Posted on 11/15/2004 4:29:52 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Top Two Officials at CIA Service Quit
28 minutes ago
By KATHERINE PFLEGER SHRADER, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The top two officials in the CIA (news - web sites)'s clandestine service have resigned amid turmoil among the leadership at the nation's spy service, according to intelligence officials.
The CIA's Deputy Director for Operations Stephen Kappes and his immediate deputy, Michael Sulick, said they are leaving the agency, said the officials who spoke Monday on condition of anonymity because the resignations had not yet been announced.
Both men were part of the CIA's Directorate of Operations, or clandestine service, which is responsible for covert operations around the globe.
A CIA spokesperson declined to comment immediately.
Kappes and Sulick have been involved in heated debates — some have described them as feuds — with senior aides to new CIA Director Porter Goss, a former Republican congressman from Florida, who brought them in from the House Intelligence Committee he led for nearly eight years, ending in August.
Goss was sworn in to replace former CIA Director George Tenet in September.
Current agency officials are not allowed to talk with the media without permission. Former agency officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, have described turmoil within some quarters of the agency as Goss gets settled.
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...and the hits just keep on comin'...
And don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.
LOL! This CIA couldn't even keep that secret. Sounds like some anonymous officials need to resign as well.
Apparently the CIA has running mouth disease. If they can't keep their fin mouths shut then they don't belong at the CIA. Also, the guy that wrote that Anonymous book said the Tenet bunch cheered him on when he was bashing BUSH.
About time.
When will W start cleaning house at State?
Don't worry about them, they'll still manage to put beans on the table. They'll pick up some consulting work with the Saudis and the DNC and they'll be fine.
yeehaw
A massive dose of prune juice might go a long way in this case - get the entrenched bumbling idiots out (most from billy bob the pacifist carter admin)
This is great news.
He just appointed Condi as Sec State! Sounds like she is going to send her there with a broom and some Lysol!
Yeah, you would think they would be embarrassed at the sloppy incompetent job they have been doing for the past 20 years. But NOOOOO. some people just don't give a s***about the United States.
I mean He!
Shake it up Porter. That agency is lazy, stubborn, blind and dysfunctional. Go BABY! Fix it!
"...Stephen Kappes and his immediate deputy, Michael Sulick..."
Buh-bye, lib-dem Klintoon scumbags!
a Black WOMAN Secratary of state? What is the worldcoming to? Sarcasm.
What will(are) the sims saying now? SHe is a token. She is a pawn. She is not really Black.
Get rid of the rest of the incompetents.
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