Sunday Times, February 12, 2006: CIA chief sacked for opposing torture
Excerpt of interest:
Porter Goss, who was appointed head of the CIA in August 2004 with a mission to “clean house”, has been angered by a series of leaks from CIA insiders, including revelations about “black sites” in Europe where top Al-Qaeda detainees were said to have been held.
In last Friday’s New York Times, Goss wrote that leakers within the CIA were damaging the agency’s ability to fight terrorism and causing foreign intelligence organisations to lose confidence. “Too many of my counterparts from other countries have told me, ‘You Americans can’t keep a secret’.”
Goss is believed to have blamed Grenier for allowing leaks to occur on his watch.
Since the appointment of Goss, the CIA has lost almost all its high-level directors amid considerable turmoil.
AB “Buzzy” Krongard, a former executive director of the CIA who resigned shortly after Goss’s arrival, said the leaks were unlikely to stop soon, despite proposals to subject officers to more lie detector tests.
Krongard said it was up to President George Bush to stop the rot. “The agency has only one client: the president of the United States,” he said. “The reorganisation is the way this president wanted it. If he is unwilling to reform it, the agency will go on as it is.”
Sounds like Mr Grenier has issues with the adminstration. The comment from Mr Krongard sounds like there was a mutiny in the CIA - and that is probably true. So where are the gallows, the planks and the ropes for keelhauling - the only proper way to handle a mutiny.
re: Robert Grenier
Is this any relation:
[wife, daughter, mistress????] :^)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Dial
Thanks.
Thanks, this comes as no surprise.
What is so funny is how the liberals since Carter have worked 24/7/365 to deball the CIA and make it into a worthless intel unit.
After Goss fired a large number of these PC POS's, suddenly the people who have hated the agency for years, the MSM/Congressional Rats and the DNC are suddenly crying about the terrible morale at the agency. They will stroke out if Hayden after being confirmed dissolves the agency.