GOSS URGES CIA EMPLOYEES TO SUPPORT BUSH POLICIES IN MEMO [drudge]

[tuvor]

GOSS URGES CIA EMPLOYEES TO SUPPORT BUSH POLICIES IN MEMO
Tue Nov 16 2004 21:18:43 ET

Porter Goss, the new intelligence chief, has told Central Intelligence Agency employees that their job is to "support the administration and its policies in our work," a copy of the internal memorandum shows.

The NEW YORK TIMES is planning to lead Wednesday's paper with the memo, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE.

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"As agency employees we do not identify with, support or champion opposition to the administration or its policies," Goss said in the memorandum, which was circulated late on Monday. He said in the document that he was seeking "to clarify beyond doubt the rules of the road."

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash7.htm

[DireStrike]

1. Critical thinking? Nah we don't need that.

[tsuki]

2. That's intelligent.

[Lostnote03]

DO AS WE SAY-NOT WHAT WE DO!!!!!

............................

[DRoseDARs]

3. we don't identify w/, support or champion opposition to the administration

Very good, Goss, at least you understand half of it. The other half is: "We also do not identify with, support or champion positions held by the administration. We gather intelligence, review the facts, and make assesments devoid of political partisanship or hackery."

[rodeodance]

19. all bow to King George!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Oh. I thought the job of the CIA was to gather intelligence.

You know, collect evidence, facts, that kind of stuff. Information that can protect us from attacks from bad guys.

Silly me for thinking these things were important, when the real function of the CIA turns out to be to cover the Bush Regime's ass. Guess Shrub learned a lot from his buddy Vlad "The Impaler" Putin, the old KGB guy. Is the CIA now our KGB?

[DS1]

5. But it's Drudge

We're not allowed to believe anything Drudge says :7

[tuvor]

9. Guess we'll wait for tomorrow's NYT.

You could consider this a potential heads-up.

I know it's drudge.
:eyes:

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

22. Here's the New York Times link

New C.I.A. Chief Tells Workers to Back Administration Policies

[UCLA Dem]

6. disgusting.

[IndianaGreen]

7. Their job is to defend and uphold the Constitution, not a political party

Goss is trying to turn the CIA into a political apparatus of the White House, pretty much in the same way the KGB was the enforcement arm of the Kremlin.

This is really bad precedent.

Who voted for the Goss nomination???????

[oldhat]

8. Clams

[bleever]

13. Doesn't the Carpenter resemble Rummy, while the Walrus

is not hard find Dick Cheney in either.

[bleever]

10. Seriously, seriously, scary. Trying to wrap my mind around what

karmic forces come to bear against such a corruption of the very nature of intelligence's role in national security.

But it is in line with nominating as Security of State a person who, though skilled and charming, filled the place of National Security Adviser with something more like Chief Apologist or Secretary of Talking Points.

Get out your umbrellas, 'cus a hard rain's gonna fall.

[VegasWolf]

11. God has given awol all the answers, its the CIA's job to validate

what god has told bush. If god wanted the CIA's opinion
he would have asked for it.

[NNN0LHI]

12. And most importantly whatever you do leave bin Laden alone!

He is too valuable running free making videos.

Don

[Kahuna]

14. I wonder if the mainstream media is sorry and/or scared yet, that they..

enabled this fascist regime? What would it take for them to realize the monster they created? Unbelievable.

[Roland99]

15. Two Words: Christian Reconstructionists....

They are reconstructing our government to fit a one-party model.

[LiberteToujours]

16. I never would have believed...

That it was possible for a country to fall apart this quickly. This is sick, just disgusting.

[Oilwellian]

17. What an idiot for putting it in writing

Or, are they just that brazen? What exactly ARE those Bush policies the CIA is to support?

[rodeodance]

28. any and all policies!!

[LynnTheDem]

18. They did...that's why we invaded Iraq for NO WMD.

Rightwingers really are incredibly stupid and totally unable to learn.

[sakabatou]

20. "Those that do not follow the administration...

shall be condemed as a heretic and a witch and be burned at the stake!"

[grasswire]

21. fellow frogs?

I believe the water in our pot has reached "simmer." It isn't far from "simmer" to "boil."

I'm on my knees begging higher powers to make the recount work.

[xchrom]

23. ok america -- is this making you happy?

the only word i can think of while reading this is:
incestuous.

i think we live in incredibly baroque times.

[llmart]

24. Two words.....

Hitler's Germany

[scarface2004]

25. jesus demands...

all worship the bush!!

[snippy]

26. Party over patriotism. How very republican. n/t

[democracy eh]

27. GROUPTHINK will not make anyone safer

arrrgghhhhh

especially in national inteligence, a monoculture of Yes men will be DISASTEROUS!!!!

[Moderator]

29. The actual article

that Drudge is writing about is here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x996755

Let's not give Drudge any more hits.

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