Posted on 05/05/2006 8:39:53 PM PDT by John Geyer
CNN just broke on Anderson Cooper 360 that former NSA Chief General Hayden will replace Goss as the head of the CIA. It hasn't been announced yet by the president though.
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I'm really liking what I read about General Michael Hayden - in fact, he's now inspired my new tag line!!
I believe General Hayden received his Bronze Star for his service while Director of Intelligence at European Command (1993-1995). That was during the Balkans conflict.
If I'm not mistaken he worked for Wesley Clark, too,
Maybe it's part of a disguise. I have heard him speak and he is no wimp.
The good general may end up being an asset. Guess time will tell. This all will blow over in another week anyway as most of these supposed hot items do. As long as the CIA gets a new guy in that will make sure things change, and leakers are fired and prosecuted accordingly, things will get better. Surely it will take time to rebuild key positions that will take it seriously that national security must rise above partisan ideologies.
I know very little about him.
But
I do know that if he was a wimp he would have backpedaled his support for the NSA surveillance. That he stood up to the drive-by media tells me that he has backbone, courage of his convictions, belief in the mission, etc.
Look out CIA, the second shift clean-up crew is coming in!
Is the DCI a ten-year appointment like the head of FBI?
>>If you saw the presentation this guy gave on CSPAN about the NSA program you'd have been impressed with the passion he brought to his arguments. My favorite was how he belittled the term "domestic spying". He said he'd been on hundreds on "domestic" flights and never once got off the plane in Afghanistan or Iran.
If this Anderson Cooper scoop is true, kudos to the President for upping the ante. This is close to "all in".<<
Yes but expect that clip about General Hayden not knowing the fourth ammendment to run over and over and over.
OK but the ears are different.
Oh Gramp Dave, Pretty Boy Biden would never part with those two hairs he had transplanted!
That's strange. Add Cheney and compare the amused look.
My first thought also.
Expect the CIA now to look into Commie fluoridation plots.
Biden is probably hoping that Fetus Stem Cells will cure his baldness.
I can see the general telling the boys at CIA to shape up or they're going to get his foot in their ass!
LOL
I was highly critical of the Porter Goss appointment as CIA chief. I think he and the entire House Intelligence Committee should have been thoroughly questioned why they allowed a man of low character who was leading a double life, leaving himself and the USA open to blackmail and other serious problems, (remember Gary Condit??) to be a member of such a sensitive and privileged committee.
Porter Goss showed dismal leadership skills by letting him serve on the committee at all. I wondered even then if there were "reasons" for that ... if the committee was perhaps a good old boy club of ne'erdowells who fooled around together and covered for each other. If he claims he did not know about the double life of Condit, then where does any sense of competent "intelligence" come from?
President Bush should have demanded accountability for that serious breech of national security instead of rewarding it.
I never thought of that.
I would like to tell Joe it's what's in his head that makes him ugly, not what's on his head.
Silly man.
Biden = Typical Vain/Silly elite Rat $inator.
"Former intelligence officials told CNN that many people inside the CIA are "relieved" that Goss and his aides -- called "the Gosslings" by CIA insiders -- are going, a reflection of the ill will that still persists over the earlier departures of senior officials."
A sad day in my opinion. I will continue to view what cost did in a positive light---despite the virtual certainty that his character will be 100% assassinated over the next few days. In fact, that very assassination strengthens my confidence that when he was doing was what needed to be done.
Hopefully, another will at some point take up the task he began and continue it---to clean out the mass in the CIA.
"-to clean out the mass in the CIA."
the mess
"I hope he kicks ass and takes names. The CIA is an anti-American cesspool that needs to be fumigated with lethal quantities of rodenticide."
Agreed. I don't know if this has changed, but during the Cold War, I was amazed to read that the Russian section of the CIA was filled with people who were basically pro-Russian.
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