Reuters: CIA faces spy shortages as staffers go private [View All]

[JaneGat]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
By David Morgan Sat Oct 1, 3:09 AM ET

"As CIA Director Porter Goss tries to rebuild the agency's global operations, he faces a shortage of experienced spies created by a post-September 11 stampede to the private sector, current and former intelligence officials say.

Goss, who a year ago inherited a CIA wracked by criticism of intelligence failures over Iraq and the September 11, 2001, attacks, has come under fire from critics about the publicized departures of several high-level clandestine officers.

Reform advocates see the loss of senior officials as a natural consequence of changes intended to root out an old guard blamed for lapses that prompted Congress to put the CIA under a new director of national intelligence, John Negroponte.

"The CIA and the intelligence community failed this country pretty badly. That's why there's new leadership at the CIA. Change is not easy," said Rep. Peter Hoekstra (news, bio, voting record) of Michigan, the Republican chairman of the House of Representatives intelligence committee."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051001/pl_nm/security_cia_dc;_ylt=ApLC156anmffTXEsXVxe8F.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-

The repuke model is forming with the privatization of one of our most important and sensitive agencies. What's next (or so far unreported)?-- agents outsourced from foreign countries? It's such a bad idea, how can they resist? :banghead: