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Dumbya: Bush Administration SS Gives Anti-Bushies Das Boot
Posted on Sunday, November 14 @ 14:24:19 EST
Topic: G. Bushhttp://www.politrix.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1523
WASHINGTON -- The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President George W. Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media about the conduct of the Iraq war and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to knowledgeable sources. "The agency is being purged on instructions from the White House," said a former senior CIA official who maintains close ties to both the agency and to the White House. "Goss was given instructions ... to get rid of those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president's agenda."
CIA plans to purge its agency
Sources say White House has ordered new chief to eliminate officers who were disloyal to Bush
BY KNUT ROYCE
NEWSDAY WASHINGTON BUREAU
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One of the first casualties appears to be Stephen R. Kappes, deputy director of clandestine services, the CIA's most powerful division. The Washington Post reported yesterday that Kappes had tendered his resignation after a confrontation with Goss' chief of staff, Patrick Murray, but at the behest of the White House had agreed to delay his decision till tomorrow.
But the former senior CIA official said that the White House "doesn't want Steve Kappes to reconsider his resignation. That might be the spin they put on it, but they want him out." He said the job had already been offered to the former chief of the European Division who retired after a spat with then-CIA Director George Tenet.
Another recently retired top CIA official said he was unsure Kappes had "officially resigned, but I do know he was unhappy."
Without confirming or denying that the job offer had been made, a CIA spokesman asked Newsday to withhold naming the former officer because of his undercover role over the years. He said he had no comment about Goss' personnel plans, but he added that changes at the top are not unusual when new directors come in.
On Friday John E. McLaughlin, a 32-year veteran of the intelligence division who served as acting CIA director before Goss took over, announced that he was retiring. The spokesman said that the retirement had been planned and was unrelated to the Kappes resignation or to other morale problems inside the CIA.
It could not be learned yesterday if the White House had identified Kappes, a respected operations officer, as one of the officials "disloyal" to Bush.
"The president understands and appreciates the sacrifices made by the members of the intelligence community in the war against terrorism," said a White House official of the report that he was purging the CIA of "disloyal" officials. " . . . The suggestion [that he ordered a purge] is inaccurate."
But another former CIA official who retains good contacts within the agency said that Goss and his top aides, who served on his staff when Goss was chairman of the House intelligence committee, believe the agency had relied too much over the years on liaison work with foreign intelligence agencies and had not done enough to develop its own intelligence collection system.
"Goss is not a believer in liaison work," said this retired official. But, he said, the CIA's "best intelligence really comes from liaison work. The CIA is simply not going to develop the assets [agents and case officers] that would meet the intelligence requirements."
Tensions between the White House and the CIA have been the talk of the town for at least a year, especially as leaks about the mishandling of the Iraq war have dominated front pages.
Some of the most damaging leaks came from Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's Bin Laden unit, who wrote a book anonymously called "Imperial Hubris" that criticized what he said was the administration's lack of resolve in tracking down the al-Qaida chieftain and the reallocation of intelligence and military manpower from the war on terrorism to the war in Iraq. Scheuer announced Thursday that he was resigning from the agency.
Associated Topics White House And Goss Intend To Remake CIA Into PNAC True Believers
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/003262.html
As a follow up to my piece yesterday on Porter Goss raining destruction down upon the CIA, commenter Dry Fly points us to a piece in today’s Newsday which confirms that what Goss is doing is coming directly from the White House. Bush is ordering Goss and his henchmen to go through the Agency and get rid of disloyal “liberal” staff who don’t support the Bush agenda and who may have leaked material to the press in the past. In other words, Bush and Goss are doing exactly what both said Goss would not do during the confirmation process: turn the Agency into a political outfit supporting a political agenda instead of focusing on improving the collection of intelligence.
Commenter Avenger D-22 and others make a good point that the CIA’s recent intelligence failures make the Agency a bit overdue for the weeding out of poor analysts and superiors, and even I would admit that you don’t want an intelligence agency staffed with leakers and inept analysts. But Bush and Goss are intent it seems on diagnosing the problem to be one of insufficient loyalty to a now-faulty agenda, rather than one of building the Agency into an organization into a post-9/11, post-Cold War, tech savvy specialists who can interpret the most relevant information from human intelligence onsite.
And it is important to focus just a moment on why there were leaks, and why the Agency staff may now rue the day that they didn’t leak more in the days before the election: Bush and the White House, including Goss as chair of the House Intelligence Committee fingered the Agency for Iraq and 9/11, instead of looking into the mirror. The real problem was that the Bush White House ignored intelligence that didn’t conform to their agenda and world view, and instead made their own intelligence paramount, even when it was questioned by those experts who had reason to know better.
So now Goss and the White House are intent on institutionalizing the previous problem by purging “disloyal” analysts and superiors and replacing them with true believers of the PNAC cause, all under the smokescreen of immediately developing better human intelligence on the ground of our own and relying less on intelligence gathered from other services that have better relationships than we do. Instead of paying attention to what other intelligence services say who have networks in place already, under Goss and Bush we would develop our own sources immediately and listen to them, as if such networks can be bought and developed right away. Well, you get what you can pay for: a network of Ahmad Chalabis who share your worldview and have their own agenda, ever ready to use you for their aims. And remember, it was the other intelligence services like the Russians, the Mossad, and the Germans, who told us about the impending 9/11 attacks, and it was this White House that couldn’t be bothered.
Again, I hope the Democrats who voted for Goss are happy now.
Bush Plans to Purge the 'Disloyal' at CIAby Meteor Blades
Sun Nov 14th, 2004 at 13:11:39 PST
[Here is the CIA Diary posted by up2date, recommended, then promoted to the main page, then disappeared. Comments are not yet recovered]:
This is not freaking believable. When I first saw an article about purges in the intelligence community, I (naively) thought it was a purge of those responsible for intelligence failures. My mistake. The story which follows is not unique, only we are used to hearing about it after military coups in countries whose names many of us are not entirely sure how to pronounce. But this is happening right here. I am not one easily given to hyperbole, and I have avoided words like "junta" in the past, but does this sound like the behavior of a democratically elected leader of a free nation?WASHINGTON -- The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President George W. Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media about the conduct of the Iraq war and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to knowledgeable sources. "The agency is being purged on instructions from the White House," said a former senior CIA official who maintains close ties to both the agency and to the White House. "Goss was given instructions ... to get rid of those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president's agenda."Purging the intelligence community of those disloyal to the president? Purging liberal Democrats? Scared yet? You should be. Bush likes to operate in secret. Information is the enemy. Write your senator. Write your congressmen. Write all your newspapers. If Bush is intent on behaving this way, do not let him do it in the dark.
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