Goss cleaning house.
Since his appointment as Director of Central Intelligence, Porter Goss has fired numerous high-level officials, including George Tenet’s former underlings and many from the clandestine unit. As the New York Times reports, the latest is the deputy director for intelligence at the CIA, head of the analysis unit. (*) Of course we won’t know all the circumstances of these personnel moves. Are all of them advisable? We can’t know.
What is heartening is that at last the government seems to be addressing the long-time need for an overhaul of the intelligence community.