The CIA 1--Bush 0

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

[battlegearboat]

Send Zell Miller in their with a broom.

[Reily]

Zell Miller put on a good show at the last GOP convention.
However he was too long a part of the problem and only recently a part of the solution. (Remember he did give the nominating speech for Bill Clinton!) Now that the REAL HEAVY LIFYING is needed he has conveniently decided to retire.

[investigateworld]

bttt

[Reily]

In my opinion Goss's days were numbered when Bush was stampeded to sponsor legislation that set up the DNI structure. It was good politics but horrible policy.
I fail to see how adding an extra layer of complex interlocking bureaucracy will increase communication and the centralization of intelligence policy. All the legislation was already in place from the original 1948 CIA act to overcome the intelligence, communication and policy problems. It just took the will to implement it. (For example fire a SECDDEF, AG, FBI Dir or a JCS Chair if they refused to cooperate!)
Goss was put into a position that was shrinking in stature and tailor-made to be in conflict with the DNI structure.

[FreeReign]

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

"Takeover"?

The CIA already reports to the Negroponte. How can you takeover something you already control?

[FreeReign]

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.

Negroponte is one of the good guys.

Nowhere is it documented that Negroponte refused to follow the presidnet's orders on the document release.

[FreeReign]

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.

Negroponte was Reagan's top diplomat in Central American. But he was more than a diplomat as the left knows.

He was Reagan's point man for the funding and training of the Contras working directly with the CIA.

He knows where all the dead bodies are buried in C.A. and the left hates it for him.

This article sounds like some much disinformation.

[91B]

Excellent piece, thanks for posting it here.

[FreeReign]

Taking down Saddam was bold. But he has never held the Sauds feet to the fire on Al Qaeda.

No.

The U.S. supplied S.A. with two list of Al Qaeda to removed. I believe all 40 or so on those two lists have been removed.

[investigateworld]

Righto, if Negroponte didn't exist, the "Left" would have to invent him.
-I've even heard he has Che's fingers in a bottle of alcohol :^).

[SHOOT THE MOON bat]

Well, what I mean is that perhaps the new person in charge of the CIA will be someone of his choosing, in other words, his boy. I would think that something like that would make more sense since Goss was already there and therefore not of Negroponte's choosing. That way the CIA chief would be in sync with the National Intelligence Director.

[Free Vulcan]

Interesting. Goss may have been nothing more than a ruse to either out all the players in, or herd by earning their confidence, the Pillar gang, or both. Negroponte seems to be already gutting the CIA of it's assets, I could see him leaving the Clintonites in power of a toothless agency, dismissing them either one at a time or en masse at any time he feels they are no longer useful. Wonder if the CIA will even be around after it's all said and done.

If this is what Negroponte is up to, it's got to be one hell of a chess game going on behind the scenes.

[Paul Ross]

Bump!

Good, apropos post.

[Liberty Valance]

bttt

[writch]

I agree. The Honduran embassy was reportedly the largest CIA installation in the world outside of Langley.