I have personally had it with the Republicans scapegoating the CIA in order to cover Bush's abysmal foreign policy failures. Bush has been putting pressure on the CIA for years to "see things" his way, and now he's even purging the CIA of people who don't interpret the intelligence the way he wants. But after all of this, we're to believe that it's the CIA's fault that Bush went into Iraq in search of WMD?
Hello - Bush is PURGING the CIA of people who don't see things his way. That means he wants an organization that doesn't objectively analyze the facts, but rather, one that subjectively will rubber stamp anything Bush wants to do. It is therefore outright laughable for Republicans to blame the CIA for in essence doing earlier what Bush wants them to do now - namely, skew intelligence in a way that favors the president.
To any CIA officers, or friends thereof, out there. I've served with you folks in previous jobs, and you're good people. Please let us know, privately and anonymously if you must, ANYTHING that we the blogging community can do to help. You folks are expert at having anonymous, off-the-record, and untraceble conversations. If there is any message you'd like to get out to the public, collectively we have a massive audience numbering in the millions of daily readers, we are VERY much here for you. Let us know. JOHN
From AP:
"One thing that has become abundantly clear if it wasn't already: this is a dysfunctional agency and in some ways a rogue agency," McCain said on ABC's "This Week."
He said the kind of shake-up that has been widely reported as causing dissent within the ranks of the CIA is absolutely necessary.
"Porter Goss is on the right track," McCain said. "He is being savaged by these people that want the status quo, and the status quo is not satisfactory."
Added Sen. Lindsey Graham: "Somebody needs to deal with the dynamic that led to us being so wrong" about Iraq. "If you have to hurt some feelings, so be it."
