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The Yes-Man...Porter Goss Flashback!!

Mon May 8, 2006 02:33

American Prospect, Inc.

The Yes-Man...Porter Goss Flashback!!

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Demoralized, weakened, and politicized, the CIA may yet recover. The
agency, particularly the Directorate of Operations, has weathered
storms before and knows how to hunker down. Goss will probably not
remain at the helm for long. And despite him, the agency continues
to produce reports on the U.S. predicament in Iraq that reflect a
measure of reality-based pessimism. But there is anger, bitterness,
and an unhealthy caution that ill serves America's need for an
agency that, as one former CIA officer says, "speaks truth to
power." Enormous damage has been done, and the rebuilding of the CIA
will take many years after Goss departs.

Robert Dreyfuss is a Prospect senior correspondent. He covers
national security for Rolling Stone and writes frequently for The
Nation and Mother Jones. His book, Devil's Game: How the United
States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam, was published this fall
by Henry Holt/Metropolitan.

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