Appointments like this.

Unfortunately, there's nothing better on offer. Any Dem that could win the nomination would be far worse.

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Here's another reason. The administration doesn't even seem to be trying to win its ongoing war with the CIA. The agency needs to be abolished and rebuilt from scratch.

Rand,

I ain't picking up what you are putting down...

The WS article about the CIA is ridiculous. It was Bush that fired Porter Goss. So to somehow pass this off as a "CIA victory" is odd. Bush got rid of him.

But what really takes the cake is that nowhere does the article mention Kyle Foggo's problems. Look him up. The FBI searched his home and office, and he has been linked to the Duke Cunningham scandal. Goss put a number of bad people in senior positions in CIA. One had been kicked out of there 20 years before, and another is under investigation. But the Weekly Standard wants to portray this as a bunch of liberal CIA staffers.

Hey Dan,
Who else would leak state secrets to the WaPo and NYT?

Has HUD ever been anything other than a place to put AA hires? It should be abolished along with the other government tax sinks.

"Who else would leak state secrets to the WaPo and NYT?"

Huh? You think that the CIA is the only organization that leaks? During much of the 1990s it was well-known that Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz got a lot of leaks of highly classified information from a source or sources in the DoD, probably the Defense Intelligence Agency. Gertz is conservative, and The Weekly Standard thought it was great that people leaked him classified intelligence information.

Washington leaks all the time. But what does that have to do with the fact that Bush fired Porter Goss?

What kind of leaks have there been AFTER 9/11 and to who? The leaks at the CIA were going on before Goss got there so it would seem it was Bush they didn't like since Tenet was still there. Liberal staffers who don't like Bush are leaking classified info during a time of war. Sounds like a serious crime to me. That they would not like an "outsider conservative" like Goss and do what they could to discredit him should be expected whether he made mistakes or not. At all of my jobs, insubordination got you fired. The point was that many CIA employees act like they own the place and are not held accountable for their actions. One reason to leak something is to get even.

"At all of my jobs, insubordination got you fired."

Bush fired Porter Goss. So what did Goss do?