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Nov. 17th, 2004 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisyphusshruggedCNN tells us about Porter Goss and his rousing message to his CIA troops
I'm sure his staff are just as reassured as they're intended to be that that Goss wants to be a non-partisan director at a time when officials are waiting to hear how many of them will be asked to leave as he seeks to put his mark on the agency.
Unless, of course, they read the memo, which also contained this:
I guess that must have slipped right by them at CNN. Or maybe it wasn't newsworthy.
Gee, wonder how that Justice Department investigation of accounting irregularities at AOL/Time Warner is going?
In a message to CIA staff Monday, Porter Goss, the director of central intelligence, said he will soon announce changes in "procedures, organization, senior personnel and areas of focus for our organization," according to officials who have read it.
The e-mail message was sent out hours after the resignations of two top CIA officials over personality and policy disputes with staff members that Goss, the former House Intelligence Committee chairman, brought with him from Congress.
The message appeared intended to reassure CIA staff that Goss wants to be a non-partisan director at a time when officials are waiting to hear how many of them will be asked to leave as he seeks to put his mark on the agency.
Goss told CIA personnel he wants the intelligence they deliver to "let the facts alone speak to policymakers," amid concerns expressed by some Democrats that the new director's immediate staff is too partisan.
"Intelligence-related issues have become the fodder of partisan food fights and turf power skirmishes. All the while, the demand for our services and products against a ruthless and unconventional enemy has expanded geometrically, and we are expected to deliver instantly," Goss said.
U.S. intelligence has "reason to be proud of our achievements," he said, along with a "need to do better."
I'm sure his staff are just as reassured as they're intended to be that that Goss wants to be a non-partisan director at a time when officials are waiting to hear how many of them will be asked to leave as he seeks to put his mark on the agency.
Unless, of course, they read the memo, which also contained this:
Porter J. Goss, the new intelligence chief, has told Central Intelligence Agency employees that their job is to "support the administration and its policies in our work,'' a copy of an internal memorandum shows.
"As agency employees we do not identify with, support or champion opposition to the administration or its policies," Mr. Goss said in the memorandum, which was circulated late on Monday. He said in the document that he was seeking "to clarify beyond doubt the rules of the road."
I guess that must have slipped right by them at CNN. Or maybe it wasn't newsworthy.
Gee, wonder how that Justice Department investigation of accounting irregularities at AOL/Time Warner is going?
