A cup in Chile shun by one side and the slavery their results from it.

(Sigh)
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A complete capitulation by one side and the slavery that results from it.

* why the press was having such a field day with the Plaime game when anybody with a decent copy of Internet Explorer could pick up the information that was supposedly leaked?

* Why the press, if it is so well informed about matters political and so worldly, would think that anybody else would have such a problem?

I figure either way, the mainstream media comes out on the short end of this fuzzy stick.

* an agreement between two sides equitable to both.

* A cup in Chile shun by one side and the slavery their results from it.

I submit Clinton gave us the latter.

Not sure I see your problem with Clinton's "kids". After all, the Clinton era was essentially a period of peace and prosperity for our country. I was not a huge Clinton fan at the time, but in the rear-view mirror he is looking positivly Jeffersonian.

I am with Goss, we need to get back in the business of keeping secrets...secret. *slaps forehead and shakes head*

From my vantagepoint the administration seemed to be better than its predecessor at appointing adults. How many 20-something kids fresh from their stints as Rhodes Scholars had high level positions in the Clinton administration?

Sure, any system is going to have some 'reward' positions, but in order for the gov't to function at all, there have to be some positions of responsibility where job performance matters more than political affiliation. I think this administration disagrees...

At CIA, hHe kept George Tenent around and then replaced him with Porter Goss, who was a CIA officer and head of the House Intel Committee. The DDCIA Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency is Vice Admiral Albert M. Calland, a career intel guy. (The CIA's website is down at the moment, so I can't access the bios of the other top officials.)

On the DNI side, Negroponte has was a career FSO. Hayden is a four star career intel officer with a stint as head of NSA under his belt.

Itâ??s not the job of a presidential administration to ensure that the nationâ??s intelligence professionals are using tradecraft that stands up to modern investigative techniques; thatâ??s the job of the Agencyâ??s senior leadership.

While that's technically true, James, who keeps appointing incompetents to senior leadership posts all across the government? When Bush says 'I like this guy. Give 'im a job,' no two-bit staffer is going to tell him the guys a crook or an idiot, or even just completely unsuited for the job.

It used to be that in agencies like the CIA, the directorship was a political reward, but still handed to people with some qualification or background in that area. The actual 'heavy lifting' of running the agency was done by the #2 and the admin deputies, who were typically career types from within. But wholesale replacements of senior execs with more political clones & sinecures whose PAC donation record is more important than their resume has eliminated any ability to fix this problem from within...

In the process of doing so, he noticed that the reservation form had a big, red "CIA" stamped on it and figured that the cover had been completely blown.

As the story goes, though, that "CIA" only meant "cash in advance."

On a more serous note, though, the books by Philip Agee that identified probably CIA officers led to a change in the way some of the bureaucracy functions. State used to have its "stud book," a regularly updated volume of bio information about State officers giving details about their various postings abroad. Knowing how diplomatic cover is used, it wasn't too difficult to figure out who didn't fall into the "normal" pattern of State assignments. This let one make assumptions and draw conclusions about those not falling with in the normal pattern.

As a result, the stud-book, already classified--though it may have been only "administratively controlled"--was simply shut down. It was the appropriate step for the time and technology. Now we need more appropriate measures for our current time and technologies.