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  • White House Orders Purge of CIA ’Liberals,’ Sources Say
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Agency officials believed to be disloyal to Bush are reportedly the targets
    by Knut Royce
    WASHINGTON - The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter J. Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media about the conduct of the Iraq war and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to knowledgeable sources.
    "The agency is being purged on instructions from the White House," said a former senior (…)

  • Veteran CIA terror hunter quits over gag
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Shaun Waterman
    A veteran CIA terror hunter has quit the agency, saying it gagged him for fear his exposure of intelligence failures would embarrass other U.S. agencies.
    Michael Scheuer, a 22-year CIA veteran who headed its operations against terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, told United Press International that he was barred from publishing a critique he wrote in May "documenting management and leadership failures" in U.S. efforts to disrupt al-Qaida and capture or kill its leader, (…)

  • CIA looks for signals in Bin Laden video
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Tony Allen-Mills, Columbus, Ohio
    UNRELEASED portions of a new videotape from Osama Bin Laden were being examined by American intelligence officials yesterday as election campaign strategists vowed to prevent the Al-Qaeda leader’s surprise re-emergence from disrupting the final two days of the presidential race.
    The Central Intelligence Agency and other government officials were searching for signs that Bin Laden may have been seeking to trigger a terrorist attack in the hope of (…)