Telegraph | News | Spies rise up against CIA chief — Rogue Agency? Rogue because they refused to produce bogus reports? Or what exactly?
“There’s no clear direction from Goss,” a former official complained to the New York Times.
Four former deputy directors of operations reportedly warned Mr Goss of a possible in-house rebellion.
Mr Goss’s number two, John McLaughlin, resigned last week and Stephen Kappes, the head of espionage, was said to be clearing his office over the weekend.
Senator John McCain backed his Republican colleague last night, praising Mr Goss’s campaign to improve the CIA’s performance against terrorism and denouncing the agency as in need of reform.
“This kind of shake-up is absolutely necessary,” the influential Arizona congressman said.
“This is a dysfunctional agency and in some ways a rogue agency.”
According to New York Newsday, it appears Goss is purging the agency of anyone disloyal to Bush. Exactly what people were afraid of.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uscia1114,0,707331.story?coll=ny-top-headlines
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.”
If people thought the situation was bad before, with the creation of side groups by various neo-cons in the administration to “stove-pipe” intelligence, imagine what it will be like when the CIA is doing the same thing.