WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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.
It also doesn’t help when your Boss, in a snit will reveal you to be an agent or to show how tough he is about fighting terrorism outs a double agent to the press.
Oh,yeah, SIGN ME UP!
