Date: July 11, 2006 5:49:28 PM PDT
Subject: dissidnet cia
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:17 am Post subject: ‘Dissident’ CIA faction
exposed by lawmaker
‘Dissident’ CIA faction exposed by lawmaker
Published: Tuesday, 11 July, 2006, 11:07 AM Doha Time
WASHINGTON: A high-ranking Republican lawmaker, in a letter made public on
Sunday, exposed what he sees as a dissident faction within the CIA that he
says “intentionally undermined” the policies of President George W Bush.
Rumours about the existence of such a group have circulated in the US
capital for a long time, but the comments by Representative Peter Hoekstra,
chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, mark the first time they were
confirmed by an official with intimate knowledge of the intelligence
community.
“In fact, I have been long concerned that a strong and well-positioned group
within the agency intentionally undermined the administration and its
policies,” Hoekstra wrote in a letter to Bush dated May 18.
The CIA declined to comment on the charge when queried by AFP.
The document has been obtained by The New York Times and posted on its
website in its entirety. Hoekstra confirmed its authenticity in a television
interview on Sunday, but did not elaborate on his concerns........
......He was quoted as saying the CIA was engaged in a “perverted war” over
the war in Iraq and resorted to “selective leaking” of information in order
to drive its point home.
He also insisted that Wilson had been sent to Niger by people within the CIA
without the knowledge of George Tenet, the then-director of central
intelligence, or the White House.
Hoekstra, whose letter was never intended for publication, said his argument
about the faction was supported by the Plame affair “as well as by the
string of unauthorised disclosures from an organisation that prides itself
with being able to keep secrets.”
In another first, the chairman went on to name some names.
They included Stephen Kappes, a former CIA director of operations, who is
now slated to become deputy director of the whole agency.
Hoekstra expressed concern that Kappes, who quit the agency in 2004 after
Porter Goss became its director, “may have been part of this group,” noting
that it was suspicious that Democrats on his committees “now publicly
support Mr Kappes’s return.”
A close associate of Kappes, Michael Sulick, was named in the letter as
another dissident suspect.
“Every day we suffer from the consequences of individuals promoting their
personal agendas,” Hoekstra complained about the situation at the CIA. “This
is clearly a place at which we do not want or need to be.”
Hoekstra publicly opposed the appointment of the current agency director,
General Michael Hayden, calling him “the wrong man at the wrong place at the
wrong time.” – AFP
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