CIA purge underway
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The White House has ordered the new CIA director to get rid of agents disloyal to President Bush, Newsday reported this week. A former intelligence official said Bush aides considered the Central Intelligence Agency a “hotbed of liberals” out to thwart Bush’s agenda with damaging leaks on Iraq and the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Several top CIA operatives have resigned, including two this week, since former Florida congressman Porter Goss became director, in September. Bush spokesmen denied the president ordered a purge. Goss told employees there was nothing political about the personnel changes, saying they were needed to make the CIA more efficient.
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