Winning the CIA.

[tsuki]

I wondered if Porter Goss' sudden departure from the CIA was not a ploy of the administration to settle dissatisfaction of members of that organization. A carrot and stick approach.

Now in an article of the WaPo, (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/08/AR2006050800311.html)

"Under the plan, Vice Adm. Albert M. Calland III would be replaced as deputy director by retired CIA official Stephen R. Kappes, who quit in November 2004 in a dispute with then-Director Porter J. Goss.

The move was seen as a direct repudiation of Goss's leadership and as an olive branch to CIA veterans disaffected by his 18-month tenure, during which many other senior officials followed Kappes out the door. The White House was so eager to get out the news of Kappes's likely appointment that it was announced from the lectern in the briefing room, even though the Senate must confirm Hayden and Kappes has not yet been officially nominated.

Other Goss lieutenants at the agency also appear to be on the way out, following Goss, who resigned Friday. Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, brought in by Goss as the agency's executive director, announced to agency staff in an e-mail yesterday that he plans to resign as well. The FBI said it is investigating whether Foggo steered contracts to a friend, contractor Brent R. Wilkes. The CIA confirmed last week that Foggo attended private poker games with Wilkes at a Washington hotel."

If this 60 year old grandma can see through this sh*t, what does that say about the Admin?

[don954]

1. I wonder, when we win the govt back in 08,

will we have a flood of carrier CIA men looking to get their jobs back? I hope so, the brain drain is bad for our intelligence agencies.