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Bill Kristol: Porter Goss Firing an 'Outrage'
Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol said Sunday that the White House's decision to fire CIA Director Porter Goss on Friday is an outrage, especially since Goss was actually implementing Bush's anti-leaks agenda at the agency. "I think it's an outrage," Kristol said on "Fox News Sunday." "It's a terrible signal to conservatives anywhere in the State Department, Defense Department, CIA, anywhere in the federal government who are trying to carry out the president's agenda against the bureaucracy, that, unfortunately, the White House is not going to stand behind them." Kristol said Goss "took a lot of heat from the permanent bureaucracy at the agency. He fired someone two weeks ago for leaking, which the president wanted."
Story Continues Below "And his reward was to be fired," he added. The influential conservative predicted that the CIA will now become "a mini State Department." "Everyone will be happy. They will replicate the career bureaucrats who are in charge, and anyone who believes in aggressively carrying out President Bush's foreign policy is going to be worried now that he'll stick his head out" and "won't get backed up by the White House."
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