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After a Year Leading C.I.A., Goss Is Struggling, Some Say ["Some" = NY Times]
The New York Times ^ | September 23, 2005 | By DOUGLAS JEHL

Posted on 09/23/2005 11:13:51 AM PDT by aculeus

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 - A year after taking charge of the Central Intelligence Agency, Porter J. Goss is still struggling to rebuild morale and assert leadership within an institution shaken by recent failures and buffeted by change, current and former intelligence officials and members of Congress say.

On Thursday, two days before his one-year anniversary on the job, Mr. Goss met with agency employees and told them that his vision for further changes would involve "breaking some molds" to reassert the C.I.A.'s role as "a global agency."

"We are developing new and creative ways to get more and more of our officers out of Washington," Mr. Goss said, according to a transcript provided by the C.I.A., which did not allow reporters at the event. "We do not serve our policy makers if we are not in the places that they need us to be today, and are not reporting from places they don't expect us to be - but where they may need us to be tomorrow."

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: anniversary; cia; goss; gregpacker; intelligence; portergoss

1 posted on 09/23/2005 11:13:51 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: aculeus

I say we ban the NYT from this place. I am completely frustrated with the thing since I never know what to believe from them.


2 posted on 09/23/2005 11:19:34 AM PDT by bkepley
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To: aculeus

Oh, the MSM "some say" drivel...


3 posted on 09/23/2005 11:19:43 AM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
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To: aculeus

"Some" say. You know what "they" say.


4 posted on 09/23/2005 11:24:10 AM PDT by manwiththehands
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To: aculeus

Does this mean Goss is doing a good job?


5 posted on 09/23/2005 11:49:38 AM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: aculeus
It's only been fouled up for how many decades?

What's this, it's not perfect after one year.

6 posted on 09/23/2005 11:58:25 AM PDT by OldFriend (One Man With Courage Makes a Majority ~ Andrew Jackson)
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To: aculeus
"...current and former intelligence officials and members of Congress..."

The usual suspects.

7 posted on 09/23/2005 11:58:50 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We Gave Peace A Chance. It Didn't Work Out. Search keyword: 09-11-01.)
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To: popdonnelly
Goss has had only a year to reverse thirteen years of Clintonista effort to destroy the CIA---eight years of concentrated effort when Beezelbubba was in the White House and five years of Clintonista holdovers undermining W at every opportunity. It wouldn't be a surprise if he is struggling.

However, for the Slimes to be writing about it, you have to think he's making progress and they're trying to make it seem otherwise.

8 posted on 09/23/2005 12:05:28 PM PDT by Dahoser (The Clymer gene continues to replicate. Now that's biological warfare.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

"...current and former intelligence officials and members of Congress..."

In common parlance, gossips and back-stabbers.


9 posted on 09/23/2005 12:07:29 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: aculeus
When was the last time the Times had a named source for one of their stories?

(excluding Greg Packer.)

10 posted on 09/23/2005 12:07:58 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: popdonnelly

Yep! Also, with so many disgruntled "former" intelligence officials out there, I tend to believe that Goss is doing exactly what President Bush hired him to do.


11 posted on 09/23/2005 12:13:00 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We Gave Peace A Chance. It Didn't Work Out. Search keyword: 09-11-01.)
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To: bkepley
I say we ban the NYT from this place. I am completely frustrated with the thing since I never know what to believe from them.

No we can' ban the NYT from here. We need to post their stuff to show how they contradict themselves later on.

12 posted on 09/23/2005 12:19:34 PM PDT by paltz
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To: paltz
I say we ban the NYT from this place. I am completely frustrated with the thing since I never know what to believe from them.

No, we must know what the enemy is doing!

13 posted on 09/23/2005 12:47:35 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: dead; dighton; general_re; Thinkin' Gal
When was the last time the Times had a named source for one of their stories?

(excluding Greg Packer.)

If you know who Greg Packer is you've been paying way too much attention.

14 posted on 09/23/2005 12:56:37 PM PDT by aculeus (Ceci n'est pas une tag line.)
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To: aculeus; dead; general_re; Thinkin' Gal; hellinahandcart
Guilty as charged.

Greg Packer.

15 posted on 09/23/2005 12:58:49 PM PDT by dighton
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To: aculeus

"Some say" the N.Y. Times is receiving large payments from the DNC.


16 posted on 09/23/2005 1:31:10 PM PDT by foofoopowder
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