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CIA Director Goss Resigns after Non-Stop INTERNAL CIA ATTACKS by Democrat Plants
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Posted on 05/05/2006 12:19:03 PM PDT by woodb01
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To: woodb01
This is a huge blow!! The fact that there is no sign that Bush attempted to talk him into staying and/or to help him in his fight to clean up the CIA is disturbing.
This tells me that the leftists like Risen, Mary McCarthy and this former CIA McGovern character are really running the show.
Bush is looking very compromised!
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posted on
05/05/2006 1:18:50 PM PDT
by
HardStarboard
(Hey, march some more - its helping get the wall built!)
To: Boundless
I think the real lesson of the Bush administration is that you can not leave any "left over" bureacrats.
ALL clintonistas should have been terminated immediatly.
Mineta of the transportation administration should never have been allowed to stay. He held up armed pilots.
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posted on
05/05/2006 1:20:46 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: Publius6961
I have another theory. If the CIA is actually going to go after and prosecute the seditionists and traitors inside the agency, is Porter Goss the best man from a public relations standpoint to carry out the purge. I don't think so. Porter Goss is identified as a GOP politician and a less overtly political appointee would better serve the President to insulate him and the GOP from attacks from the left and the media.
The departure of Porter Goss may be a good sign. It may mean that this administration is serious about restoring the CIA to it's former reliability.
PresidentFelon
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posted on
05/05/2006 1:44:20 PM PDT
by
PresidentFelon
(Reuter's Reporter Adam Entous beats his mother)
To: woodb01
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posted on
05/05/2006 1:45:39 PM PDT
by
Alia
To: tobyhill; Argus; woodb01
You're probably right and the clean up may be bigger than Goss can handle? It's really not that bad of timing because they're close enough to summer recess and Bush can get someone in there under a recess appointment since any hearings the Rats will be double obstructionist. Tenet shoud have been fired on 9-12-2001. Goss should have been appointed the same day, and confirmed quickly. W is too nice most of the time.
To: EQAndyBuzz
I'm with you, brother. We need people who are committed to keeping the place safe and secure, not clymers worried whose butt to kiss of a person who's kissing a butt above his.
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posted on
05/05/2006 1:54:13 PM PDT
by
Dahoser
(Time to condense the stupid party nonsense: Terry Tate for RNC chairman.)
To: woodb01
Bush doesn't like to fire anybody! That is the problem we have here. What he needs is a Hatchet Man! A mean SOB who will go out and cut them off at the knee and get them out of there!
Who would you suggest?
To: SE Mom
Thus far, I have no idea.
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posted on
05/05/2006 1:56:47 PM PDT
by
onyx
(They're ILLEGAL! --- tough, FACTS DON'T MATTER.)
To: Paleo Conservative
I agree with you one hundred percent.
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posted on
05/05/2006 1:58:10 PM PDT
by
Argus
To: virginiaspook
Porter Goss had his challenges in the beginning with many people who were loyal to George Tenet ureluctant to give him a chance. As time went along, he began to win the loyalty of many who believed he would do some serious "housecleaning" without creating a bloodbath. A fine strategy for mainaining the status quo, but a terrible one for fixing the problems at the CIA. This administration has an obsession with the idea of 'surgical, bloodless' conflict, either in war or in government. There are entrenched and systemic problems at the CIA that won't be fixed without some kind of a purge.
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posted on
05/05/2006 2:01:06 PM PDT
by
Steel Wolf
(- Islam will never survive being laughed at. -)
To: onyx
They should bring Newt Gingrich in as the "hatchet man"
That guy's good enough he could use every firing for political advantage to take more Congressional seats...
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posted on
05/05/2006 2:02:16 PM PDT
by
woodb01
(ANTI-DNC Web Portal at ---> http://www.noDNC.com)
To: woodb01
Thank you Porter for your service to this country, and I am sincerely saddened that those such as you, who wish to protect this country, are routinely run out by politicos who have now infested every level and layer of our country. It is a sad day indeed. Perhaps it will give Goss an opportunity to go public with what he found there. Name and all.
