CIA

WHY did Mr. Goss Leave??? Easy...he didn't get along with either the agency staff, or with Mr. Negroponte, the over-all Intel honcho...this has been in the offing for nearly a year...Negroponte had to try to get along with him for a respectable time before seeing to it that Goss left. This is not at all abrupt in the way the media is reporting it, and it has been one of those endless but generally accurate "open secrets" of DC since last spring, but it picked up steam late last summer. The straw that broke the camels back (pun intended) was the problem with Mary McCarthy, the analyst who apparently gave tons of secret data to journalist Dana Priest to use in the press (and win a Pulitzer), was caught and fired...it was considered to not have been handled well. Personally, I think Madame McCarthy needs to spend a long time in a federal facility.

Who is the apparent successor to Goss??? Mike Hayden...an Air Force four-star...who used to head the NSA...(and who has dem's in full masturbatory mode about eavesdropping on Americans)...His primary qualification for the job isn't so much his career in intel, but his current position as Negroponte's second chair...and they get along. The ridiculous call by the Republican chairman of the House Intell committee that Hayden isn't a good choice because the Pentagon and CIA don't get along is stupid beyond belief, and is a total straw man...there is more there than is being said.