And let the purge begin

Atrios discusses this piece in Newsday on how all those "liberals" in the CIA who have the nerve to leak their actual intelligence findings are to be purged.

The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President George W. 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 CIA official who maintains close ties to both the agency and to the White House. "Goss was given instructions ... to get rid of those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president's agenda."

Another example of the real danger of an administration that despises facts and the truth. The CIA is about to become just another arm of the White House spin machine. If your not really frightened you should be.

Also see Jazz's post yesterday at Running Scared.


Cross posted at Running Scared