New CIA director ruffles agency:Goss filling posts with Republicans

[baby_bear]

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_12997.shtml

New CIA director ruffles agency:Goss filling posts with Republicans after nonpartisan pledge.
By Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay
Oct 26, 2004, 17:30

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Washington - Porter Goss' initial moves as CIA director appear to herald a post-election purge at the already troubled spy agency, according to current and former top U.S. intelligence officials.
Goss, a former Republican congressman, has put at least four former Capitol Hill Republican staffers into top positions in his CIA office and has given them broad authority to make personnel and restructuring decisions, the current and former intelligence officials said.

One of the aides, whose identity Knight Ridder is not disclosing because he served under cover, has been "going around telling people they are to fire 80 to 90 people" in the Directorate of Operations, the CIA's covert arm, according to a former official.
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Goss, who was sworn in Sept. 24 to replace George Tenet, pledged during his confirmation hearings that he would be a nonpartisan CIA director.

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Nothing new here, move along now.

Hopefully this guy will have a VERY short tenure.

s_m

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Wait until there is another leak out of the CIA in the next day or so.

[mountainvue]

10. Yup. We can just about count on it.

I can't wait to find out what we've misplaced/forgotten about this time.

[AntiFascist]

13. This could save Dan Rather...

hint, hint.

[DemoTex]

24. Do some CIA-ers read DU?

Bet on it. We are the left brachial pulse of the party. We are read (and joined?) by CIA friends and monitored by CIA enemies. However, I think the vapid little Bu$h has many more enemies at the agency now than does our little lefty coterie.

[fdr_hst_fan]

2. You seem surprised!

[lovuian]

3. Well Welcome to Republican Gestapo

isn't this what Hitler did when he took over Germany

[Stevious]

46. NASA: Bush Stifles Global Warming Evidence

"In my more than three decades in government, I have never seen anything approaching the degree to which information flow from scientists to the public has been screened and controlled as it is now," James E. Hansen told a University of Iowa audience.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=%2fap%2f20041027%2fap_on_sc%2fglobal_warming

[UpInArms]

4. Goss, a nasty partisan whore

for *Co - needs to be shown the door ASAP.

:puke:

[xultar]

5. U don't say! I'm so Surprised I can barely type....[/sarcasm]

[pelagius]

6. Lame duck scum

They know it's ending and they're trying to pack as many of their people into key positions before the Inaguration to set themselves up for 2008.

Do I sense a Rehnquist departure shortly? With a nominee hastily offered up and confirmed? Wouldn't put it past them.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

9. It can't happen

Nothing's going to happen like that. Congress is only a lame-duck session after the election, then they break for the holidays.

Kerry will appoint the Justices, don't you worry.

[pelagius]

15. I know that's the way it normally works, but...

...call me crazy, I think they would try to ram through somebody in a special session. Wee bit paranoid here, but I think I come by it honestly.

Until the stake is through their heart and they're laid low in a crucifix-covered coffin filled with garlic, I'll remain a bit nervous.

At least I'm worried about what will happen _after_ Kerry's victory! ;-)

[struggle4progress]

42. So called "lame duck" sessions of Congress can do real damage.

[Name removed]

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[AndyTiedye]

49. They Suspend The Rules so No Filibusters and -- Hello Justice Ashcroft!

They've got the votes, there's nothing we could do to stop them.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

7. Goss the lying whore

Don't forget - he's the asshole who, during an interview with Michael Moore in "F 9/11," claimed his office had an 800 number for his constituents to call.

Then, on the screen, appear the words, "There is no such 800 number."

Then, Goss's office number is there, on the screen.

Lying bitch, Porter Goss.

[progressiveBadger]

19. I didn't recognize the name when I saw F911 in theatres

but when I watched the DVD, I was like, holy crap, that's the new director of the CIA's phone number. Good stuff.

[dpakman91]

8. time's up

goss needs to be eliminated immediately...right after president bush.

[Tamyrlin79]

11. The fact that bush appointed him was enough for me...

It was a clear sign that his soul was sold. They wouldn't have appointed him otherwise. He's there to prevent/stop/impede whatever it was Tenet was fired for.

[ilovenicepeople]

12. You need the right guys on your team

if you want to implement patRIOT act 2 :scared:

[w4rma]

14. President Kerry should rehire every last one of these folks that this nut

fires.

