Posted on 07/22/2005 1:59:59 PM PDT by zencat
Former U.S. intelligence officers criticized President Bush on Friday for not disciplining Karl Rove in connection with the leak of the name of a CIA officer, saying Bush's lack of action has jeopardized national security.
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URGENT: Joseph Wilson to Bill Moyers in Feb. interview — war with Iraq not just about WMD!
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I've been searching his business associates. It's like they are ghosts.
Great catch!
bttt
It's obvious both the CIA and State Dept. need to be totally cleaned out. These career bureaucrats are out of control and, in my opinion, treasonous.
Fire them all and start over. And if that's impossible then we deserve to go the way of the Roman Empire and become dust in the wind.
I'm sick of this crap and it's either bunker down to protect my family myself or start another civil war to get "we the people" back in charge. The latter seems impossible given the number of badly educated, non-educated, idiots we have living today.
I'm going to buy 100 acres somewhere and just sit back and wait until they all are dead from their inactivity and unwillingness to defend themselves. And if they dare trespass when they are running from the terrorist I'll shoot them myself.
It looks like a VLWC in full swing to me.
Check out post #40
Holy cow
And how many of those ex-officals ended up working for the Kerry Campaign?
I think these FOMER CIA officials are just angry because Goss is cleaning house. lol!
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November 20, 2004
WASHINGTON - Within the past month, four former deputy directors of operations have tried to offer CIA Director Porter J. Goss advice about changing the clandestine service without setting off a rebellion, but Goss has declined to speak to any of them, said former CIA officials aware of the communications.
The four senior officials represent nearly two decades of experience leading the Directorate of Operations under both Republican and Democratic presidents. The officials were dismayed by the reaction and were concerned that Goss has isolated himself from the agency's senior staff, said former clandestine service officers aware of the offers.
The senior operations officials "wanted to talk as old colleagues and tell him to stop what he was doing the way he was doing it," said a former senior official familiar with the effort.
Last week, Deputy Director John E. McLaughlin retired after a series of confrontations between senior operations officials and Goss's top aide, Patrick Murray. Days before, the chief of the clandestine service, Stephen R. Kappes, said he would resign rather than carry out Murray's demand to fire Kappes's deputy, Michael Sulick, for challenging Murray's authority.
Goss and the White House asked Kappes to delay his decision until Monday, but they are actively considering his replacement, several current and former CIA officials said.
Kappes, whose accomplishments include persuading Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi to renounce weapons of mass destruction this year, began removing personal photos from his office walls yesterday, associates said.
A handful of other senior undercover operations officers have talked seriously about resigning, as soon as Monday.
"Each side doesn't understand the other's culture very well," one former senior operations officer said. "There is a way to do this elegantly. You don't have to humiliate people. You bring in people with really weak credentials, and everyone is going to rally around the flag."
"From the first day we walked into the building, all members of my training class were undercover, including Valerie. In other words, we had to lie to our family and friends about where we worked. We could only tell those who had an absolute need to know where we worked. In my case, I told my wife."
Right there is some outright BS suggesting stupidity or lying... "Need to know" is a factual concept; HOWEVER, along with need to know there is a security clearance requirement -regardless, the individual agent does not arbitrarily have the discretion to determine need to know or grant clearances. Anything that can be freely revealed as he infers is by default unclassified. This guy Larry Johnson is a wacko!!!
Joe Wilson must have been blabbing his big mouth to the BBC?!
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The CIA warned the US Government that claims about Iraq's nuclear ambitions were not true months before President Bush used them to make his case for war, the BBC has learned.
Doubts about a claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from the African state of Niger were aired 10 months before Mr Bush included the allegation in his key State of the Union address this year, a CIA official has told the BBC.
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But the CIA official has said that a former US diplomat had already established the claim was false in March 2002 - and that the information had been passed on to government departments, including the White House, well before Mr Bush mentioned it in the speech.
Thanks!
Erasmus' Rule of Government Nr. 3a:
"Every Congressional hearing is a show trial."
Holy Cow!
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