Sorry, it has been several weeks – family was under the weather. Anyway, I have wanted to throw an observation or two out here about the replacement of Porter J. Goss with General Michael V. Hayden as head of the C.I.A. Needless to say that Goss’ oust was unexpected. Frankly, I am absolutely shocked. Let me explain why. You see, I lived and breathed amongst bureaucrats for 18 years in D.C. (think liberal infested). As such, you come to understand that the CIA, like most organizations, is split into two groups – operations (guys on the street) and analysts (pointy-headed desk jockeys). Operations is composed of the spies, para-military operations, etc. Essentially, they are the brass tacks of the agency. Analysts, on the other hand, are educated political scientists, engineers, psychologists and sociologists who scrutinize security concerns from a 30,000 foot view. Clinton decimated operations, it was too “sticky” and politically “tough”, he figured, to maintain people of the ground gathering intelligence in other sovereign, “Lincoln Bedroom donating” countries. So, the agency revamped how it operated. They swelled their analyst departments and attempted to provide intelligence 10,000 miles away from the nearest threat. Needless to say, it didn’t work. Can anyone say 9/11? We didn’t have anyone on the ground; no one infiltrated the infamous “Arab Street.” We attempted to “connect the dots,” but it just didn’t pan out. So, Bush has been attempting to realign the agency so that it reflects its glory days of the Reagan Administration – when operations ruled and the Iron Curtain was brought down in large part by an awesome foreign intelligence capability. Clinton, the coward, destroyed it. Bush, an honorable man but no ideologue, is trying to build it back. Yet, it has been slow going. You see, analysts are bureaucrats. Bureaucrats love big government. Bureaucrats are mostly flaming liberals – I mean flamin’!!! Thus, 50+% of the CIA loathes Bush. As such, Bush has gotten nothing but resistance. In fact, in response he often gets “leaks” from the agency to the media about secret programs his administration is running. In steps Porter Goss. He is an operations man and he was causing heads to roll within the analysts dominated CIA. But, for some reason the Bush Administration took a Clintonesque policy and fired him. Even worse, they are replacing him with an analyst: Gen. Hayden. We don’t need more pointy-headed, pocket-protector wearing, computer lovin’, not-in-touch-with-reality desk jockeys to lead any part of this government!!! We need real men with the moral courage and managerial fortitude to get rid of the still implemented Clintonian bureaucracies and lead this country according to the original intent of the U.S. Constitution. I fear all we shall get out of Senor Analyst Hayden is more of the same lame, middle of the road, get-no-where, do-nothing placatations (not a real word)!
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You give Clinton too much credit for even caring about operations. In fact, he cared little about intelligence and less about defense. Hence, from 1992 to 1996, he used DoD cuts as a cash cow to fund his socialistic, domestic programs. He was too busy using the White House position for his own ends, decimated Federal rules and regulations so that relativism prevailed, and then threw money at the problem retroactively. Moreover, CIA Director at the time was WOOLSEY, who was star-struck by satellite intelligence and impatient with "guys on the street." Besides, when it was revealed that the CIA might actually have to pay thugs and cultural low-lifes for information, the media was in an uproar....it just wasn't politically correct to rely on the important information from the field, derived by human operatives and agents...and THEN came 9/11 !
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