[Nostradamus]

16. Porter Goss had "working" breakfast with Taliban boss on 911

No doubt they turned on the TV to watch their handiwork

Three days after the attacks on September 14, the New York Times reported that important members of the Bush Administration met with the terrorist financier and ISI Chief, General Ahmad: CIA Director George Tenet, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Under-Secretary of State Marc Grossman, and Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) -- Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

However, the Times also revealed that on September 11 -- while the attacks were in progress -- the two current Co-Chairmen of the Joint-Intelligence Committee investigating the 9/11 attacks, Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) and Representative Porter Goss (R-FL), met for breakfast with the ISI Chief who had ordered $100,000 wired from Pakistan to terrorist leader Mohammed Atta in the days immediately preceeding the attacks.

All this, while General Ahmad was in the United States meeting with multiple Bush Administration officials and members of Congress: "When the news came, the two Florida lawmakers who lead the House and Senate intelligence committees were having breakfast with the head of the Pakistani intelligence service. Rep. Porter Goss, Sen. Bob Graham, and other members of the House Intelligence Committee were talking about terrorism issues with the Pakistani official when a member of Goss’ staff handed a note to Goss, who handed it to Graham. ‘We were talking about terrorism, specifically terrorism generated from Afghanistan,’ Graham said."

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0208/S00045.htm

[GAspnes]

36. nice catch, Nostradumus!

and welcome to DU.

[coreystone]

50. Nostradamus......Welcome to DU!

:kick:

[LiberalFighter]

17. Castrate that SOB Goss /Let the Iraqi's have the pleasure

[The_Casual_Observer]

18. Imagine the money and trouble we would save if they would simply

close the whole thing down. Historically, the CIA is worthless. Just close the fucking door and throw the idiots out on the street with everybody else.

[DoYouEverWonder]

28. Just think of the tax cut everyone could have

if they cut the CIA.

[ellie]

30. Agreed

Both the FBI and CIA should be defunded and disbanded immediately. There is too much corruption and incompetence in both agencies.

[Democat]

20. Our elected Democrats let him in, they are the ones screwing us too

Someday maybe we will have a party fighting for us, rather than taking the easy road and not offending anyone. That day has not come yet.

We need to clean house in the Democratic Party!

[MarkTwain]

21. ABSOLUTELY. That little whore, Bobby Grahm...

.... supported his confirmation vigorously.

As a thirty plus year Floridian, I am damn glad that Senator NoteBook is leaving. Hopefully, Betty will occupy and use that office in a more productive capacity for progressives than "Electric Chair" Bob ever did.

[fugue]

27. I read an article about not fighting it as strategy

That he's no worse than anyone else Bush would appoint, and he'll be gone as soon as Kerry is elected, so it wasn't a battle worth fighting. They were going to save their energy for things like Congressional and Senate campaigns.

I'm not saying it was necessarily good strategy. I'm just pointing out how they were approaching it.

[gulfcoastliberal]

52. IMO, stopping Goss was a battle worth fighting for

For gods sake, they can now manufacture anything on the inside. OSP is a disbanded Pentagon unit with Wolfie & Feith.

Now they have the keys to everything - all the bags of dirty tricks and god knows what - just in time for Halloween, ha ha. If the anthrax mailers had CIA grade quality it means they'they've had someone in there at some level before/since the coup - the 41 people dominating the * players and anyone else in the way. Now the entire agency is at the hands a few, desperate rethugs looking to stay in power. Hang on!

[OutsourceBush]

22. No doubt all members of the CNP controlled Heritage Foundation

[Laelth]

23. Why?

The fourth aide, whose name Knight Ridder is withholding, worked for some time as a GOP congressional staffer.

Why would a news agency withold the name? :wtf:

Get rid of all the slimeballs. The safety of America is not a partisan issue.

-Laelth

[Zayin]

25. Is anyone really surprised? Thanx you Senate Dems for letting this punk in

[Media_Lies_Daily]

44. What was the alternative at that point in time?....

The GOP had the votes, particularly when you add the votes of NeoCon Dems like Lieberman.

If you've got something constructive to say, please post it. Otherwise, you're just wasting everyone's time.

[The Chronicler]

26. That chump will have a 3 month term.

Then, BYE BYE.

Hello Bob Graham.

[MADem]

34. BINGO! You win the prize!!!!

And who could possibly be more suited to the task? You'll never catch that guy in a lie, he writes EVERYTHING down!

