Posted on 05/11/2006 9:52:43 PM PDT by Dems_R_Losers
To understand what went so badly wrong at the CIA under Porter Goss, it's worth examining the career of his executive director, the onomatopoetic Kyle "Dusty" Foggo. His rise illustrates the conservative cronyism, leak paranoia and political vendettas that undermined Goss's tenure.
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The chronic mismanagement of the CIA under Goss and Murray has been an open secret for many months, and the real question is why it took the Bush White House so long to fix it. When I posed this question a few weeks ago to a senior administration official, he repeated the line that the agency was full of leakers and obstructionists. The political vendetta against the CIA went to the top, in other words. It did real damage to the country before President Bush finally called a halt.
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you probably have many individuals working there like that egotistical robert clarke who believes that if you don't cater to his views, then you must be the enemy.
Yes, but the bad news is, right now, we're blind.
IMHO, Bush, the Republowimpies , and us, all got rolled....
This Ignatius guy bothers me a lot. He's moved right to the top in the hierarchy of traitorous "posties", seemingly without anything meritorious in his background to justify this sort of promotion.
Unique! You are uniqueee..
That's GREAT!
You managed to make so many statements,
in such a small space.
I love it! ;o)
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