This has GOT to be propaganda........

[kuozzman]

Newsweek-Feb. 7th issue
"White House Fears That the Enemy Is ... the CIA"

What a bunch of crap! Bush's Dad helped create the damn CIA and they both still obviously have close ties to it. Hell, Chimp just appoionted a whole new leadership for it. :wtf:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6884903/site/newsweek/

Feb. 7 issue - Administration politicos cite a series of developments during last year's campaign as evidence that CIA careerists were out to get President Bush. First, not long before the Democratic convention in Boston, CIA bin Laden expert Michael Scheuer published "Imperial Hubris," an initially anonymous polemic castigating the U.S. government for misjudgments in responding to Islamic terrorism. Included in the book was a short critique of U.S. policy in Iraq. At first the agency allowed Scheuer, posing as Anonymous, to give news interviews. Scheuer says the CIA later shut down his media access, but only after stories about the book began more pointedly to cite his criticisms of agency management. Current and former agency officials say the CIA initially let Scheuer talk because it feared accusations of censorship; they say the agency moved to muzzle him when it began to look as if he was criticizing administration policy. Some Bushies believed Scheuer tried to establish contact with Democratic Party foreign-policy advisers. Both Scheuer and Rand Beers, the Kerry campaign's national-security adviser, emphatically denied this. "I voted for Bush," Scheuer, now retired from the CIA, told NEWSWEEK. "The idea that I was talking to Democrats is ludicrous."

After the Scheuer controversy came a leak to columnist Robert Novak that respected Mideast analyst Paul Pillar had told a meeting of private citizens that his CIA office had warned that U.S. military action in Iraq would inflame Muslim militancy, but that policymakers paid little attention. Then The Washington Times alleged that the CIA's Counterterrorism Center had given more than $15 million in grants to administration critics, including former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, a Bush bete noire. Next the contents of a classified CIA study outlining four scenarios for Iraq's future—ranging from gloomy to desperate (i.e., civil war)—were leaked widely after the GOP convention. Just before Election Day, the CIA was blamed for promoting allegations that U.S. forces had allowed the looting of a major Iraqi ammunition dump.

[underpants]

1. The enemy for Wis the truth-the ammo dump heist is only "alleged"?

Just before Election Day, the CIA was blamed for promoting allegations that U.S. forces had allowed the looting of a major Iraqi ammunition dump.

It wasn't alleged it was proven. The embedded TV crew's footage proved it as did reports from National Guardsmen.

[charlie]

2. Careerists

Good choice of words. Bush vs the stagnant bureaucrats. Way to go MSNBC.

They're just prepping the field so Goss'll have an easier time remaking the agency into a fiefdom of Bush cultists.

[bunkerbuster1]

3. It's certainly consistent with Sy Hersch's New Yorker piece

Most who read and commented on the story focused on the strong possibility of an offensive against Iran. But make no mistake--the CIA is seen as a civilian-controlled, not-on-the-reservation enemy. The White House wants to do black ops via their own military agency at the White House's beck and call, and they don't want to have to tell anyone (like, say, Congress) about it.

[mahina]

4. the words 'respected' and 'robert novak' in the same sentance is troubling

And the Washington Moonie Times?

Interesting though, I was sure that was his impression even if untrue. How discouraging that even the intelligence gathering aspect is now ideologically cleansed. How will they handle information that doesn't flatter the boy king?

Cognitive dissonance is a bitch!

[Rose Siding]

5. I thought they were DENYING that there was a purge!

Presidential advisers and supporters of the new CIA director say the circumstantial evidence demonstrates pre-election CIA hostility to Bush policies and justifies new director Porter Goss's purge of the agency's top echelon.

Pretty funny that Goss was MAD about the shoplifting stories on his staff member. Jerk!

[rodeodance]

6. it is the CIA vs the DOD---who has the trust of the President?

[ComerPerro]

7. Why did Tenet get a medal?