LAT: Negroponte now controls CIA; next: DOD intel, Rumsfeld

[DeepModem Mom]

NEWS ANALYSIS
Negroponte Still Faces Uphill Battle to Change System
By Doyle McManus and Peter Spiegel, Times Staff Writer
May 5, 2006

WASHINGTON -- After a little more than a year in his newly created job, John D. Negroponte, the director of national intelligence, has won an initial battle to establish authority over the vast U.S. intelligence community -- Porter J. Goss, who resisted Negroponte's moves to limit the autonomy of the CIA, is gone.

But Negroponte faces a larger and much more difficult challenge: a struggle with Donald H. Rumsfeld's Department of Defense, which runs more than 80 percent of the nation's intelligence budget and is busy expanding its role even further.

Negroponte's job is to coordinate the work of 16 different intelligence agencies, including the CIA and the giant National Security Agency, which eavesdrops on international communications, as well as the Energy Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration. The post was created in 2005 in response to charges -- made most tellingly by the commission that investigated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 -- that the federal government's intelligence effort was uncoordinated and needed central direction.

When he took office in April 2005, Negroponte, a veteran diplomat, moved quickly to exert his authority over the CIA. He took over the job of giving President Bush his daily intelligence briefing, a task that once allowed CIA directors to bond with the presidents they served. He took a central role in briefing Congress on intelligence issues. He transferred some CIA officers to new joint intelligence centers. And when it appeared that Goss was not fully on board, officials said, Negroponte and his deputy, Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, quietly complained to the White House -- apparently contributing to Goss' decision to resign Friday....

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When Negroponte has sought to push through changes at the Defense Department, "They told him to take a flying leap," said one U.S. intelligence official who said he was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. "If you get the shove from DOD, where else can you go?"...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ciaassess6may06,0,1094951.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[babylonsister]

1. This is potentially scary. This guy could be the new

dimson warmonger. If he has the power to fire Goss, he has some power we don't even know about.

[Erika]

2. Believe me. he's a 100% Bushbot

and you will see mass defections from the CIA. He won't let anything come out of the CIA which doesn't support W's beliefs.

You will also see many more CIA employees coming out against the Bushbots.

[babylonsister]

3. So I can hope to see people bailing from the CIA?

Wow. I'm feeling really safe now. What the fuck happened to our country, besides a guy who failed at every damned thing he ever tried or touched in his entire fuckin' life? I'm so tired and annoyed. I have outrage overload and fatigue.:-(

[DeepModem Mom]

5. I feel the same way: helpless, and just about hopeless. nt

[Erika]

7. Yeah, W's extreme incompetence has hurt our country

FEMA is now a joke
TSA is now a joke
CIA is now a joke

One by one, he is dismantling the federal agencies and turning them into propganda arms of his administratation. They are all crumbling and failing.

[babylonsister]

8. That just about says it all, sadly. nt

[Us vs Them]

10. That was sort of their plan all along.

A government so small you could drown it in a bathtub.

*Bathtub courtesy of WalMart inc.

[Ghost Dog]

24. All power to the DoD? n/t

[Us vs Them]

4. They've stopped hiring non-Bushbots, too

So I hope a few of the veterans still hang on a little longer.

[Olney Blue]

21. It's a sad day when your political affiliation is grounds

for dismissal from civil service. The country should be more important than a party.

[emald]

6. goss out

sure are some large ones moving on the board. Just what is going on in the background here? Stupid sob bushit has screwed up everything he has ever touched and now under his control our government is flying apart at the seams. Nothing works. Corruption is everywhere. Up is down and black is white. Little fucking monkey is the anti christ. hope my meds take hold soon.

[babylonsister]

9. I hope your meds take hold soon also. It WILL get better! We're

working on it! :hug:

[JesterCS]

15. I know how you feel

My mother tells me i get too obsessed about whats going on in the US and that I need to just not worry about it because I cant do anything about it.

I get a bit irritated by that statement. I CAN do something about it. Only by spreading the truth around, educating as many people as I can. Most of my friends are in the 18-25 bracket. Trying to convince the youngest of them though proves to be a challenge. Most 18-19 year olds are too worried about their friends love lives and whatnot.

Don't give up hope though. There are bright stars even in the blackest of nights. Somehow we will pull through this.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

11. Negroponte will have no better luck controlling the CIA than....

...did Goss.

Additionally, Rumsfeld and his top layer of management is running into increasing resistance from the rank-and-file of the DIA and the various branches of the service. Rummy's working on borrowed time in the Pentagon...he doesn't know it any more than Goss did at the CIA.

[newspeak]

12. I think we need to go back and revisit

the Iran-Contra, BCCI scandal when we're talking about Negroponte. This is very scary, considering his actions in the past. By his previous actions, I don't believe he gives a fig about humanity, just agenda. This is why it was so important for the Clinton Administration to further investigate and expose what really went on with the Iran-Contra, death squads, and the relationship with BCCI and terrorism. We're in it big time now and it didn't have to be this way. Poindexter, Negroponte and others, all ex-felons, now tight in this administration. Very grave situation---pray for a miracle.

[malaise]

14. Very scary is an understatement

The most evil men on the planet are now in charge.

[DeepModem Mom]

16. You're right -- we don't hear a word about any of that from the press. nt

[Chimichurri]

19. This article made no mention of his shady past. According to this he's

a "veteran diplomat". A quite benign description of the death squad ringleader.

[DeepModem Mom]

20. You're right. It come close to making him the hero here. nt

[glitch]

22. Indeed we do. Clinton's biggest mistake was dropping prosecution of these

criminals.

[incapsulated]

13. So now the Death Squad maven is running everything?

Just. Great.

[converted_democrat]

17. K&R thanks for posting this.. This whole situation has got me on edge..

I just don't see anything good coming out of it..

[DeepModem Mom]

18. Scary as hell. nt

[0007]

23. Indeed

[Stinky The Clown]

25. Blackbridge is a VERY evil man with a VERY bad past

John Blackbridge (Negroponte) has his fingerprints on all sorts of international adventures, non of them good. Look back to the Reagan years and the Contra/Sandanista thing. Your hair will stand up.

This man is ruthless and extreme. On a good day he drinks warm blood for breakfast. On a bad day, he makes Jeff Dahmer look like a boy scout.

Il Dunce isn't telling him what to do. He's part of the power structure that tells Il Dunce what to do.

He's as much a diplomat as my ass is a rocket ship.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

26. The rank-and-file of the intel community is seeing to it that....

...the NeoCon Junta is removed from power. You can appoint whoever you want to whatever post, but if they don't have the cooperation of the people that work for them, they'll eventually become toast.