CIA Must Assure Agents It Has Their Backs by Ron Kessler - -
This article came up in a recent conversation about the continuing malaise at the CIA as a result of the agency being a football in the dangerous game of political expediency:
Newsmax.com: Bond: CIA Must Assure Agents It Has Their Backs Despite Criticism Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:42 AM By: Ronald Kessler
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/CIA_Panetta_security/2009/06/10/223533.html
Given recent chilling developments, the CIA needs to take steps to assure operations officers that the agency backs them, Republican Sen. Kit Bond told Newsmax.
The Missouri Republican, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, cited Philip Mudd’s withdrawal from consideration as chief of intelligence of the Department of Homeland Security because Democrats were planning to raise the fact that he had participated in CIA briefings of members of Congress about enhanced interrogation techniques.
[…]
As noted in the Newsmax article "Democrats Undercut Our Security Again," besides being tremendously knowledgeable, Mudd is known for being open-minded and nonpartisan.
Yet as Mudd was about to undergo questioning before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, it became clear that Democrats planned to use him as a whipping boy for Bush administration policies, especially enhanced interrogation.
[…]
When Mudd’s nomination ran into political headwinds, Obama was willing to toss one of the country’s most respected intelligence professionals, depriving Homeland Security of expertise in a position that is vital to protecting the country.
Calling the Newsmax account “right on target,” Bond said he plans to ask Panetta what steps he plans to take to try to counteract the CIA’s reversion to the kind of risk aversion that contributed to the failure to detect the 9/11 plot.
Read the entire article here: Newsmax.com: Bond: CIA Must Assure Agents It Has Their Backs Despite Criticism Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:42 AM By: Ronald Kessler
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/CIA_Panetta_security/2009/06/10/223533.html
20090610 SDOSM CIA Must Assure Agents It Has Their Backs by Kessler
Ronald Kessler is chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com. View his previous reports and get his dispatches sent to you free via e-mail. Go here now.
Democrats Undercut Our Security Again
This article came up in a recent conversation about the continuing malaise at the CIA as a result of the agency being a football in the dangerous game of political expediency:
Newsmax.com: Bond: CIA Must Assure Agents It Has Their Backs Despite Criticism Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:42 AM By: Ronald Kessler
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/CIA_Panetta_security/2009/06/10/223533.html
Given recent chilling developments, the CIA needs to take steps to assure operations officers that the agency backs them, Republican Sen. Kit Bond told Newsmax.
The Missouri Republican, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, cited Philip Mudd’s withdrawal from consideration as chief of intelligence of the Department of Homeland Security because Democrats were planning to raise the fact that he had participated in CIA briefings of members of Congress about enhanced interrogation techniques.
[…]
As noted in the Newsmax article "Democrats Undercut Our Security Again," besides being tremendously knowledgeable, Mudd is known for being open-minded and nonpartisan.
Yet as Mudd was about to undergo questioning before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, it became clear that Democrats planned to use him as a whipping boy for Bush administration policies, especially enhanced interrogation.
[…]
When Mudd’s nomination ran into political headwinds, Obama was willing to toss one of the country’s most respected intelligence professionals, depriving Homeland Security of expertise in a position that is vital to protecting the country.
Calling the Newsmax account “right on target,” Bond said he plans to ask Panetta what steps he plans to take to try to counteract the CIA’s reversion to the kind of risk aversion that contributed to the failure to detect the 9/11 plot.
Read the entire article here: Newsmax.com: Bond: CIA Must Assure Agents It Has Their Backs Despite Criticism Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:42 AM By: Ronald Kessler
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/CIA_Panetta_security/2009/06/10/223533.html
20090610 SDOSM CIA Must Assure Agents It Has Their Backs by Kessler
Ronald Kessler is chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com. View his previous reports and get his dispatches sent to you free via e-mail. Go here now.
Democrats Undercut Our Security Again
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