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CIA Turf War?

May 27th, 2009 3 Comments

Great, we all know nothing bad happens when the CIA has a turf war?

The jockeying between CIA Director Leon Panetta and National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair centers on Blair’s effort to choose his own representatives at U.S. embassies instead of relying only on CIA station chiefs. Current and former U.S. officials described the dispute on the condition of anonymity, because of the sensitivity of intelligence issues.

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3 Responses to “CIA Turf War?”

  1. BigDaddyrich says:
    May 28, 2009 at 12:30 am

    Creating the National Intelligence Director post was not the best idea to come out of the 9/11 Commission — it just created another level of unneeded bureaucracy in the intelligence community. The CIA Director, by nature of the fact that he/she heads the CENTRAL Intelligence Agency, should be the chief collector/presenter of intelligence to the president.

  2. Quaker in a Basement says:
    May 28, 2009 at 12:45 am

    Sheesh! With everything else going on in this country and overseas, these two can’t play nice? Sounds like Mr. Obama needs to give these little boys a time out.

  3. jr says:
    May 28, 2009 at 6:47 am

    We have 8 years of damage to repair and these guys are trying to see who has the bigger wee-wee