Bush Wants to Bolster CIA but Doesn't Offer Specifics

[Moloch]

WASHINGTON — President Bush (news - web sites) has ordered what may be a major expansion of the CIA (news - web sites), calling for the beleaguered agency to add thousands of analysts and spies as part of an ongoing buildup in the war on terrorism, according to a White House memorandum released Tuesday.

But the directive set no timetable for the changes and offered no indication that the White House intended to ask Congress for the massive funding increase such a plan would require.

The proposal was outlined in a memorandum delivered to CIA Director Porter J. Goss last week. Bush instructed the intelligence chief to increase the number of analysts and spies at the CIA by 50%. The figure stunned current and former intelligence officials, several of whom said the CIA had not charted such an aggressive course of growth since its inception after World War II.

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[VivaKerry]

1. We should be shuddering in our shoes. Seriously.

and poppy has been sticking awfully close to his boy, the king. Daddy knows what the CIA really needs. And it won't be good.

[bin.dare]

2. i have a suspicion that ...

... this is part of an escallating war between factions in the CIA. Papa Bush is leading one faction (i do not know the other leader). This call for hiring is a warning to the other side to get in line or else coinciding with, according to my tin-foil-hat-theory, the downing of the plane in Heuston as a warning to Papa B. Keep your eyes and ears open over the next two months, i think the news will have many strange coincidences occuring.

[rooboy]

3. I concur. n/t

[VivaKerry]

4. Hmmm, I had not connected the downing of the bush plane

with possible hostility on the part of deep down cia'ers. Interesting. Interesting. I will keep my eyes and ears open over the next few months.