[Q]

29. Yeah...and Ashcroft 'swore' to uphold the law and Constitution...

- How many times have the Bushies sucker-punched Democrats over these appointments and nominations?

- If Bush* gets a second term...OUR entire government will be totally operated by RWing partisan hacks.

[Supersedeas]

51. but but but but--words don't have to match reality for upper crust Rethugs

[KoKo]

31. ROFL! So what did anyone expect??? BTW I tried to find the Dems who

voted for his confirmation on a "Google Search." I couldn't find an article on it. Now, that was just after he was confirmed and I was so angry I was spitting nails...so maybe there's more on "Google" now, than then.

But...that ANY DEMOCRAT could have cast a vote for affirming Goss...is just too low for me to deal with. I want their names and I want to give money to vote them out...I want them "TRASHED!" They are the "Zell's" of the party...anyone with a "D" who put that Repug/Hawk/Hack/Toadie/ with a spy record dealing with subversive/evil ativities of the RW of the Dem Party...should NEVER HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED BY OUR HOUSE OR SENATE...certainly a block vote "NO" by our Dems was in order here. :shrug:

[Carolab]

32. Here's the tally

http://capwiz.com/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=187&chamber=S&congress=1082&tally=1

[MADem]

37. That would have done Kerry a world of good--NOT!!!

Obstructionist Democrats would have been a forever and a day talking point for weecowboy, who may talk about "strategery" but it is the Dems in the House and Senate who are actually thinking strategically and voting tactically. I admire the hell out of their unity--and in the House, Pelosi is the one keeping them in line. I am ASTOUNDED at the job she is doing--I figured she would do a good enough job, but she is rewriting the book, in a very quiet and effective fashion. Props too, to Steny Hoyer, who is a real mover and shaker behind the scenes (and a very nice person, too). The senate does not need the same level of cat herding, they know what they need to do.

A block vote NO would have ensured four more years of the hell we are living under. You give the nitwit the unimportant shit that is easily undone, you deny him bullshit wedge issues, and you attack him hard on the things that matter to real people and will topple him. Politics 101.

Anything else is standing on principle, when your principle is sitting atop quicksand. It may make you feel better for a second, but then you sink into oblivion.

[gulfcoastliberal]

43. I'm consumed with outrage the Democrats let * have Ashkkkroft II

Absolutely unacceptable they went along with this confirmation. The acting director had been doing a fine job and there were less than 3 months left until a new administration - zero need to swear in a new director. His promises were obvious lies. This guy already was a BFEE lieutenant before the appointment. We inflicted ourselves a very serious blow by not uniting to stop the confirmation of this crook.

[MADem]

33. Even if they are placed in NON POLITICAL jobs

Time is running out. We can dump them at or before the six month probationary period, no harm, no foul, no redress. Thanks, weecowboy, for the way that you decimated the rights of Government workers. We can use it agin' ya!!!!

[TankLV]

35. What kills me is they don't even make a pretense of being fair

or doing something on merit.

It's just one big patronage cash cow for just THEIR friends and family - and not once does anyone but us raise any questions about it.

This is so shameless and nothing will happen.

We had better win this next Tuesday, or we will surely look on these past horrible four years as the good times!

I've never been so scared of the future.

[MADem]

38. NO FEAR. NO FEAR.

Get motivated. Watch that damn Eminem video. Look at that needlenose thing. NO FEAR. We have to be determined, and we have to get out the damn vote. If we do that, we will win.

[sendero]

39. Surprise, surprise, surprise...

... well on second thought, I'm not surprised. :(

[goodboy]

40. non-partisan my ass...I'm not surprised though....(nt)

[Zorra]

41. The new head of the Gestapo is simply filling posts with his Nazis.

They have stolen the presidency and congress through vote fraud, set up a republican-nazi dictatorship, and now they are stacking the secret police with party loyalists.

[Supersedeas]

45. sworn statements don't mean much to folks who have a score to settle

[depakid]

47. Dems deserve what they get sometimes

Some Dems never learn. Anything but learned helplessness, that is.

Greens may be part of the coalition... but we'll be prepared to run candidates against DINO's in the future.... we'd rather know we're getting raped than be date raped... or have someone represent us who's content to stand by and watch us be raped.

[davidinalameda]

53. and people are surprised why?

the guy is a partisan hack

I don't see him lasting long even if (gods forbid) Bush gets re-appointed

[struggle4progress]

54. hack haaaack. eom