WP: Goss, 8 Ex-Chiefs of CIA Mark Old Post's Passing(Negroponte's job now)

[DeepModem Mom]

Goss, 8 Ex-Chiefs of CIA Mark Old Post's Passing
Responsibilities Now Held by Negroponte

By Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 17, 2005; Page A11


CIA Director Porter J. Goss threw a wake yesterday.

With eight former intelligence chiefs at his side, including former president George H.W. Bush, Goss honored the influential and powerful position they have all held: director of central intelligence, a job that no longer exists.

The post was officially taken away from Goss two months ago and promptly abolished. Since then, the former Florida congressman has been in charge only of the CIA, and not the rest of the intelligence community, as he had been when he was sworn in almost a year ago.

John D. Negroponte, who took over the DCI's responsibilities of briefing the president and coordinating the country's 15 intelligence agencies under the newly created title of director of national intelligence, did not attend the party at the CIA's headquarters in Langley. Goss's office could not remember whether he had been invited. Negroponte's office said he would not have made it anyway because he was traveling.

Along with Goss, the former DCIs at yesterday's private event were Bush, James R. Schlesinger, retired Adm. Stansfield Turner, William H. Webster, Robert M. Gates, R. James Woolsey, John M. Deutch and George J. Tenet. Cynthia Helms, the widow of Richard M. Helms, and Barbara Colby, the widow of William E. Colby, also attended the gathering in the agency's cafeteria, which began with an hour-long ceremony commemorating the service of the former DCIs....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/16/AR2005081601390.html

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. And they all probably had a special meeting to make sure they

get their stories straight, since the shit is about to hit the fan.

[loudsue]

2. There's just something strange about this whole meeting.

But :shrug: that's the spy community for ya!

This sucker needs to be :kick:

[Zorra]

3. Did Negroponte burn a lifesize effigy of the Statue of Liberty at the

ceremony, as Poppy chanted old Nazi drinking songs?

Somehow this is the image that comes to my mind.

[GoldenOldie]

4. CIA Ceremony or Shadow Government?

Does anyone else smell something rotten about this????