Chas W. Freeman is a former assistant secretary of defense and U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia under the first President Bush. “What Goss is doing is an effort that originated outside the agency to impose a vision on it that its analysts and operatives reject as simply not based on reality,” he says. “It’s totalitarian. We are going to end up with an agency that is more right-wing, more conformist, and less prone to produce people with original views and dissenters.”
...on goss purging the cia:
"He served on the HPSCI for eight years," says Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. "What the fuck was he doing for the last seven years?"
although i totally respect the man, mcgovern cracks me up - can't help but think of george carlin when i watch/listen to him. there's another attribution in the article that's probably also his
Many of those who remain inside the CIA are distraught, convinced that their work is wasted on an administration that doesn’t want to hear the truth. "How do you think they feel?" asked one recently retired CIA officer with three decades of experience. "They’re watching a fucking idiotic policy, run by idiots, unfold right before their eyes!"
what really adds to it is that mcgovern helped create the coalition "veteran intelligence professionals for sanity" and, as co-director of the servant leadership school, the department Ray heads at the School deals with the biblical injunction to "speak truth to power"
fucking-a, ray. give 'em hell. -b real
thanks to b, and b real, over at MOA for this interesting post..
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