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Re: Interesting article about the CIA
From: David Stein <david.r.stein () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:45:53 -0500
So I guess my question is: Is this a cry for help from Democratic backers in Congress, or is it a shot across the bow?
I think that it's a cry for the press to help them--which they are, but that isn't going to be nearly enough to save them. The few remaining Democrats won't get involved, they have their own problems. The top level management at CIA are screwed. They decided to bet the farm on Kerry, and their political forecasting was just as good as all their other recent work. Now it's payback time for the White House, and those political boys may not be the sharpest tools in the shed but they understand getting stabbed in the back and they understand about getting revenge. Of course, just like in any big business the worker-bees for the most part care couldn't care less who sits in the corner offices. All this turmoil talk is typical of executives everywhere who think that no work gets done except for the loyalty and reverence "their" employees have for them. Actually I'm sure that senior executives one level down are already hoping that they'll get to climb another rung up the greasy pole and get better offices and parking spaces, and people further down are doing their jobs and complaining about the Redskins as usual on a Monday morning. I think it's very funny--a sort of real-life Mafia movie. The Director of Operations sent a message to Porter Goss by taking out his nominee for Executive Director by leaking a 20-year-old shoplifting incident from his personnel file. So Goss's enforcer told the Director of Counter-intelligence (who keeps the files and who probably leaked the information himself at the DO's request) that if any more of Goss's nominees woke up with a knife sticking from between their ribs, he'd hold the Director of CI personally responsible. This led the Director of CI to get his family head, the DO, to go in and confront Goss and threaten to go to the mattresses by orchestrating mass resignations. Accounts differ as to who backed down (if anyone) after that. I would see the press reporting as a desperate cry for help from a bunch of self-important bunglers who can't imagine that CIA could continue without them, and who are beginning to realize that they overplayed their hand. Something like the baseball umpires did a few years ago. They should have tried kissing Goss' butt and pleading for mercy, that might just have saved them. We'll know in a few days if the DO is forced out. Sure is fun! David P.S. A side issue, but the Valerie Plame leak was entirely CIA's fault--they had no business telling anyone at the White House the name of an undercover agent. It is well known that politicians (and their staffs) will blab anything to anyone, that is why there are supposed to be professionals running the business and keeping stuff that the politicos don't absolutely need to know out of their heads. -- David Stein david.r.stein () gmail com _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com https://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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