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CIA veterans clash with new chief
Washington post.com ^ | 14 Nov 2004 | Walter Pincus and Dana Priest

Posted on 11/14/2004 6:11:36 AM PST by roaddog727

WASHINGTON - Within the past month, four former deputy directors of operations have tried to offer CIA Director Porter J. Goss advice about changing the clandestine service without setting off a rebellion, but Goss has declined to speak to any of them, said former CIA officials aware of the communications.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cia; goss
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Looks like the night of the long knives has begun in earnest.

Have at it!

1 posted on 11/14/2004 6:11:36 AM PST by roaddog727
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To: roaddog727

Time to retire the "veterans" at the CIA. Then, onto State (pack your bags Armitage!)


2 posted on 11/14/2004 6:13:22 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (The Measure of a Man is the Willingness to Accept Responsibility for Consequences of his Acts.)
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To: roaddog727

This once again shows that legislators can not make good executive branch leaders.


3 posted on 11/14/2004 6:14:44 AM PST by ClintonBeGone (Sometimes it's OK for even a Wolverine to root for a Buckeye win.)
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To: roaddog727
SPECTER take heed!.

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4 posted on 11/14/2004 6:15:23 AM PST by Henchman (BORK SPECTER. Email your friends and relatives. PLEASE do it now!)
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To: roaddog727

Bingo! Goss is there to fumigate the place. The treasonous Clintons seriously compromised the agency by filling it with radical left-wing moles. We saw this recently with the "leaks" during the campaign about the weapons depots. I would not be surprised to find Clinton era CIA ops behind the dustup over the Abu-Graib prisoners as well. Just a few more chapters in the disgraceful legacy of Traitor-in-Chief William Jefferson Clinton.


5 posted on 11/14/2004 6:16:48 AM PST by trek
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To: roaddog727

Good! Clean it up. The CIA has not served us well.


6 posted on 11/14/2004 6:18:13 AM PST by KenmcG414
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bttt

This is great news!


7 posted on 11/14/2004 6:19:25 AM PST by ConservativeMan55 (http://www.osurepublicans.com)
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To: roaddog727

Clean the 'rat's nest out.


8 posted on 11/14/2004 6:19:58 AM PST by Max Combined (Clinton is "the notorious Oval Office onanist ")
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

Yepper - Old vision versus new vision.

"It's been a loooong time 'comin....." (Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young)


9 posted on 11/14/2004 6:20:31 AM PST by roaddog727 (The marginal propensity to save is 1 minus the marginal propensity to consume.)
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To: roaddog727
I am amused by the Media and its defense of the CIA operativs. Firt they tell us the CIA was totally wrong on Saddam and his WMD. Then they tell us the idiots who got it all wrong should not be purged.

The New York, DC And LA members of the press must think we are as stupid as they are.

10 posted on 11/14/2004 6:21:33 AM PST by Common Tator
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Good! Clean it up. The CIA has not served us well.

Exactly why Bush chose Goss to go in and shake-up an agency that has become more like the State Dept and less like the CIA of old.

11 posted on 11/14/2004 6:24:10 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (9-11 is your Peace Dividend)
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To: roaddog727

Finally, get rid of the deadwood. they have been sitting on their asses playing spy agency for to long. When you have supposed clandestine agents (Plame) that are social butterflies, you have a problem with the mentality of the agency. Clean house. And to those that stay, PRODUCE or be gone.


12 posted on 11/14/2004 6:24:31 AM PST by marty60
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To: ClintonBeGone
"This once again shows that legislators can not make good executive branch leaders."

He's doing what he was sent there to do; taking names and kicking butt.

The old-timers are not going quietly. The WP writers are doing their best to protect the sources they've so carefully cultivated over the years.

13 posted on 11/14/2004 6:27:30 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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"This once again shows that legislators can not make good executive branch leaders."

Huh??? Goss is making a great start, pulling the plug and draining the swamp. The idea of bringing in someone who cut his teeth doing operations for Bill Casey sounds excellent.

14 posted on 11/14/2004 6:33:05 AM PST by Reo
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To: Reo

I feel sorry for them....NOT


15 posted on 11/14/2004 6:35:22 AM PST by wildcatf4f3 (out of the sun)
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To: roaddog727
Concerns are growing among some in the CIA that new director Porter J. Goss has isolated himself from senior officers in the clandestine service...

Those concerned include the senior officers whom DCI Goss is about to boot, and the liberal establishment that has run CIA for decades -- and sees another of its fiefdoms threatened. It is war in Langley, and Goss will need courage, a spine of steel, and a non-CIA security detail to finish the job.

16 posted on 11/14/2004 6:35:54 AM PST by Always A Marine
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To: roaddog727

"...rebellion..." WTH? Fire their lib-dem butts! Clean out the rats!!


17 posted on 11/14/2004 6:39:34 AM PST by 7.62 x 51mm (• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: roaddog727

Do what must be done Porter. The grass roots will support you as we did the President so long as we understand the truth - and we don't need the MSM for that.

IMHO and experience, the best way is to do it all at once and completely. This way, everyone else knows they are safe and can get on with business. The longer you drag it out, the worse it is. People are often unnecessarily worried.


18 posted on 11/14/2004 6:56:08 AM PST by PajamaTruthMafia
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Clean out the dead wood and if they go blabbing to the media throw them in jail PERIOD


19 posted on 11/14/2004 7:00:45 AM PST by uncbob
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To: roaddog727; All
Didn't we hear this song when Sec. Rumsfeld went to the Pentagon and the "Cocktail Party Generals" felt threatened?
President Bush is doing some major housecleaning.
20 posted on 11/14/2004 7:08:45 AM PST by trentonrevolution (I apologize for my contrarian attitude, on second thought, no, I don't.)
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