Tuesday, November 08, 2005

CYA at the CIA

According to The Drudge Report Rep. Dennis Hastert and Sen. Bill Frist are launching a probe into the CIA leak that revealed the existence of "black prisons" housing terrorists around the world.

It is about time people got serious about plugging up some of these leaks that actually do involve national security. This is just one such leak, and I think it is time to start cleaning house of all personnel at the CIA that are fighting the administration, particularly in a time of war.

Some career bureaucrats at the CIA are doing everything they can to undermine this administration. I'm sorry, but to me the CIA, just like the Judiciary, the EPA, the FAA, the State Dept. etc. should reflect the will of the people who elected this President.

No agency in this country faced more public scrutiny than the CIA after the attacks of 9/11--and this scrutiny exposed some serious problems. Now, I believe, in true bureaucratic form, some of those exposed at the CIA are in CYA mode. Hopefully this probe will prove to those conflicted CIAers that leaking truly damaging "classified" information for the purpose of undermining the administration is no more acceptable than "outing" an already "out" pencil pusher working a desk job at Langley for more than five years.

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