Posted on 11/18/2004 6:36:45 PM PST by nypokerface
WASHINGTON - A Democratic senator warned CIA Director Porter Goss Thursday that his efforts to make major changes could have "a significant and negative effect on the agency."
In a letter to Goss, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., also said she feared the "politicization of our intelligence services" because of an e-mail Goss sent this week to agency employees telling them to serve the Bush administration.
Goss, former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, took office in September and named some of his former congressional staffers to high-level positions at the agency.
Several senior CIA officials have resigned in recent weeks, an apparent sign of friction between them and Goss' aides.
The changes have raised concerns that agency turmoil could disrupt intelligence efforts at a time of war. But Goss' supporters say he is trying to make urgently needed reforms. Intelligence agencies have been sharply criticized for failing to stop the Sept. 11 attacks and providing inaccurate intelligence on Iraq's weapons programs.
Feinstein, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Goss has the responsibility to minimize the difficulties that come with an overhaul. "I am concerned that recent developments run counter to that goal."
She said Goss' e-mail to employees "is likely to cause confusion at best and mislead agency employees at worst."
In the e-mail, Goss said, "We do not identify with, support or champion opposition to the administration or its policies. We provide the intelligence as we see it and let the facts alone speak to the policy-maker."
Feinstein wrote: "I hope that what you meant was that agency employees neither support nor oppose administration policies. But that is not what your communication said."
There was no immediate response from the CIA.
Another committee member, Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., offered support for Goss.
"We urged Porter Goss to go in and shake the place up," Lott said in a brief interview. "He's doing it. More than likely it's a good idea."
Right. This is a joke.
Exactly.
The fact that he's making the liberals mad reassures me.
It is amazing how they keep telling the President that he and his Administration should appoint liberals to important positions
Typical demonrat; she shouts about separation of church and state (which isn't in the Constitution) and then ignores separation of powers (legislative and executive, which IS in the Constitution).
What in the Hell is that supposed to mean? The Dems wanted the 9/11 commission report swallowed whole.
"Under Clinton, the CIA should be serving the President as much as under Bush."
Were it the case, under Clinton the CIA would be procuring new interns, right? I remember reading something along those lines about Arkansas Highway Patrol.
So she'd rather things just progress in the same inept manner with the same politicization that savaged Bush just before the election?
I hate democrats.
Would someone explain to the Senator from the left coast that the CIA is a function of the EXECUTIVE arm of the government, and is to do the will of the POTUS. Not the DIM hacks that permeate the department that seem to serve the libs in the Congress.
I missed the memo where the FBI is placed under the jurisdiction of of the Senate.
Wasn't it two senators who originally effectively emasculated the CIA by forbidding it to gather intelligence (except from girl scouts)?
You want to talk "politicization" witch?
Hurry up. I work in academia and I can tell you it's a very lonely place for conservatives.
On Aug. 22, 1996, just before the Democratic National Convention,
Ms. Gorelick oversaw a critical Justice Department meeting with the FBI.
mmediately after this meeting, as it happened,
all serious inquiry into the fate of TWA 800 came to an end.
MORE?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1117579/posts
GORELICK GATE - various FR links
Who's Who on the 9/11 "Independent" Commission
"According to a 1998 Senate testimony of former CIA director James
Woolsey, powerful financier Khalid bin Mahfouz' younger sister is
married to Osama bin Laden,. (US Senate, Senate Judiciary
Committee, Federal News Service, 3 Sept. 1998, See also Wayne
Madsen, Questionable Ties, In These Times,12 Nov. 2001 )
Bin Mahfouz is suspected to have funneled millions of dollars to the Al
Qaeda network.(See Tom Flocco, Scoop.co.nz 28 Aug. 2002)
Now, "by sheer coincidence", former New Jersey governor Thomas
Kean has business ties with bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi.
Thomas Kean is a director (and shareholder) of Amerada Hess
Corporation , which is involved in the Hess-Delta joint venture with
Delta Oil of Saudi Arabia (owned by the bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi
clans)...
Now you would think that being a business partner of the brother in
law and alleged financier of "Enemy No. 1" would also be considered a
bona fide "conflict of interest", particularly when your mandate --as
part of the 9/11 Commission's work-- is to investigate "Enemy No. 1".
"(Michel Chossudovsky, New Chairman of 9/11 Commission had
business ties with Osama's Brother in Law,
Centre for Research on Globalization, December 2002 )
"WE also finally have our own copy of Gorelick's book "Destruction of Evidence"
and we will NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, be fired again by anyone."
Thanks for the ping!
The Agency is already operating under some pretty negative influences. Porter Goss is trying to make it relevant again.
Of course, Sen. Feinstein may not WANT the CIA to be relevant as a collector of actionable intelligence.
that chick always reminds me of the evil hag mom on 'kindergarten cop'
I loved the keyword, SHUTUPCOMMIESPY
My question is similar. Why is she making such a fuss? Does she have a guilty conscience about something she or her husband has done in relation with China? Will the new boss at CIA "leak" something embarrassing about her?
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