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My sources tell me he had problems being subordinate to Director of National Intellegence Negroponte. The likely successor now appears to be Air Force Gen. Hayden, former NSA Director and Negroponte's deputy. 
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I resent ... hick... that remark...Originally posted by lord of the mark
Drunken righties are suggesting Rumsfeld
now if you'll excuse me I have a vote I need to get to.
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I think this string of personnel decisions was handled poorly, if we take the press reports on their face.
Goss was a strong congressman who left the congress to go into public service. In the hierarchy of the Washington social structure, he was more than slightly higher than Negroponte.
I have nothing against Negroponte, but he was hitting above his weight class with the DNI position. As the DNI position was created, Goss's position as DCI was decreased in stature such that Goss was hitting below his weight.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Dissent? Do you really want the CIA engaging in domestic politics?Originally posted by Odin
Goss's sole porpose was to purge the CIA of dissent and refill it with Bush lackeys.I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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Drudge reports that Goss may have had ties to the "Poker Parties."http://tools.wikimedia.de/~gmaxwell/jorbis/JOrbisPlayer.php?path=John+Williams+The+Imperial+M arch+from+The+Empire+Strikes+Back.ogg&wiki=enComment
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I saw that too. More like poke-her parties.
Oooops!I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!Originally posted by Vince278
My sources tell me he had problems being subordinate to Director of National Intellegence Negroponte. The likely successor now appears to be Air Force Gen. Hayden, former NSA Director and Negroponte's deputy.
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No, I want a CIA that isn't full of yes-men telling the administration what they wan to hear.Originally posted by DinoDoc
Dissent? Do you really want the CIA engaging in domestic politics?Comment
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No comment.Originally posted by Zkribbler
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
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