CIA chief seeks to reassure employees

[Zorra]

Updated: 11:23 p.m. ET Nov. 15, 2004
washingtonpost.com

Hours after the two top clandestine service officers at the CIA resigned yesterday, Director Porter J. Goss asked employees to remain loyal to the agency and rebutted allegations that he had a partisan agenda.

We provide the intelligence as we see it and let the facts alone speak to the policymakers," Goss wrote in an internal e-mail to CIA employees, according to two people who read it to The Washington Post. Goss told them to expect "a series of changes" in the days and weeks ahead, "in the organization, personnel" and mission of the agency.
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In addition, Goss has over the last month put in charge several former Hill staff members who are not well regarded by senior officials because they lack managerial and operational experience, and are believed to have treated career officers disrespectfully.
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Last week, Murray demanded that Kappes fire Sulick after Sulick criticized Murray at a meeting, according to several current and former CIA officials. Kappes declined and offered his resignation. McLaughlin announced his retirement, and several other senior operations officers have threatened to resign, the current and former officials said.

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"a series of changes" in the days and weeks ahead, "in the organization, personnel" and mission of the agency.

So what is the new mission of the CIA? To round up and imprison anyone not loyal to the republican party?

[aquart]

1. Here or abroad.

I'm sure there's an unread clause in the Patriot Act about it somewhere.

[alittlelark]

2. 'Their NEW mission'

I'm not sure I wanna know, know what I mean?

[ilovenicepeople]

3. I'm already missin the old mission

[mhr]

4. Read Seymour Hersh's Book "Chain of Command"

He gives a pretty good overview of what is probably expected from the new CIA.

[Baja Margie]

5. I haven't read it, give us some cliff notes. Thanks.

[mhr]

7. Said Simply - Think Faith Based Intelligence - Starting From We Believe

All subsequent intelligence collection and analysis follows from the initial premise.

Pretty soon, the CIA will be debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

10. Yup. Creating their own realities. New openings for screenwriters.

And not so many openings for reality-based intelligence.

And I had thought that was what kept us chimps alive for millions of years.

Oops. It was.

So now we are Wiley Coyote spinning his feet in mid-air before the slide whistle to the bottom of the canyon.

Does fascism work with a Looney-tunes soundtrack?

[Fleshdancer]

12. would that turn the CIA into the Christian Inspection Agency?

Faith Based Intelligence...oh dear God, how did everything go so bad this fast??

[mhr]

14. Chuckles - Thanks For The New Acronym - Christian Inspection Agency

I love it!

[Sandpiper]

13. The New Mission

Tell Massa Bush only what he wants to hear.

Facts be damned.

[DELUSIONAL]

6. Sign a loyalty oath to bushie -- as emperor for life

then no fear for the remaining rubber stamps remaining in the CIA.

That bit about bush is emperor for life is the "secret" part that mere moral humans (tax payers) can't read.

Damned if I know how much of the above that I made up turns out to be true -- lately the most outrageous statement I've made about bush turned out to be correct.

But I do bet that the agents remaining will have to pass some sort of loyalty test.

[lovuian]

8. I heard Mccain majorly screwed up saying Bush Loyalists remain

thats ilegal and I think Goss is now getting hit with a lawsuit for
trying to get rid of people just because they are Americans first and Bush employees second!!! I thought they weren't Goss's employees but America's!!!

[IndianaGreen]

9. I expect an increase in the number of retirements

Many CIA hands stayed on because of 9/11 out of patriotic duty. I suspect many of them will decide to leave.

When the next terrorist attack takes place, who are they going to blame? Goss and his Teutonic style of management or Clinton?

[Dover]

11. I hope they all walk out.

Hard to spin that as just a few "disloyal" employees.

[annabanana]

15. How's he gonna rebut allegations........

When he's presiding over an empty agency?