US intelligence shakeup prompts concerns

[struggle4progress]

ISN SECURITY WATCH (14/01/06) - A member of the powerful US Senate intelligence committee is calling for an inquiry into the "early removal" of the head of the intelligence agency that interprets satellite photos and draws maps for the US military.

James Clapper, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is to leave 13 June, three months earlier than he had wanted, David Burpee, the agency's head of public affairs, confirmed to ISN Security Watch ...

In a letter to the committee's chairman, Republican Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, Mikulski wrote that she was "troubled by reports that Secretary Rumsfeld's decision was in retaliation for Clapper's 2004 testimony to the Congress regarding NGA's relationship to the Department of Defense" ...

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=14346

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[november3rd]

1. Rumsfeld's Revenge

The Bush Administration is far more interested in punishing what it considers disloyalty than rewarding positive behavior. This is why so little of what they do is beneficial to the US as a whole and to posterity. They are focused on preserving their stranglehold on government, not on GOVERNING.

Can they continue to force out the best and brightest for putting quality and brains above loyalty and threats? If they read their history they would know that the unjust always meet their demise, by fate itself, if not by the speedy hand of the righteous.

Those who would spy illegally, detain illegally, torture illegally and make war unjustly should worry--as the rest of us do--about the justice of God and the consequences of wrongdoing and breach of oath and trust.

[madeline_con]

2. IOW, when are they going to implode? n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

3. K&R