The RW Take on the "Coup" at the CIA

[AnnInLa]

(I found this kinda intersting....you might, too.)


http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjJlY2ZhNzZkNThhODg0YTVjNTk0MzkxMWU5ZDQ2YjE=


The reasons for Porter Goss’s abrupt departure as CIA director are shrouded in mystery. But its effect is not. It gives the impression that there has been a coup by the CIA insiders who have waged a covert policy war against the Bush administration for five years. The White House must act quickly to correct the impression that the renegades have won.

The CIA is supposed to work for the president. It was created in 1948 to be the president’s civilian, non-partisan, non-policy intelligence arm. Its job is to provide an accurate picture of facts and trends so that decision makers can formulate good policy. Too often the agency has performed that job miserably, the greatest example being its gargantuan miscalculations about the Soviet Union. In retrospect, this is perhaps unsurprising. The CIA has always had a leftist bent, well represented in its upper echelons even under directors of staunchly anti-Communist and pro-national-security orientation.

snip

During the Bush presidency, however, the agency has not been content with subtly pushing its own agenda while underperforming its nominal mission. It has run amok. In fact, it worked assiduously—though unsuccessfully—to depose the administration in the 2004 election, and since then has continued brazenly undermining Bush’s foreign policy.

snip Plame/Wilson

Most damaging of all, however, has been the CIA’s incorrigible leaking. Again and again, it has demonstrated that it is more dedicated to harming the Bush administration’s war effort than to protecting its own secret activities. On the eve of the 2004 presidential debates, for example, the CIA selectively leaked a report claiming that it had warned in early 2003 that a joint Baathist-jihadist insurgency would follow a U.S. invasion of Iraq. The report—which turned out not to have said much of anything about an insurgency, and to have been wrong in its core prognostications—was written by Paul Pillar, who has been happy to rip the Bush administration in the press, identifying himself as “a top national intelligence officer.”

more at above link

[Marr]

1. The liberal CIA tricked Bush into invading Iraq!!!

:crazy:

[lvx35]

2. Its that "liberal reality" again.

Causing CIA agents to report about it. Things like the failure of the Iraq war can't actually be happening, since Bush says it can't. So the best thing for the CIA is just to appoint a comittee to filter out everything Bush doesn't want to hear. :sarcasm:

[Old and In the Way]

3. Yes, all of our institutions are broken. The only thing working properly

in Washington is Bush. The National Review, drinking deep from the fountain of Bush brand kool-aid.

[me b zola]

4. How do they do that?

How do repubs manage to take one, sometimes two facts and surround them by a combination of comedy, scary statements, & horseshit?

The only truthful statements that I found in the OP are:

1) Yes, there is an appearence that there has been a coup at the CIA :)

2) Yes, the CIA is supposed to be non-partisan, non-policy making.

Might I add that the very reason that there may have been a coup at the CIA is BECAUSE bush* has used the agency as a partisan tool to push his policies. So how does bush* address this? He replaces one major political hack with another larger political hack. Yes, irony is lost on freepers.



The rest of the comedy & manuer I will leave to others to rage on about.