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2004-11-16, 3:43 p.m. While I know I had promised to lay off of the political ranting on here, there is one thing I wanted to share with everyone that I found immensly disturbing. There had been grumblings from the Administration about all of the classified info that had been leaked from the CIA in the months leading up to the election- mainly to do with inteligence that the White House posessed that was never shared with the American public- mainly regarding the weapons of mass destruction claims. It seems that most people in the CIA knew all along there were never any weapons in the first place and were getting a little peaved that the White House was twisting the intelligence to suite their agenda for war. So since the Whitehouse wasn't being candid with the rest of the country, several people in the CIA broke rank and 'accidentally' started leaking this information out to the press. Rumors started flying about the head hunting that would be taking place in the CIA to force out those responsible for the leaks. Now, I am of the opinion that had the Administration used the intelligence responsibly, no one in the CIA would have been compelled to do this. Now that the election is over, there has been a flury of people resigning. I got a little curious as to just how many people had resigned in the past couple of years and here is what I found: RAND BEERS - NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL ROBERT BLACKWILL - NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL COFER BLACK - STATE DEPARTMENT, COUNTERTERRORISM RICHARD CLARKE - DIRECTOR NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL/CYBERSPACE SECURITY VICTORIA CLARKE - DEFENSE DEPARTMENT J.D. CROUCH II - ASST SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY POLICY KENNETH DeGRAFFENREID - PENTAGON, INTEL GEN. WAYNE DOWNING - DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER FOR COUNTERTERRORISM GEN. TOMMY FRANKS - U.S. ARMY CENTCOM GEN. JAY GARNER STEPHEN R. KAPPES - CIA DEPTY DIR OPERATIONS KAREN KWIATKOWSKI - DoD NEAR EAST BUREAU ISAM AL-KHAFAJI - IRAQI RECONSTRUCTION COUNCIL COL. DOUGLAS MACGREGOR - US ARMY JOHN MC LAUGHLIN - DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CIA LT. JOHN OLIVIERA - U.S. NAVY JOHN O'NEILL - FBI RICHARD PERLE - PENTAGON ADVISORY BOARD CHAIRMAN JOHN M. POINDEXTER - DEFENSE DEPARTMENT JAMES PAVITT - DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS, CIA PAUL REDMOND - DEPARTMENT HOMELAND SECURITY HOWARD SCHMIDT - CYPBERSPACE SECURITY / NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL GEN. ERIC SHINSEKI - U.S. ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF MICHAEL J. SULICK - CIA OFFICE OF DIR OPERATIONS LARRY THOMPSON - DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TOM WARRICK - STATE DEPARTMENT THOMAS E. WHITE - U.S. ARMY SECRETARY RABBI DOV ZAKHEIM - PENTAGON CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER GENERAL ANTHONY ZINNI CHARLOTTE BEERS - WHITE HOUSE PR MARGARET TUTWILER - WHITE HOUSE PR TUCKER ESKEW - WHITE HOUSE PR JOHN H. BROWN - U.S. DIPLOMAT MITCH DANIELS - WHITE HOUSE BUDGET DIRECTOR WILLIAM FARISH - AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN ARI FLEISCHER - WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY R. GLENN HUBBARD - WHITE HOUSE COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISORS ELAINE KAPLAN - SPECIAL COUNSEL JOHN BRADY KIESLING - U.S. AMBASSADOR TO GREECE LARRY LINDSEY - WHITE HOUSE SENIOR ECONOMIC ADVISOR JOSEPH WILSON - U.S. AMBASSADOR TO GABON MARY ANN WRIGHT - U.S. AMBASSADOR TO MONGOLIA ROSARIO MARIN - U.S. TREASURER PAUL O'NEILL - U.S. SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY MARK WEINBERGER - TREASURY SEC'Y FOR TAX POLICY LINDA FISHER - DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR, EPA ERIC SCHAEFFER - EPA OFFICE OF REGULATORY ENFORCEMENT CHRISTINE WHITMAN - EPA BRUCE BUCKHEIT - EPA ENFORCEMENT AGENT J.P. SUAREZ -EPA ENFORCEMENT AGENT THOMAS SCULLY - MEDICARE AND MEDICAID ADMINISTRATOR PATRICIA WARE - EXEC DIRECTOR PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HIV & AIDS JOHN W. CARLIN - U.S. ARCHIVIST TERESA CHAMBERS - US PARK POLICE CHIEF JOHN DiIULIO - OFFICE OF FAITH BASED INITIATIVES MIKE DOMBECK, FOREST SERVICE CHIEF ANDREW ELLER - U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE DON EVANS - SECRETARY OF COMMERCE RICHARD HERDMAN - SEC ACCOUNTANT ED KAST - FLORIDA ELECTION CHIEF DON NORTH - IRAQI MEDIA PROJECT THEODORE OLSON - SOLICITOR GENERAL ROD PAIGE - EDUCATION SECRETARY HARVEY PITT - SEC CHAIRMAN ABDEL BASSET TURKI - CPA HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER AL-MAHAMADAWI- IRAQI MINISTER ANN VENEMAN - AGRICULTURE SECRETARY JACK WALTERS - BOONE COUNTY MISSOURI GOP CHAIRMAN WILLIAM WEBSTER - PUBLIC ACCOUNTING OVERSIGHT BOARD And that isn't even all of them. Now a little reshuffling of the deck usually happens right before a president begins their 2nd term, but what I find frightening is the sheer # of people who work for the CIA who have either been forced out or who felt compelled to quit. Abd contrary to what most people think, the CIA did their job in warning the president of 9/11- anyone who has read the commission report and can read between the lines realizes that. So these people aren't being forced out or quitting because they didn't do their job, they're being forced out because they didn't tow the company line. Now maybe its just me, but I really don't think this is the time to be purging the CIA of such a large chunk of its veternal personnel that have been dealing with terrorism for the past several years. Think of it as a football game and your opponent has the ball inside your red zone. Do you replace all of your starting defensive linemen when you're trying to make a goal line stand? I can't believe this administration is so petty as to put national security at risk just to get back at a handful of people who felt morally obligated to tell the truth to the American public. 0 comments from the peanut gallery |
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