Purge of the Gosslings(Remember the firing of Porter Goss?)

[LiviaOlivia]

July 19, 2006
Purge of the Gosslings
by emptywheel
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2006/07/purge_of_the_go.html#more

I'm still trying to make sense of the factional interests behind the Goss firing. But it looks like I may be too late. Ken Silverstein reports they're destroying the evidence--or at least purging the ranks.

A similar (if much less bloody) purge is now underway at the CIA, where new director Michael Hayden is systematically seeking to eliminate any evidence that his predecessor—Porter Goss, whose stewardship is widely considered to have been a disaster—ever ran the agency.

By now, most of the people Goss brought in to senior positions—a group known derisively as the Gosslings—are long gone. That includes Goss's hatchet man, chief of staff Patrick Murray, as well as several aides whose names have surfaced in connection with the Duke Cunningham scandal—most notably Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, the agency's former executive director. (Foggo's end came soon after FBI agents raided his office and home two months ago.)

It appears Cheney lost his mouthpiece, in the form of his own former spokesperson Jennifer Millerwise Dyck serving as CIA spokesperson. And the one competent Gossling, Greg Kostiw, is out now too.

More significantly, I'm told that Michael Kostiw, senior adviser to Goss, is also being pushed out. Kostiw was the only Gossling that was thought to have performed well, and a number of senior agency officials urged Hayden to keep him on. However, the source told me, Kostiw ran afoul of Hayden’s boss, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte. It appears that Kostiw's grim assessment of the situation in Iraq, where he traveled regularly over the past several years, displeased Negroponte, who “wasn't happy with his criticism,” said the source. “He said wasn't being supportive enough of the policy.”

In the end, though, it was Kostiw's association with Goss that proved fatal.

So let's see. Taking what we can infer from Hoekstra's recent bitching, in which he wants to try those who reveal our illegal rendition programs as Al Qaeda sympathizers. And this, which suggests that Negroponte will fire anyone who admits what anyone who can read already understands--that Iraq is FUBAR. It seems the one thing consistent here is an absolute prohibition on the truth.

~snip~

[Joanne98]

1. I don't trust HAYDEN. He's a Xistian NAZI!

[lapfog_1]

2. All of this reads like something from Nazi Germany

or Stalinist Russia.

All of the political intrigue and infighting, someone high up is out, so must all of the hangers on and yes people be removed too. Not to mention replaced with the a new group of ass kissing idiots.

"heckofajob brownie" illustrates this perfectly. Man was placed into a high position because he kissed the right butt at the right time, not because he was even competent as what he was going to be in charge of.

[sutz12]

3. This is stage two....

Goss was brought in to purge the "disloyal" officers, i.e. anybody remotely Democratic leaning, regardless of competence.

Once we purge the ones brought in by the first purge, we'll be set with the best Republican intelligence agency money can buy.

p.s. Sorry about that "Republican intelligence" oxymoron, there. :shrug:

[LiviaOlivia]

4. LOL

yes indeed


I shouldn't laugh but I'm almost shell-shocked at BushCo's contempt for America.