Americans are, generally speaking, and in spite of official mythology about cowboy rebelliousness, an obedient, 'chain of command' loving people (one of the results of our accommodation to life in an advanced capitalist world) so nothing may come of this purge except bruised feelings and badly written books.
Still, there's a lot of knowledge being turned out and a lot of anger being generated - the Bushanistas excel at making enemies, they seem to look for them with the dedication Ahab brought to bringing that great whale low - so interesting things may happen as a result of this.
I have a fantasy - no, not the one involving chocolate sauce and Britney Spears - a fantasy that these newly master less intelligence samurai, these 'ronin', will create all sorts of clandestine trouble for our reckless masters.
Of course, even if that were to happen, it probably wouldn't benefit any of us but stranger things have unfolded.
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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 WASHINGTON BUREAU
November 14, 2004
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."
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.
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