Date published: 2006/05/05
The BBC says:
US President George Bush has unexpectedly announced that the head of the CIA, Porter Goss, is stepping down.
No reason was given for the move, which was presented at a hastily arranged press call at the White House, where the two men exchanged compliments.
Mr Goss has served in the role for less than two years, since being given the job of reforming the agency after a series of intelligence failures.
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There have also been rumblings of discontent at the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia.He upset some staff by bringing in several top aides from Congress, who were thought by some in the CIA to be too political.
Several high-level CIA staff have resigned recently.
Goss, a total political hack, has been a complete disaster for the CIA, but this is the normal standard of the Bush administration, which seems keen on proving how bad government can really be.
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