Buddy Lee as CIA Director

It appears that Bush has nominated Buddy Lee to be the head of the CIA. Now that Goss has so completely eviscerated that agency that it is probably useless as an intelligence gathering tool, the only important qualification for director is that he be a complete political hack. I reckon the idea is to turn the CIA into a propaganda arm and kind of secret police and to provide tailor made “intelligence” to justify whatever the regime is up to and to discredit its enemies.

Let’s face it. The CIA was never very good at its supposed job. It was as wrong as wrong could be about the strength of the Soviet Union and didn’t see the break up of the archenemy coming. Like every agency, it has always been overly costly and ineffectual; therefore, no harm can come of parking some unqualified political appointees there. That is, unless your appointees are so utterly crooked and corrupt that they don’t even bother to cover their tracks very well.

I really hope that the scandal surrounding Goss involves hookers, especially homosexual hookers. Every scandal is that much more interesting when you throw in some gay sex for money. The sex part gets folks all riled up for some reason. You can steal, take bribes, drink babies’ blood and what have you to big yawns from the public and the media, but throw in some sex and you have a story with legs.

Another angle I’d like to see is that Mary McCarthy, who got fired from the CIA for supposedly leaking the news of the secret gulags, was really fired to put a chill on the CIA Inspector General’s investigation into Goss and Foggo’s connections to the convict Duke Cunningham, corruption suborning contractors, and hookers. That was McCarthy’s department, and it seems unlikely that she would even have known about the gulags. Pretty ham fisted, I’ll admit, but these are some arrogant SOB’s we’re talking about. I don’t have any evidence of this. I’m just saying that it would be a good story.