partisanship is the problem Goss needs to corredt, not the end he is after. Of course partisanship is not a media characteristic, is it?
Why does everyone hate McCain. He seems to be the only Republican he is a true fiscal conservative. He is sickened by the trough feeding Congress - both Democrats and Republicans.
1. He's a pro-abort.
2. He's anti-Second Amendment.
3. He co-authored the anti-First Amendment "Campaign Finance Reform" act which begat all those wonderful Leftist 527s financed by George Soros and his ilk.
And that's just for starters.
I agree. Opportunism comes to mind. Just look at their respective subsequent marriages.
Looks like McCain just woke up and wants to be on the right side of this issue. I guess he has to do something while waiting by the phone for Kerry to call.
The only Republican on the Keating Five as well.
"He is sickened by the trough feeding Congress - both Democrats and Republicans."
Gorging yourself on the above will do that to you.
Just wondering, have scientists found anything in the known universe larger or less explainable than John McCain's mouth?
This guy gets quoted more in the media than President Bush. I have yet to see him do one thing that wasn't self-serving.
John, you are not the President. I don't give a rat's a-- what your opinion is on any subject, except one. When are you retiring?
John McCain is not really a fiscal conservative. He isn't a conservative at all. What John McCain is, is a contrarian. He relishes tweaking the right so he can go on all the talking-head shows on Sundays.
Whenever the elitist media wants a conservative (wink wink) voice on the television, it gives John a call. Then John procedes to do what John does best, hawk his own views over that of his president and party. Viewers who really don't know what's going on, find backing for their distorted views of what a conservative is by watching what McCain spews.
John is a media hound, first and foremost. He's no doubt done more damage to the party than John Kerry or John Edwards.
Finally McCain said something correct.
We need to start planning realistic strategies now, and that most likely includes McCain, or be relegated to another 8 years of Clinton.
As is the FBI...
You might have something there!
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