Sycophant Spies (to CIA - Support Bush or else)

[papau]

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-cia21nov21.story
Sycophant Spies (to CIA - Support Bush or else)
It's sad that an administration in desperate need of unsullied intelligence would rather agents shut up and salute
By David Wise
David Wise writes frequently about intelligence and is the author of "Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America."

November 21, 2004

AT LEAST now it's in the open. According to an astounding internal memo slipped to the press last week, Porter J. Goss, the new head of the CIA, expects his spies to "support the administration."

From time to time over the years, critics have accused the CIA of "politicizing" intelligence. The memo the CIA director sent to the agency's employees leaves no doubt. It tells the spies to get on the team, get with the program. The document left the impression that in the second Bush administration, the White House will run the CIA.

This marks the first time — as far as the public knows at least — that a CIA director, in writing, has ordered the agency's spies and analysts to back the president. Why does it matter? Because a president, in theory, relies on the CIA to present facts neutrally, honestly and objectively so that he can base his policies on accurate information. The CIA's analysts are not supposed to be cheerleaders.

Yet the Goss memo, leaked to the New York Times last week, tells the CIA's employees that their job is to "support the administration and its policies in our work," adding: "As agency employees we do not identify with, support or champion opposition to the administration or its policies." <snip>


One leaked national intelligence estimate predicted instability — or civil war — in Iraq through 2005. Two documents leaked in September — and written in January 2003, two months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq — were more startling. One said that war would increase sympathy for terrorists throughout the Islamic world; another, right on the mark, warned of a possible insurgency after the war.
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[Fovea]

1. How long before

one of the old CIA operatives says 'cheney it' and goes on the rampage?
How much damage could a cell of intel boyz and grrls do, when they put their minds to taking down the RICO-PNAC axis of evil.