Hearing that W thinks the CIA is a “hotbed of liberals” reminds me of my Dad calling the New York Times a right-wing newspaper. Of course, W may be right, I wouldn’t know.
INTEL DUMP -
CIA home to “hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president’s agenda”
White House begins a purge of disloyal officers in the top ranks of the CIA’s clandestine and intelligence directorates
Newsday carries this disturbing report today on a “purge” of the CIA that has been ordered by the White House. The purge is not aimed at making the CIA more effective or efficient, or at making the nation safer. No, according to Newsday, the purge is aimed at making the CIA more loyal, and less likely to leak damaging information about the Bush administration’s conduct of the war on terrorism.
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Call it a counter-purge… Clinton flushed all the guys with an “80s mindset”, who knew what they were doing. Well, who came as close to knowing what they were doing as the CIA does, anyway. I guess the goal is to make them loyal to their mission more than to Bush specifically.