The American public has no idea how many anti-American, overt traitors operate inside our intel agencies.
Those traitors screamed about the Iraq war; they screamed about Porter Goss becoming their new boss; they fabricated bad intel (e.g. Iraqi WMDs); they accepted forged French intel docs from an Italian on French payrolls over Niger; they leaked and continue to leak intel, whether true or not, that they view as being damaging to the President; they have actively opposed President Bush's diplomacy with North Korea; they have attempted to poison our relationships with friendly nations (the most egregious example perhaps being the 1999 bombing of the Chinese embassy in Serbia); they have *failed* to either predict or detect the Indian nuclear tests, the Pakistani nuclear tests, the bombing on the USS Cole, 9/11, the anthrax attacks, etc.
This is not a new problem. Our intel agencies, specifically the number 2 man Mark Felt at the FBI, illegally leaked classified intel in order to bring down the entire Nixon Presidency for personal gain and vengeance over a missed promotion.
In Iraq under President Clinton, our State Dept controvened our CIA's good work with two Kurdish factions, ruining years of good fieldwork. In Bosnia and Serbia, our intel agencies ignored the importation of Iranian Mujaheeden (our stated enemy), KLA drug running, and the massacres of Serb Christians by Islamic radicals...and instead touted wild-eyed claims of genocide against Muslims there, even though there was clearly no shortage of Muslims for the TV cameras (and "mass graves" of hundreds of thousands were mysteriously never found). Our intel agencies had no clue about the cells planning the 1993 WTC attacks. They chalk up TWA 800's shootdown to a physically impossible "center fuel tank explosion."
The enemy is among us. Mr. Goss has a Herculean job in front of him to clean up the Aegian Stables of our corrupt intel agencies.
The world's number one intel expert, Angelo Codevilla, states that "U.S. foreign policy successes are due in spite of, not because of, U.S. intelligence agencies."
Our intel agencies failed to stop the pilfering of Los Alamos nuclear secrets (with scant, but existing, exceptions) or the illegal foreign financial influence on American elections.
In fact, corrupt American field agents themselves (e.g. Valerie Plame) have been caught giving campaign contributions to the *SAME* politicians as the Red Chinese. Do I detect a faint *hint* of conflict of interest here?!