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Originally Posted by archer2371
Look guys, it's entirely impossible to go through the Company and get rid of every single Democrat in there, it's just not gonna happen. Like I said before, some of these guys were using the intelligence community as a way to influence the outcome of the election by bringing up the explosives. They're getting off light, they should be getting jail-time, what they did was highly illegal. What Porter Goss is doing is going through and getting rid of basically, the Cold Warriors who are used to the predictability of Russian actions. They're going to be bringing in a mass amount of younger people that think completely different from the current higher ups so they can adapt quickly to the less than predictable terrorist actions. This is by no means a purge of all Democrats in the Company, this is a purge of unimaginative thinking. The Company no longer recruits at Harvard, Yale, etc. They recruit from George Mason, UVA, Virginia Tech, and the like, and they want to get these people in there to get them crunching on the problems that need crunching on.
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If you think this is reform, I'll point you towards the first two paragraphs of the article in question:
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WASHINGTON -- The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President George W. Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media about the conduct of the Iraq war and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to knowledgeable sources.
"The agency is being purged on instructions from the White House," said a former senior CIA official who maintains close ties to both the agency and to the White House. "Goss was given instructions ... to get rid of those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president's agenda."
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This is not an effort to get the old guard out, or increase professionalism. It's an effort to turn the CIA into a political arm of the White House. Making the CIA more political won't solve any intelligence problems, so let's not pretend that this purge is some kind of reform.