Goss who was doing what needed to be done in the CIA, firing lots of people, was replaced because he clashed with a career Diplomat who was for some bizarre reason the head of all of our intelligence agencies. Negroponte's qualifications for running the most crucial arm of our government during the most brutal war fought on our homeland since the Civil War is his service as an Ambassador to the UN. The absurdity of this is completely aside from the absurdity of creating an entirely new bureaucracy to add yet one more layer of incompetency to our intelligence arm.

Goss was cleaning a house that very much needed cleaning and ran afoul of Bureaucrat Negroponte's desire to create a fiefdom for himself. Be afraid.

For those liberals who want a kinder gentler CIA. Looks like you will be getting what you want.

To those of us who believed that the CIA was supposed to win wars and prevent attacks like 9/11 no matter the tactics, duck. We are being left open to our enemy by a bunch of politicians who wouldn't know reality if it bent them over the kitchen table and spanked them. The CIA isn't supposed to be nice. The CIA is supposed to be brutal, scary, secret, vicious and above all its supposed to win. 9/11 doesn't count as a win, it stands as the greatest failure in intelligence history and enough of a reason to disband the entire agency. Rehiring all those who passed muster into an entirely new agency.

The President reels from one bad decision to another. What is tremendously worrying is whether the Republican party can bring someone to the forefront of the next election who can lead the country effectively or whether we will get a Bush clone.

Goss Forced Out as CIA Director; Gen. Hayden Is Likely Successor Bush Iraq Porter Goss CIA War on Terror negroponte

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