Remember - the WH threatened CIA agents who talk

[Avalux]

Is this the CIA's way of saying "Oh no you didn't!"?

It's just not very smart to publicly threaten CIA agents with punishment, especially if the one doing the threatening is the little emperor without any clothes, and their boss is one of his cronies who swaggered in there with orders to weed out the 'disloyal'.

They have to have dirt on the guy for him to step down so quickly. This is gonna get good, I think. :hi:

[Joe for Clark]

1. I think you might have something -

Bet he pissed off a lot of CIA operatives - I can't even imagine having those kind of enemies.

And I really doubt his leaving is just about a prostitution scandal.

Personally, I think some of our CIA and ex-CIA people have shown a lot of guts, lately. And I think we only see a small glimmer of whats really going on. At least I hope so.

Joe

[Peace Patriot]

2. Yup, this is deeper than Hookergate. Goss was installed to FINISH the

job that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Libby, Rove and the White House Iraq Group did on Valerie Plame and the entire CIA WMD counter-proliferation network that she headed, that is, to purge the CIA of all the honest professionals who think that it is their job to prevent war, not manufacture it.

You gotta wonder, though, about a CIA Director who would be this stupid (to get caught with his pants down). Amazing.

:wow:

[Avalux]

3. I'd say he was probably overconfident -

Goss went into the CIA (Bush has my back!!) and with that attitude he was bound to get hosed. Can't wait to see who the next sacrificial lamb will be. :popcorn:

Oh - and there's something to be said about the CIA retirees who have been so vocal lately....they may leave the agency, but they never really leave; Goss may have some baggage from his days as an agent during the Cold War.

[Recursion]

4. GOP spin

part of the GOP spin is that the CIA is a bunch of bumbling morons who can't get their intel straight. Like most of what they've said for the past decade, this is a lie. The CIA is very, very good at what it does: namely, ferreting out information people want to keep secret (and the NSA is even better, and they're none too happy with W's crew either).

Maybe they started to believe their own rhetoric and thought that a gov't run org like the CIA couldn't possibly succeed at snooping on them...

[Avalux]

5. Then that was a fatal error -

You're right, the CIA is very good at what it does, and the The WH may be starting to realize they shouldn't have fucked with them and used them as a scapegoat for their illegal war.

[Efilroft Sul]

6. Sexual hubris: Pride goeth before the fall of pants.

[Disturbed]

7. CIA -Scapegoat for no WMD in Iraq

CIA -Scapegoat for no WMD in Iraq

The Bush Regime were planning upon invading Iraq before the 911 Attacks. The plan needed a solid
reason. WMDs in Iraq was decided upon to be that reason. The 911 Attacks.provided the motivation for the Invasion of Iraq. CIA Intell Reports were cherry picked, taken to The Office of Special Plans and crafted for the cause. Ex. CIA Director G. Tenet went along with the scheme. When the Iraqi Invasion was completed an Insurgency that was ignored by Rumfailed and the Generals rose up which prolonged the take over of Iraq bu the US and the UK. As it gradually became obvious that Iraq had no WMDs. the Bush Regime laid that failure of Intell on the CIA. The CIA was expected to shoulder that blame.

The Rank and File and some former CIA members objected to this.