Under the boot heels of Bush...

Billions of dollars of "intelligence" is about to get a whole lot MORE unreliable.

New CIA director Porter Goss said at the confirmation meetings earlier this year that there's no room for politicizing intelligence. How fitting that Goss mislead Congress about his beliefs. Now he's about to politicize the intelligence to the partisan extreme.

Goss has already told the agency via memorandum that they WILL be mouthpieces for the Bush agenda. No one will be allowed to tell the truth, unless it looks good for Bush.

Check out these quotes from the NY Times story (requires free registration)...

Goss told agency employees that their job is to "support the administration and its policies in our work...''

"As agency employees we do not identify with, support or champion opposition to the administration or its policies..." Do not...support...opposition... Not even when those policies are to distort and lie about the information you worked so hard to uncover?

Isn't this how we got mislead into a war in Iraq? Wasn't Bush's willfull overlooking of counter-evidence the last straw that forced agents to leak all that counter information to the press? One guy filled a whole book with Bush's mistakes and distortions.

So what does Bush do? Well of course it's not to do a better job weighing the facts. Instead, his decision is to purge the government of truth-tellers, silence the rest, and compell them to put loyalty to the Party ahead of loyalty to the country.

Okay, so how long before they break out the brown shirts...?