Joanna
Dwayne Monroe wrote:
> So it seems the Bush administration is sweeping non-believers (in, I
> guess we can say, the Bush agenda) out of the Central Intelligence
> Agency and onto the street.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> .d.
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>
> .....
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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.
>
>
> [...]
>
>
> full at -
>
> <http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uscia1114,0,707331.story?coll=ny-top-headlines
> >
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