Porter Goss memo to CIA employees: "support the Bush Administration"

[npincus]

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash7.htm

GOSS URGES CIA EMPLOYEES TO SUPPORT BUSH POLICIES IN MEMO
Tue Nov 16 2004 21:18:43 ET

Porter Goss, the new intelligence chief, has told Central Intelligence Agency employees that their job is to "support the administration and its policies in our work," a copy of the internal memorandum shows.

The NEW YORK TIMES is planning to lead Wednesday's paper with the memo, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE.

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"As agency employees we do not identify with, support or champion opposition to the administration or its policies," Goss said in the memorandum, which was circulated late on Monday. He said in the document that he was seeking "to clarify beyond doubt the rules of the road."

Ladies and Gentleman, welcome to the Dark Age where dissent will not be tolerated... Heil B*shler.

[Kahuna]

1. I wonder if the main stream media is sorry and/or scared that they

supported this Hitler administration wannabee? :puke:

[asjr]

2. They should be sorry but they brought it on

themselves. They will never be able to dig themselves out of this mess.

[feistydem]

3. It's always darkest before the dawn.

Welcome to the Dark Ages 2.0.

I hope we're all still around to greet the dawn.

[Jim Sagle]

So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper,

that's the time to do it. ;-)

[RBHam]

4. The Loyalty Oath

http://www.protestzone.com/Oaths.htm

[mmonk]

5. Forget the pledge

to uphold and protect the constitution, this is about following your leader. Is zat klear?

[pacalo]

6. The CIA employees also take an oath to protect & defend

the Constitution -- the president isn't king, regardless of what his aides tell him.

[KnowerOfLogic]

7. Why do we even need a CIA if ideological cheerleading is all they want?

I thought that the CIA was supposed to be "reality-based," you know, just the facts, ma'am. Apparently now it going to be a propaganda arm of the Bush cartel, digging up convenient "facts" on demand to support the emperor's latest pet policy.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Fucking asshole

The CIA's job is to collect intelligence. They are suppose to provide the government information they need to know not platitudes they want to hear.

[Cat Atomic]

9. Isn't that kind of... out of line?

Seriously- someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that politics shouldn't approach the CIA at all, ideally. I know that's unrealistic in practice, but Goss is overtly injecting his politics into the agency.

The CIA isn't there to "support the President". They're supposed to gather and analyze data as impartially as possible. Sounds like Goss wants them to simply paint a picture of the World According to Bush, on command.

[Bushfire]

10. If you use Drudge as a source, pls let us know before we click

he is reliably unreliably as a credible source, and a spokesman for the GOP. I'll believe the Time article if, and when it prints (still being slightly skeptical of the AOL Time Warner rag). Should the article come out in Salon, The Progressive, etc. even better. Thanks!

[Q]

11. And here I thought that Bush*, Goss and the CIA...

...worked FOR the people.

[Blue_Tires]

12. am i the only one disgusted that

people in the NYT newsroom are tipping off drudge of all people??