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posted on
05/05/2006 2:06:52 PM PDT
by
Ditto
(People who fail to secure jobs as fence posts go into journalism.)
To: glorgau
"All this whining about Clinton operatives in the various organs of the government. The Bush administration is going on it's 5th year and has ample opportunity to clean house. They should just just get on with it. The usual suspects will spew their hate and lies, but so what?"
Not quite:
Insight on the News: Hey, Orkin Man! - political appointees becoming part of the bureaucracy
http://www.looksmartbonds.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_39_16/ai_66356292
Between October 1998 and June of this year, 57 people appointed to their high positions by the White House, usually because of their ideological affinity with the president, underwent sudden, seemingly miraculous, transformations into professional civil servants, according to a General Accounting Office (GAO) study. Although not unknown during other administration changeovers, the practice of burrowing-in is being watched closely by some on Capitol Hill who worry not only about whether its unfair to career civil servants and violates merit-system protections but whether the lingering presence of such moles might not leave an indelible ideological stamp on the supposedly nonpartisan machinery of government.
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posted on
05/05/2006 2:06:59 PM PDT
by
Sam Hill
To: sittnick
I understand he is on good terms with a former director of the CIA, George the Elder.Thats the problem.
They either have something really good on the Bush family or the Bush family just doesn't understand how to advance an agenda.
Leaving the CIA under a Klinton appointee after winning in 2000 is pretty much incomprehensible.
We are fighting an enemy abroad and an enemy within , that being the apparatchik Democrat appointees at CIA, State, and Justice/FBI.
That W to this very day is not doing something about this is astounding and extremely suspicious.
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posted on
05/05/2006 2:08:33 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(Peace is not an option)
To: woodb01
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posted on
05/05/2006 2:08:41 PM PDT
by
onyx
(They're ILLEGAL! --- tough, FACTS DON'T MATTER.)
To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
I agree. Send him your resume! Quickly!
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posted on
05/05/2006 2:08:51 PM PDT
by
Annie5622
(Democrats DO have a plan! They apparently plan to stay stupid.)
To: sittnick
GHW Bush was director 30 years ago, and even at that was only director for less than two years. I doubt anyone he knew at the CIA is still employed there.
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posted on
05/05/2006 2:12:16 PM PDT
by
Ditto
(People who fail to secure jobs as fence posts go into journalism.)
To: woodb01
OK, I'm having a critique Bush moment. I am guessing that Goss was encouraged to leave because Bush sometimes errs a bit to far in the direction of Dale Carnegie. Goss is not a Dale Caregie type of guy. Too bad he's leaving. The CIA does not need Dale Carnegie types right now. It needs Gen. Patton types.
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posted on
05/05/2006 2:12:30 PM PDT
by
GOP_1900AD
(Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
To: HardStarboard
This is a huge blow!! The fact that there is no sign that Bush attempted to talk him into staying and/or to help him in his fight to clean up the CIA is disturbing. This tells me that the leftists like Risen, Mary McCarthy and this former CIA McGovern character are really running the show. Bush is looking very compromised! It is not a "huge" blow (for starters). And you have no idea what in the hell you are talking about!
Mr. Goss is a good man. He did well while Dir. Without a doubt.
But way too many on here are reaching way too far about facts and situations they know absolutely nothing about.
"Speculating" is fine....silly posts like yours above are just foolishness wrap in a ridiculous amount of self admiration about a situation in which you don't know 90% of the facts / details.
To: Paleo Conservative
I heard some time ago that some intelligence officers are withholding known information on Bin Laden's whereabouts because they know that a capture or kill of him would give Bush a boost. Goss was put in there not only to make changes internally but to change back the CIA to intelligence gathering and covert actions. If one looks at every Former CIA agent, they all have a book to write and they all claim the same thing, they knew where Bin Laden was but the higher ups didn't listen. I find this the biggest crock of crap I've ever heard because the military can now deploy air strikes in a matter of minutes after notification and I have never heard any "higher up" claim they didn't want Bin Laden.
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posted on
05/05/2006 2:16:40 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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