The CIA 1--Bush 0

The Weekly Standard ^ | 05/22/06 | Stephen F. Hayes

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[battlegearboat]

99 and 86 reinstated.

[ncountylee]

Great post, thanks.

[LSUfan]

I no longer believe it is possible to reform the CIA. I think it is rotten to the core--mainly because of the incompetence and political agenda of its analyst corps. In 2002, Bill Gertz of the Washington Times called for the elimination of the CIA and replacing it with an entirely new agency in a book called "Breakdown." We need an organization with the OSS mentality and today's CIA has no capability to foster that.

We need to take a cadre of SOCOM folks and CIA operators like Robert Baer and let them draw up new blueprints. And then send the Mary McCarthys of the world to HHS and HUD where their skills are more suited.

[TexasCajun]

Kyle Dustin "Dusty" Foggo was the Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the third-ranking official in that organization. He resigned from the CIA on May 8, 2006, stating that a new director should be able to choose his own deputies, but also under a cloud of suspician relating to the Cunningham Scandal. He was responsible for executive management of the CIA bureaucracy. He was appointed by the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Porter Goss.

Goss was booted for his support of Foggo?

[SHOOT THE MOON bat]

Perhaps this is a takeover of the CIA by John Negroponte?

[frithguild]

I see the shadow of GHWB on this. Placate the Agency before the midterm elections to buy thier silence.

After November, I sure would like to see the hammer drop.

[lonedawg]

I no longer believe it is possible to reform the CIA



You're absolutely right! The last good directer was Bill Casey!

[LSUfan]

And Casey had to go outside the lines and basically form an organization within an organization to accomplish what he did.

Since then the Left in the CIA has become so powerful that even Casey would have a tough time.

[lonedawg]

Since then the Left in the CIA has become so powerful that even Casey would have a tough time.


You got it! The demoscum gutted the CIA in the 70s with the Church hearings. Fallout from watergate.

[FreedomNeocon]

I still don't trust Negroponte. Sat on those Saddam docs (that are STILL being ignored by the MSM) for years.

Still I like the general... just going to see how it all plays out.

I'm starting to see that it might be a Rovian plan for the elections. You saw how the dimocraps jumped into the usual mode (and the usual republican sell outs of course).

Anyway, the topic is again on an issue of today and "How would R do it" versus "How would D do it".

They are telling everyone why they can't be trusted, and (more importantly for Rove's purposes) reminding Republicans just how bad the libs are. Just how crazy and beholden to that lunatic crowd they are these days.

The Hayden choice is just another ingredient to flavor it and make it 'pop' for the Dems and MSM to (predictably) think they need to plaster this wall to wall, only to be 'shocked' later to find it totally blows up in their face come election time (or some new 'polls' come in.. ugh)

I liked Goss... or at least liked what he was supposed to be there to do. But given the replacement, the circumstance, and his previous comments about not wanting to be there long... I'm at least wiling to hold off and see how things play out in the next week or two.

[Right_in_Virginia]

BTTT

[LSUfan]

Negroponte is a disaster. Doesn't say much for Bush's selection process for a career diplomat with no direct experience in intelligence matters to have been selected for that position. Goss was trying to make the analysts pull overseas tours of duty and get closer to the operators and the analysts went squealing like stuck pigs to Negroponte--and it worked.

The DNI was a poor solution to the problem from the start. Government bureaucracies don't solve problems, they magnify them. That is what has happened here.

[lonedawg]

I loved Porter Goss, he was doing the job. I'm afraid he got caught up in the prostitute thing, this a gut instinct judging from the abrupt resignation It was reminiscent of Newts' resignation.

[Apercu]

The CIA can be cleaned up - Rumsfeld or Bolton.

[coconutt2000]

Suggesting the Agency has gone rogue?

Probably not too far off if enough "policy" level chairs are involved in rebellion against the policies of the current administration. Which the evidence seems to imply (strongly).

[tsomer]

I'm wondering if the CIA has the "the drive-by media" on a hook? There's a chasm separating the public perception of Bush and the things Bush has done;he's a moderate in fact, but is depicted as a neanderthal conservative, he's conducted the war on terror with restraint, but he's depicted as Attilla the Hun, etc.

The media is easy to lead around: for the most part they are narcisistic, fawning, treacherous little careerists looking for a scoop. Manage them like pigeons. Throw some parties, let them rub elbows with the big shots, drop one an exclusive from time to time, and you'll have them eating out of your hand.

Clinton, if he succeeded at anything, succeeded here. He knew the tricks. So would the CIA; it's they're business.
The CIA has poisoned the water and it's going to take a lot to fix.

[McGavin999]

Well, if you can't plug the leaks at the CIA the next best move would be to see to it that the CIA has nothing worth leaking. At least, that's what I would do.

[pissant]

Allright, Mr. hayes. Let's see how happy they are with the good General running the place.