Two more top CIA officials reportedly stepping down

San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | Nov. 24, 2004 | Siobhan McDonough

[FairOpinion]

Two chiefs of overseas divisions at the CIA are leaving the spy agency, which has been in turmoil since new director Porter Goss took over, a federal official confirmed Wednesday.

The chiefs of the Europe and Far East divisions – two critical regions of the world for the spy agency – are retiring, the official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The departing CIA officials' names were not released because they work undercover.

The two officials were in the highest level of clandestine service, the directorate of operations, The New York Times reported on its Web site Wednesday night.

[FairOpinion]

Looks like the housecleaning is continuing. Good.

[vbmoneyspender]

Yeah!

[clee1]

Buh bye, bureau-rats.

You won't be missed.

[kezekiel]

Um... Bye.

[Southack]

Good riddance to bad rubbish. They only missed 9/11, the perpetrator(s) of the anthrax attacks, WMD's not in Iraq, WMD's in Libya, India's nuclear tests, Taiwan/South Africa/Israel's South Pacific nuclear test, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, etc.

How could the CIA be any worse? Fire them all.

[sinkspur]

I knew that Porter Goss was the right man for this job.

[Thud]

The world's smallest violin plays on!

[Mitchell]

Ping.

[A Citizen Reporter]

"The two officials were in the highest level of clandestine service, the directorate of operations,"

So high they were on the highest level of clandestine service, that upon their departure, they couldn't wait to leak it to the New York Times.

[Perdogg]

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

[maine-iac7]

make it a clean sweep

[Paleo Conservative]

I'm sure it breaks the NY Times heart.

[Jewels1091]

First the media says the CIA is a mess and no one lost their jobs over Iraq, now that the housecleaning is happening, the CIA is in a turmoil...which is it???????

[japaneseghost]

the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, etc.

Wasn't the CIA in on this, BIG TIME?

[PhilDragoo]

The agency that said the WMD case in Iraq was a slam-dunk--

That still is in denial over the April 2001 Prague meet of Atta and al-Ani--

That remains clueless about Iran and North Korea--

There wasn't this much wailing and gnashing of teeth Halloween 1977 when Carter's Turner axed 820 case officers--when the agency lost as many as 2,000 in resignations which followed.

To the bleating departees: door, ass; rinse, repeat.

To Porter Goss: boot, ass--and don't spare Valerie Plame.

[guitfiddlist]

I hope each of them was given a stopped gold watch - memorializing how often they and the Stansfield Turner trash they represent, have been right about anything through the years.

[Soul Seeker]

Keep up the good work Mr. Goss.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

GW is Da Man! Clearing the vermin on both sides. I'd vote for him again, but I'm a Republican.

[papasmurf]

"Two chiefs of overseas divisions at the CIA are leaving the spy agency, which has been in turmoil since new director Porter Goss took over"...

Um, Gee, I think it's called taking out the garbage from the prior tenant. I, usually, have to do that when a tenant moves out, too! I hope Director Goss paints and puts in new carpet, as well. :)


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[Baytovin]

I'm not too informed when it comes to intelligence agencies and their inner workings, but I DO have one sure-fire barometer...if the Dems protest the house-cleaning, then it MUST be good.