Posted on 10/29/2005 2:06:03 PM PDT by advance_copy
Washington (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff is learning one Washington lesson the hard way: Don't do battle with people who run covert operations for a living. The bad blood between the White House and CIA has been known for some time. But the 22-page indictment Friday of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby displays - in black and white - just how nasty relations had become between senior White House officials and the nation's spy chiefs.
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...former CIA official Lee Strickland, who was responsible for all disclosure activities at the CIA as chief of its information review group, said he can't recall a time in his 30 years at the agency when there was so much tension with the White House.
He said the situation highlights problems with the politicization of intelligence. "You want to keep the politics separate from the intelligence," he said.
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Bingo! Bump
I said years ago that our government bureauracy is loaded with leftist democrats and have the potential to bring our government to a standstill if someone were to organize them in some fashion.
Well, we haven't played Cheney and CIA yet, have we? This should get really interesting.
....Every American can't do a damned thing about the CIA. Only Bush can. You can't fight them in the press or the courts, but you can FIRE the SOBs, and that's what Bush should have done long since............
Can't even do that!
All the manuals by all the human relations folk, first require that the supervisor goes through a number of warnings, before it gets bumped to the next higher level, before it gets bumped to the next higher level.
Then the employee reviews say that the individual did good work under prior administrations, and they can't be fired.
Look at what Klintoon's goons tried to do to be totally rid of Linda Trippe, took them years to get her transferred to Siberia, but never rid of her.
Strange, Clinton sumarily fired every Federal Prosecutor in a single day.
I find it strange that Wilson was sent on a CIA mission and did not have to sign a "confidentiality clause". When he got back he wrote an op-ed piece for the NY Times.
I hardly think this is standard operating procedure for a CIA mission. This is one reason this thing smells to high heaven. I can't recall this ever happening before.
The CIA deserves our support for their professionalism, and enormous competence in preventing of what might have been a tragedy on 9/11/01.... Oh wait...
And tried to push a massive medical care bill on the public without public input. And see where that got them. The republicans took both houses. Kennedy is still sore at Bill&Hillary for that. Bush learned from that, particularly knowing that he would face a much more hostile press.
"By all means, let's find out where the fake Niger documents came from."
That is an excellent idea. We already know that the French were willing to pay to have them spread around. Somebody knows who had them, and somebody knows who produced them. We also know that there were big economic stakes involved in the Iraq trade - oil for France and Russia, uranium for Iraq.
"Fortunately, Porter Goss made some mad enough to quit."
Great. I will light a candle in the hope that Goss makes some more mad.
Washington is not Texas. You do not pet the sharks in the shark tank. Figuratively speaking, you whack them with a two-by-four. It doesn't change their behavior, but it gets their attention.
"Amen to that one. Bring back the OSS."
At least the OSS was capable of performing its mission.
You can fire the political appointees, such as George Tenet, who remained far too long.
You can use your CIA director to transfer the bad actors to Siberia.
You can continue to pay their salaries but give them nothing to do and cut them off from access to anything important that's going on.
Regretably, this still means they are still living high off the hog on the federal payroll, but at least it puts them where they can do less damage.
As for Lind Tripp, she never used her job position to undermine clinton. She only tried to defend herself when Clinton tried to force her to commit perjury under oath.
BillyBob went on to tell me that Libby's attorneys will certainly cross examine the reporters when they are on the witness stand. He said Libby's lawyers may very well ask questions that the reporters might refuse to answer. He said if a witness refuses to answer some questions the remedy for the defendant is to throw out all of that witneses testimony. Hmmmmmmm
Click here for the 'tator take on why Fitsmas was so nervous during his press conference.
Those events had nothing to do with each other. I don't recall a single politician running against a dem ever mentioning the Federal Prosecutors.
Besides, Newt deserves a little credit for the victories.
Nor should we let the news media get away with ignoring Scooter Libby's wife...the life-long Democratic who more recently served as a Democratic staff lawyer for the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Just as Joe Wilson's spook wife is deeply involved in this scandal, so too should we look at Scooter Libby's wife's involvement.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/28/AR2005102800986.html?sub=AR
Thanks. I'll have a look now.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/28/AR2005102800986.html?sub=AR
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Then keep in mind that Scooter Libby is a Democrat...served as a college President of Democrats...his law firm only donates to Democrats...he's married to a career professional Democrat, etc.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/28/AR2005102800986.html?sub=AR
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