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09-30-2004 09:47 PM |
New C.I.A. Chief Chooses 4 Republicans for Top Aides!
Now the info from the C.I.A. will be really good....
And Americans don't see WTF is going on ... Amazing!
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New C.I.A. Chief Chooses 4 Top Aides From House
By DOUGLAS JEHL
Published: October 1, 2004
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 - Porter J. Goss, the new director of central intelligence, has chosen four House Republican aides for senior positions at the Central Intelligence Agency, including the No. 3 job in the agency, former agency officials said Thursday.
The decision to appoint the four officials is creating waves in the agency, which prides itself on objectivity and independence, the former officials said.
All four worked under Mr. Goss as political appointees on the Republican staff of the House Intelligence Committee, when he was the panel chairman.
The move could also reignite Democratic criticism of Mr. Goss, 65, a former Republican congressman from Florida who promised in his confirmation hearings that in his new position he would put behind him a partisan political past.
All four aides are seen as highly loyal to Mr. Goss, and their appointment was viewed in the C.I.A. as aneffort by the new director to assert control of an agency that has come under sharp criticism from conservatives over recent disclosures that have been portrayed as disloyal to President Bush.
"If you want to come in and show people up front that you're in charge, this is a pretty aggressive way of doing it," said a former intelligence official who worked under George J. Tenet, the former director.
It is not unusual in the agency's history for a new chief to appoint a new team. But it is rare for so many newly appointed officials to come from outside the agency and from jobs where they were partisan appointees.
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