Porter Goss Resigns from DCI Post

Time Mag has a web piece on John Negroponte's restructuring of the CIA and diminishment of its areas of responsibility and authority.

The author is obviously a CIA sympathizer and goes so far to amuse us with some pretty far-fetched baloney slicing:

CIA supporters are upset about what they see as the neutering of an agency that helped win the Cold War and worry that it will undermine its human spy responsibilities, of which the CIA is still in charge.

In reality, of course, the CIA had vastly over-rated the intelligence figures on the strength of the Soviet economy and mis-read a lot of the effects of the Cold War's Thawing. President Reagan and Pope John Paul 2 had more to do with the downfall of the USSR than the social club upper-class WASPs at the CIA. Stansfield "Tugboat" Turner famously fired 800 senior HumInt CIA types on orders from his gadget-loving technocratic boss, the clueless Jimmy Carter.

Since then the CIA has relied on expensive toys linked by satellites to swoop on enemies of our nation---oops, that's the plan anyway!

The CIA has been nabbed trying to undermine GWB's policies and strengthen its own position by leaks and even publishing books [by James Scheuer] aiming at pursuing its own agenda---or at least an agenda other than the Administration's.

The CIA's failure to hand off information about Al Qaeda types arriving in San Diego from Malaysia to the FBI aided the 9/11 plotters in avoiding detection.

So the CIA appears to be a rogue politicized agency which suffers from incompetence in its ranks and insubordination in its attempts to undercut American policy.

I hope Negroponte has full authority from GWB to clean up the mess in Langley.