Turmoil at CIA As Goss Lays Down the Law

[seriousstan]

WASHINGTON - When former CIA (news - web sites) Director George Tenet said his farewells at a two-hour ceremony this summer, a deputy noted that 40 percent of the agency's staff had worked for just one chief.

It was a symbol of Tenet's endurance, seven years on the job, the second longest tenure of a director. It also was a mark of agency's growth during a hiring spree that began in 1998 and accelerated after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.


With Tenet's successor, former Rep. Porter Goss (news, bio, voting record), in charge and making changes, one of the longer periods of leadership stability in the CIA's 57-year history is ending.


In an e-mail this month, Goss told employees of his plans for new procedures, organization and senior personnel. He reminded them that the CIA is a "secret agency," indirectly addressing media leaks widely believed to have angered the White House. Goss also said he intends to clarify "beyond doubt the rules of the road."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20041127/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_transition

[tridim]

1. All this from a guy who said he's unqualified for the job

Oy...

[Snotcicles]

15. But amply qualified to take *'s marching orders. n/t

[cavanaghjam]

2. Goss lays down the law

and picks up the axe.

[peacetalksforall]

3. Can't wait for the book. Anyone have the photo of him c 1963?

[notadmblnd]

5. you mean this one?

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. The Bush Administration is so determined to block leaks that I

can only speculate what they would have done to Ken Starr if they had to deal with some like him.

[poppet]

6. This maight be off-topic but

whatever happened to the CIA report on 9/11? I have asked several times in different threads but get no response.

What ever happened to this report? Is it still being withheld? I never heard any more about it.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102004V.shtml

Here is an excerpt from the pre-election news article:

The 9/11 Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket
By Robert Scheer
The Los Angeles Times

Tuesday 19 October 2004

The agency is withholding a damning report that points at senior officials.
It is shocking: The Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election, and this one names names. Although the report by the inspector general's office of the CIA was completed in June, it has not been made available to the congressional intelligence committees that mandated the study almost two years ago.

"It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a satisfactory manner before 9/11 is being suppressed," an intelligence official who has read the report told me, adding that "the report is potentially very embarrassing for the administration, because it makes it look like they weren't interested in terrorism before 9/11, or in holding people in the government responsible afterward."

When I asked about the report, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice), ranking Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, said she and committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) sent a letter 14 days ago asking for it to be delivered. "We believe that the CIA has been told not to distribute the report," she said. "We are very concerned."


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[troubleinwinter]

11. I keep asking the SAME thing!!!!

[0007]

14. Good question, its buried baby its buried

:nopity:

[lovuian]

7. I would like to remind Goss Absolute Power corrupts Absolutely

A email and a Memo isn't going to even phase these people!!!

and people leaving in droves is just going to make Goss weaker!!!

Obviously making Tenet the fall guy and the CIA was not very smart on Bush's part!!! I contend it was a fatal mistake!!! Time will tell!!!!!!!

[Barrett808]

8. I have to think the Agency, as an institution, will not take this...

...sitting down.

[Dogmudgeon]

9. Too late!

There has already been a power struggle, and the CIA lost.

Porter Goss was given the job of executing the ringleaders and flogging the general inmate population.

However, some good may come out of it -- it will prove that the CIA is not the all-powerful behemoth that many journalists and conspiracy-mongers think it is.

--p!

[tom_paine]

13. Exactly. CIA is now firmly under Imperial Control

One-Party agencies for a One-Party State, eh? Isn;t THAT the rationale, stripped of it's spin, for the most recent Stalinist Purge.

Hey, at least our CIA guys get to live (for how long, though...I wonder how many of them will be Meeting With Accidents once the furr dies down), so we still got THAT over the Soviet Union.

Imperial Amerika is a Kinder and Gentler Tyranny.

[peacetalksforall]

10. Ever get the feeling that we are dealing with the most immature

and revenge determined high schooler from our collective past? The manipulator and plotter par excellence?

[Jose Diablo]

12. Well, the last guy to lay the law on the CIA was Carter

Whats the odds Bush will come out of this with his ass still bolted on?