Despite Turmoil, CIA Chief's Team in Place

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

KATHERINE PFLEGER SHRADER

Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Monday is Day One of a new era at the Central Intelligence Agency as director Porter Goss, on the job for four months, finally gets his leadership team in place.

The time since Goss' swearing-in has prove rocky for an agency still reeling from its failure to warn of the Sept. 11 attacks and its flawed prewar intelligence on Iraq's weapons.

More than a dozen senior officials have left since Goss arrived. The messy details of some internal battles have seeped into the news.

Critics have complained that Goss, a former Republican congressman who served as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, politicized the agency by hiring GOP aides. Goss' allies say wholesale changes were essential after the intelligence failures of Sept. 11 and Iraq.

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[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. this is one of the stories that bush*s SS bruhaha is DISTRACTING us from

among others...WMDistraction"s ..look look over here at this Social Security Crisis...so you don't see the reaL dastardly things that he & they are getting away with!