White House approves plan to bolster CIA (Goss to oversee reform)

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has approved a plan to install
CIA Director Porter Goss as the manager of traditional spying operations across the 15-agency intelligence community, officials said on Wednesday.

Goss, who took over the CIA just over a year ago after chairing the House of Representatives intelligence panel, would receive the title of "national HUMINT manager" under a plan that experts say could restore some of the CIA's lost prestige as the lead agency in the intelligence community.

HUMINT is bureaucratic parlance for human intelligence, or traditional espionage by operatives overseas.

Officials, who asked not to be identified because the plan has not been formally announced, said U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte will charge Goss with coordinating agencies involved in human intelligence and setting new common standards for clandestine operations.

[aquart]

1. Riiiiiiiight.

That's all the information extracted by torture, right?

[goforit]

2. Interesting, Didn't USA today just come to say CIA was right on Iraq?

Hmmmmm......

Wonder why Bush is playing w/ the CIA all of a sudden?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. Scum like Porter Goss should not be allowed

to be in positions of authority at all, and especially not in a CIA turned loose.