From Newsday:
The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President George W. Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media about the conduct of the Iraq war and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to knowledgeable sources."The agency is being purged on instructions from the White House," said a former senior CIA official who maintains close ties to both the agency and to the White House. "Goss was given instructions ... to get rid of those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president's agenda."
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Am I missing something, or are the actions of the Bush Administration and the Republican Party simply aimed at producing a one-party state?
I'm not being flippant, but when I look at the historical record on on-party states, they always begin with a big popular vote for the ruling party, then parts of the state piece by piece are purged of people who are not partisan for the ruling party. What do the checks and balances of the Constitution mean exactly, when all three branches of the State are in the political control of one party?
Posted by JP | November 15, 2004 10:18 AM