Darwin and the Agency-Disasters Game
Career professionals are bailing out at the CIA in droves since Porter Goss became Director, claiming he was committed to “restructuring an American spy network tarnished by 9/11 failings and the inability to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.” Robert Grenier, who spent most of his career undercover overseas and took charge of the Counterterrorism Center about a year ago is Goss’ latest firing.
This whole ‘restructuring’ game in the intelligence business has put our national security in a dark room with a blanket thrown over its head. Goss is merely one guy, screwing up one agency, but since 9-11 the current administration has panicked itself into
Goss’ messing with the clandestine structure at CIA
The nearly total demolition of a once orderly FBI
Creation of something called the Homeland Security Agency, that made paper-chains of command and further compounded the confusion surrounding a blizzard of cross-purposed agencies, including
Director of National Intelligence
National Intell…