No. 3 CIA Pick Was Caught Shoplifting-US Paper

[southernleftylady]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The man chosen for the third-ranking job in the CIA (news - web sites) resigned under pressure from the U.S. spy agency more than 20 years ago after being caught shoplifting, The Washington Post reported Sunday.



Michael Kostiw, picked by new CIA Director Porter Goss to be the agency's executive director, has not received final clearance to take the job, although he had been scheduled to be sworn in Monday, the newspaper reported, citing a friend of Kostiw whom it did not identify.

Citing past and current agency officials, the Post said Kostiw was caught shoplifting in late 1981 at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. He had been an officer for 10 years at that point
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1896&ncid=1896&e=10&u=/nm/20041003/us_nm/security_cia_dc

[CarolynEC]

1. Shoplifting? Then he clearly is not qualified.

Most Bushies have robbed pensioners, bankrupted companies -- heck a few of them have even looted whole countries. Shoplifting? That's just not up to GOP standards, I'm afraid.

[snippy]

2. It was 20 years ago. Maybe he was just a junior republican back then. n/t

[southernleftylady]

3. and how long ago was all of Bush's escapades? nt

[snippy]

7. Many of Bush's felonies have been recent ones. n/t

[Old and In the Way]

6. thank you.

The right balance of cyicism and truth struck.

:-)

[SoCalDem]

4. a youthful indisgression...nothing to see here..move along

if he was a democrat, we would have to have a special investigator, and a truth squad...but...

[mountainvue]

5. Odd. He was

shoplifting at CIA Headquarters in Langley. What the hell was he shoplifting?

[SoCalDem]

8. Exploding key rings from the gift shop??

:shrug:

[951]

9. They have a store at the CIA HQ?

[indepat]

10. In the least it is time to get off lovely Winona Rider's back and case

[indepat]

11. I should have added such piffles don't matter a whit if your ideology and

politics are right.