October 03, 2004
Fun and games at Langley
Posted by
Mark Kleiman
While you weren't looking, Porter Goss, the intensely partisan new CIA Director -- as chair of the House Intelligence Committee, he said he'd investigate Valerie Plame's outing if someone brought him a semen-stained dress -- appointed four Republican staffers to senior jobs at the Agency. One of them -- appointed to the third-ranking job at the Agency -- turns out to have been fired from the CIA twenty years ago after being caught shoplifting and then lying about it to CIA investigators.
