Bush's Other Intelligence Problems

Why Would an Administration Dismantle the Intelligence Community?

Apart from the obvious civil liberties this administration has ignored, it's also done a good job of dismantling the intelligence community that's supposed to defend us (and actually warned Bush) of 9/11 types of activity.

Continuing to smart from his ignorance of the Aug. 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) that explicitly warned of a terrorist attack by Osama bin Laden just weeks before it occurred, Bush has reshaped and restructured every intelligence agency until none are effective except perhaps the National Security Agency (NSA) which seems adept only at overseeing the innocent movements of American citizens.

Just over a year and a half after creating a unified hierarchical structure to oversee all intelligence gathering activity, his appointee, John Negroponte, has resigned to return to the State Department where ending mid-East tension is more realistic than putting Bush's Humpty Dumpty intelligence agency "restructuring" back together again. It's assumed he will be replaced by Vice Admiral Michael McConnell who presumably can prove the Navy had no prior knowledge of the 9/11 attacks.

George Tenet resigned as head of the CIA in June of 2004, temporarily replaced by John Mclaughlin who was replaced by Porter Goss who abruptly resigned after about 20 months only to be replaced by Bush stooge Michael Hayden.

Oh yeah, the FBI didn't escape Bush's bungling. Bush happily broomed out Clinton's FBI chief Louis Freeh and brought in Robert Mueller, a man so politically corrupt he was defended by John Ashcroft. Mueller has been successful in refuting the FBI's role in ignoring 9/11 intelligence which means he and Bush are cut from the same polyester.

And don't even get me started on the office of Secretary of Defense' new Director Robert Gates who was finally rewarded for his complicity (and silence) in the Iran Contra scandal by being given the responsibility of directing our country's military.

Crooks who can keep their mouths shut get special treatment by this administration.