Sunday, November 14, 2004
The Purging of the CIA
Bush and crew want one party rule, no dissent and everyone who doesn't agree gets purged or fired.
If you rememebr the build up to war we heard all sorts of leaks from the CIA about how this administration was being dishonest, from specific sources we learned that Saddam wasn't a threat, there were no nukes, Chalabi was not to be trusted nor any of his fellow Iraqi council members.
What if George Bush decided to go after Iran or Syria and we don't have those honest people in there?
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Bush and crew want one party rule, no dissent and everyone who doesn't agree gets purged or fired.
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."
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."
If you rememebr the build up to war we heard all sorts of leaks from the CIA about how this administration was being dishonest, from specific sources we learned that Saddam wasn't a threat, there were no nukes, Chalabi was not to be trusted nor any of his fellow Iraqi council members.
What if George Bush decided to go after Iran or Syria and we don't have those honest people in there?
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