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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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To: Grampa Dave
Those who leaked this memo have signalled to Goss who they are.

Perhaps, but not necessarily, Grampa Dave. It depends on the kind of security that exists throughout CIA facilities. Without overhead security cameras, and searches of people as they leave the premises, someone could easily have printed it out and/or photocopied it, then carried one or more copies out of the building.

21 posted on 11/17/2004 10:38:13 AM PST by Wolfstar (Counting down the days to when the new White House puppy arrives.)
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To: Red Badger
"As agency employees we do not identify with, support or champion opposition to the administration or its policies."

Gee, seems like what probably appears on the New Employee Agreement at the NYT....

22 posted on 11/17/2004 10:38:18 AM PST by epluribus_2
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Those like Sandy Burglar and Gorlick WHO WILL DO ANYTHING for a coverup
should also be included as traitors who help foster the 911 Atrocities.
23 posted on 11/17/2004 10:38:20 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
If I were directing the CIA, I would send a slightly different version of the same memo to the separate departments.

After I isolate the department doing the leaking, then I'll repeat the above with the this department employees. Eventually, the leakers will be identified.

24 posted on 11/17/2004 10:44:43 AM PST by george wythe
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To: lilylangtree

The Silent Service no more.


25 posted on 11/17/2004 10:48:32 AM PST by Oblongata
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To: Grampa Dave

The ole canary trap.


26 posted on 11/17/2004 10:51:15 AM PST by wordsofearnest (St. Louis bring back Torre.)
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To: wordsofearnest

Yep!


27 posted on 11/17/2004 10:51:58 AM PST by Grampa Dave (FNC/ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps are the Rathering Fraudcasters of America!)
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To: george wythe

see post #26.


28 posted on 11/17/2004 10:52:46 AM PST by wordsofearnest (St. Louis bring back Torre.)
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To: lilylangtree

The only ones questioning Peter Goss are the enemies of America.


29 posted on 11/17/2004 10:53:08 AM PST by Grampa Dave (FNC/ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps are the Rathering Fraudcasters of America!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

You left out probably the most dangerous of all, the Carteristas and those hired and promoted by the Carteristas.


30 posted on 11/17/2004 10:54:40 AM PST by Grampa Dave (FNC/ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps are the Rathering Fraudcasters of America!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Gross needs to quit playing the game by their rules. Don't just fire them, prosecute them, or at a minimum, remove their security clearances.

These people obviously can't be trusted with anything considered confidential, how can they possibly be allowed to work at the CIA.

How can this kind of activity be stopped if the people aren't being held criminally responsible according to the law?


31 posted on 11/17/2004 11:23:51 AM PST by untrained skeptic
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To: Grampa Dave

Well knock me SILLY for forgetting THOSE guys (and gals)!


32 posted on 11/17/2004 12:02:33 PM 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: Grampa Dave
The farm is worthless.

They ought to turn it into a duck preserve, a nice quaint wetlands for ornithologists.

33 posted on 11/17/2004 12:03:43 PM 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: lilylangtree

I know of no such reputation at the CIA or his defaming the already defamed agency.


34 posted on 11/17/2004 12:07:01 PM PST by JesseHousman (Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal)
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To: silverleaf
"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?"

LOL That DOES seem to be the view The Times is endorsing. The nuanced thinkers at the NYT don't sem to grasp the difference between the CIA providing the administration with accurate intelligence - which is their job - and agreeing with all administration policies, which they are NOT expected to do. Nor are they expected to express disagreement with administration policies by carrying out an active "insurgency" against their own elected government.
35 posted on 11/17/2004 1:11:59 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Calpernia

bump


36 posted on 11/17/2004 1:27:52 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Steve_Seattle

OSS founder Wild Bill D. is spinning at high rpm in his grave.


37 posted on 11/17/2004 1:28:15 PM PST by expatpat
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To: Grampa Dave
the Carteristas and those hired and promoted by the Carteristas

Gramps, I know you know that Carter left in 1981. He and Turner did damage from 76-81.

But that was 25-30 years ago. Any Carteristas or even high-level people hired by them are long gone.

The problem with the Agency is what happens to any bureaucracy that gets set in its ways.

The investigations and punishments of the 60's, 70's and 90's have taught a lesson - don't take risks because no one cares.

Then along came 9/11 and now everyone cares. It won't change overnight, but it will change. It will take as long to rebuild the Agency as it took to tear it down, a job done quite well by the democrats.

The best days of the Agency in the last 35 years were under Bill Casey, IMHO.

38 posted on 11/18/2004 5:44:26 PM PST by lancer (If you are not with us, you are against us!)
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