[blueplum]

timing??

[Cowboy Bob]

He probably opposed workplace sodomy breaks. That type of intolerance is not acceptable in today’s America.

[nathanbedford]

The chief question which should concern us is whether this is a personality problem or a policy problem. The CIA wants the world to think that it is a personality problem which might indicate a systemic breakdown as alleged in the paragraph which says:

According to a Los Angeles Times report in July, an internal CIA workplace survey in 2009 found that those who left the spy agency frequently cited bad management as a factor, particularly in the clandestine service. In interviews, former officers said they felt poor managers suffered no consequences.

But what if the problem is not a personnel problem, not even a systemic personnel problem, but a policy problem which is being held out to the public to be a personnel problem? A policy problem indicates that there is a rift at the highest levels of the CIA over the proper policy toward Iran at a time when Iran is getting ever closer to a nuclear bomb. Is the rift between a professional CIA core and a left wing administration over the ongoing policy of appeasing Iran?

If so, we have a very serious problem indeed.

It is a problem, if it exists, made all the more difficult because of the necessity to maintain secrecy in a secret organization. Yet, a democracy demands some sort of oversight and that, typically, would fall on special committees in the Congress. But can we rely on Senate Democrats? Certainly not.

Can we comfortably rely on House Republicans?

I let the reader judge.

[SeeSharp]

This is John Kerry creating a scapegoat for his collapsing Iran initiative. He gave them everything they wanted and came away with squat.

[austinaero]

It sure seems like the Obama administration is hell-bent on seeing Iran rising.

[ArcadeQuarters]

Pretty hard to get fired from a government job. Maybe selective enforcement to fill a position with a political ally.

[Iron Munro]

Recipe For More Liberal Destruction: A politically correct spy agency.

Are covert agents to be selected on the basis of Affirmative Action and to meet quotas for race, sex and homosexualism?

[kenmcg]

Reads like a future “Homeland” episode.

[tired&retired]

This guy was too effective.

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party named a man it claimed was head of the CIA station in Islamabad in a letter to police demanding he be nominated as one of the people responsible for a drone strike on 21 November, which killed five militants including senior commanders of the Haqqani Network.

The US embassy said it could not comment but was looking into the matter. The CIA spokesman Dean Boyd would not confirm the station chief’s name and declined to immediately comment, AP reported.

If his identity is confirmed it will be the second time anti-drone campaigners have unmasked a top US spy in Pakistan.

In 2010 another CIA station chief, Jonathan Banks, was named in criminal proceedings initiated after a drone strike. Banks was forced to leave the country.

As with the Banks case, questions will be raised about how the PTI came to know the identity of the top US intelligence official in the country.

Although nearly all foreign spies in Pakistan use diplomatic cover stories to hide their occupation, many, including station chiefs, are declared to the country’s domestic spy agency.

The letter signed by the PTI spokeswoman Shireen Mazari demanded the named agent be prevented from leaving the country so that he could be arrested. The PTI said it hoped he would reveal “through interrogation” the names of the remote pilots who operated the drone.

“CIA station chief is not a diplomatic post, therefore he does not enjoy any diplomatic immunity and is within the bounds of domestic laws of Pakistan,” the letter said.

The accusation comes at a time when drones have once again become a matter of intense controversy in Pakistan

Per: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/27/cia-officer-pakistan-imran-khan-party

[Fitzy_888]

Since when do they publize such decisions widely...unless the intent is to thoroughly discredit him ahead of future punditry or authorship?

[sheik yerbouty]

Curiouser and curiouser..

[Vermont Lt]

Why the hell do we know this? The evening news reads like a gossip column.