Phila.'s FBI chief, part of CIA-leak case, leaving

[kpete]

Posted on Thu, Feb. 16, 2006

Phila.'s FBI chief, part of CIA-leak case, leaving

John C. Eckenrode was the lead investigator in probing the '03 disclosure of Valerie Plame's name.
By John Shiffman
Inquirer Staff Writer

The senior FBI agent in Philadelphia, who is also lead investigator in the CIA-leak case, will retire at the end of the month, officials said yesterday.

John C. Eckenrode, special agent in charge, will leave the FBI in early March, concluding a 32-year career with the bureau. He will become a director of forensic support services for the consulting firm KPMG.
Eckenrode declined yesterday to be interviewed, a spokeswoman said.

Though he ran the nation's ninth-largest FBI division, Eckenrode is best known as the chief investigator for Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who is probing the 2003 leak of then-CIA employee Valerie Plame's name by Bush administration officials to journalists. The leak was allegedly made to discredit her husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who had written a newspaper column that accused Bush of exaggerating Iraq's threat.

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/pennsylvania/13882747.htm

[LiberalEsto]

1. Where will his new office be?

Somewhere in Antarctica?

[applegrove]

2. Yup. The neocons want all the COMPETENT PEOPLE out of government.

Because as corporations they want to paint a picture that governance is incompetent. They have to work long and hard to create the situation where their "myths" will be true.

"Government is inefficient". It has taken years of full throttle insults and shake-ups and incompetent leadership to start to break it all up. To depress professional public servant class so much that they ponder leaving. UN & World Bank too.

Neocons live in a world where the great information (competent people) are all on their side. And government, the population, ngos, & multilateral groups are empty of talent.

Thank god for Nov 2006. Some of this will be stopped. Dems can verify the talent of any asshole put in charge of some agency (with the purpose of diminishing it).

Bush WH dropped the ball on Katrina because they meant to. Destruction and using the opportunity withing crisis - is par for the course.