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Decimating our counter-intelligence capacity.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)

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"New CIA Director Porter J. Goss's terrible swift sword has a keen edge, but the reforms being introduced by Goss and his associates do not seem designed to improve the intelligence product," reports former CIA officer Philip Giraldi, a private security consultant and contributor to The American Conservative. "Morale is plummeting as many believe that something amounting to a purge is underway, orchestrated by a [CIA director] who is far more loyal to the White House and to the Republican Party than he is to the independence and integrity of the CIA.

"Vice President Dick Cheney, incensed by CIA failure to support White House policy positions, wants the agency to produce the kind of intelligence that will help the administration, not critique it," Giraldi concludes. "A senior analyst believes that production of objective intelligence at CIA will ...

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