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More Backstabbing: CIA Leaks Goss Memo
NewsMax.com ^ | 11/17/04 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 11/17/2004 10:12:36 AM PST by kattracks

More backstabbing at the CIA as the new director Porter J. Goss seeks to shake up the ossified institution: The New York Times today in a page one story reports that a leaked memo from Goss to CIA employees tells them to "support the administration and its policies in our work."

The Times and Bush administration critics expressed surprise that CIA employees were expected to follow and carry out the policies of the elected President.

The Times suggested the memo could be "construed as urging analysts to conform with administration policies."

But Goss emphatically stated in his memo: "As agency employees we do not identify with, support or champion opposition to the administration or its policies."

He added, "We provide the intelligence as we see it - and let the facts alone speak to the policymaker."

Though no one elected any official or employee of the CIA, some officials there have been in outright revolt against the administration.

The leak of Goss' internal, confidential memo is a just the latest example.

The CIA has long been due for an overhaul since Sept. 11, 2001, when 19 foreigners, who had remained in the U.S. undetected, were able to hijack four commercial airplanes and crash them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A fourth jet crashed in Pennsylvania.



TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cia; civilwar; goss; intelligence
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1 posted on 11/17/2004 10:12:36 AM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Porter Goss have a questionable reputation re the CIA. Didn't he hurt the agency in some way?


2 posted on 11/17/2004 10:14:32 AM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: kattracks

New York Times = Terrorist Rag and Owner of Judges (Marshall-Lewis, voice of the Forced-Homosexual Lobby)


3 posted on 11/17/2004 10:14:45 AM PST by Diogenesis ("Then I say unto you, send men to summon ... worms. And let us go to Fallujah to collect heads.")
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To: kattracks

The NYTimes thinks this is a leak? Sounds more like common sense, something the CIA has been lacking.


4 posted on 11/17/2004 10:14:48 AM PST by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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To: kattracks

This is getting interesting. Good for Goss. That john needed flushing.


5 posted on 11/17/2004 10:15:00 AM PST by beaureguard
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To: kattracks

Do you mean to say that the CIA was NOT established as an opposition organization that is supposed to openly challenge, resist and and embarrass the executive branch of government?


6 posted on 11/17/2004 10:15:17 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: kattracks; ASA Vet

Those who leaked this memo have signalled to Goss who they are.


7 posted on 11/17/2004 10:15:27 AM PST by Grampa Dave (FNC/ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps are the Rathering Fraudcasters of America!)
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To: kattracks

The fact that this memo got leaked is rock-solid proof that major changes need to be made at the CIA. Probably we'll see all the same shenanigans when it's time to clean out State, as well.


8 posted on 11/17/2004 10:19:06 AM PST by thoughtomator (The Era of Old Media is over! Long live the Pajamasphere!)
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To: lilylangtree
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Porter Goss have a questionable reputation re the CIA. Didn't he hurt the agency in some way?

No, he has a sterling reputation.

He has been quite critical of the agency's lapses in the past while in Congress, especially the Aldrich Ames fiasco.

9 posted on 11/17/2004 10:20:07 AM PST by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: Toll-Free

Actually the Carteristas embedded in the farm may be the most dangerous Asps.


11 posted on 11/17/2004 10:22:52 AM PST by Grampa Dave (FNC/ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps are the Rathering Fraudcasters of America!)
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To: kattracks

Fire the bast!@#

In fact, going beyond that, anyone found guilty of leaking that memo should hang.


12 posted on 11/17/2004 10:24:35 AM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: kattracks

The news SHOULD BE that such a memo was even NECESSARY! The NYT, WAPO, et al, can't be thinkink!(sic)..........


13 posted on 11/17/2004 10:25:00 AM PST by Red Badger (Give someone enough EU-ROPE and they will hang themselves......out of pure frustration......)
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To: kattracks

Whoever leaked that memo needs to be fired!


14 posted on 11/17/2004 10:26:03 AM PST by RebelBanker (To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!)
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To: kattracks
The memo makes sense: The administration would ask the CIA for information or intelligence concerning whatever subject they are interested in (e.g., WMD in country X); the CIA promises to make sure that information or intelligence is accurate and reliable.
16 posted on 11/17/2004 10:26:59 AM PST by megatherium
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To: Toll-Free

Take them all out.

I feel that the Carteristas have been messing up the CIA for decades. The Clintoonistas have only had a decade to cause problems.


17 posted on 11/17/2004 10:30:47 AM PST by Grampa Dave (FNC/ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps are the Rathering Fraudcasters of America!)
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To: kattracks

Too many Clinton holdovers still in the government. That's why we're in the mess we're in. Time to clean house.


18 posted on 11/17/2004 10:32:29 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Toll-Free
Your right.

And, of course, a 'primer' for newbies, or those confused on this issue:

THE 'GOOD GUYS':

Director Goss. Conservatives. Goss's new senior staff at CIA. President Bush. Condi Rice. Lots of career analyst and ops people at CIA who are frustrated. Washington Times. Dick Cheney. Bill Gertz.

THE 'BAD GUYS':

Leakers. Clintonites. Bureaucrats too comfortable with their position presiding over a silly annual performance system based on 'just getting scalps' (i.e. quantitative figures for peripheral assets, no matter how poor, signed up to meet annual numbers, as opposed to REAL RISK TAKING, i.e. quality, and, for example, recruiting top agents within the Saddam Regime or close to Kim Jong-il.) Washington Post. George Tenet. Stephen Kappes. Nancy Pelosi. Joe Wilson. Recently resigned three or four top anti-Bush senior managers. Michael Slusik. Michael Scheur. Tens of fired (or about to be fired) career types who sided with Clinton destruction of the Agency. CBS. NBC. ABC. AP. NPR. New York Times.

19 posted on 11/17/2004 10:33:09 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (I'll take 1 good "LET'S ROLL!" over 1,000 meaningless & vulgar "ALLAH AHKBAR"'s, any day!)
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To: kattracks

Looks like Goss hasn't fired nearly enough of them yet...


20 posted on 11/17/2004 10:34:23 AM PST by kittymyrib
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