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.
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.
Gee, seems like what probably appears on the New Employee Agreement at the NYT....
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.
The Silent Service no more.
The ole canary trap.
Yep!
see post #26.
The only ones questioning Peter Goss are the enemies of America.
You left out probably the most dangerous of all, the Carteristas and those hired and promoted by the Carteristas.
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?
Well knock me SILLY for forgetting THOSE guys (and gals)!
They ought to turn it into a duck preserve, a nice quaint wetlands for ornithologists.
I know of no such reputation at the CIA or his defaming the already defamed agency.
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OSS founder Wild Bill D. is spinning at high rpm in his grave.
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.
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