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2010-04-20 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by ryuge 2010-04-20 07:20|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Now is the time for Mr. Panetta to choose a deputy who will shake up the culture at the CIA so the agency can recruit and retain new blood.

Good luck with that. As an evil government employee I can tell you that the state of affairs in other Fed LE Agencies is similar to that of the CIA. The CIA doesn't appear to have improved much since 9/11, and in our current "man caused disaster" government I doubt it will be allowed to.

Posted by Keeney 2010-04-20 09:45|| 2010-04-20 09:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Now is the time for Mr. Panetta to choose a deputy who will shake up the culture at the CIA so the agency can recruit and retain new blood.

I think now, or more exactly after Novemeber there would be the time to investigate those who had Kappes nominiated.

Posted by JFM 2010-04-20 09:53|| 2010-04-20 09:53|| Front Page Top

#3 A knight of ghosts and shadows
I summoned am to tourney
Five leagues past the wild world's end
Methinks it is no journey
-- Tom 'O Bedlam

Posted by mojo 2010-04-20 12:18|| 2010-04-20 12:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Take the operation in Khost. The woman put in charge of the base was trained as a reports officer, not a clandestine operator. Because she wanted the new agent the Jordanians were handing her to "feel comfortable," she organized a mass welcoming party for him at Forwarding Operating Base Chapman in Khost and rejected requests from security contractors that the agent undergo a search before being allowed onto the U.S. base. When al-Balawi got out of the car and saw the crowd, an eyewitness who survived the attack says he began praying under his breath and then blew himself up. "The whole operation was a travesty," a former senior clandestine officer told me. And it was Kappes' own, meant to be his crowning moment.

A touchy feely analyst type gets an operations role and manages to get both herself and the people under her blown to bits. Yet another great decision by an Ogabe minion. I wonder if she had anything to do with the leaks that damaged Bush so badly.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2010-04-20 17:13|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com 2010-04-20 17:13|| Front Page Top

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