“”"”"”"”5. RWE:

Unfortunately, when a bureaucracy purges undesirables they will be, more likely than not, the people who are pointing out the real problems and otherwise failing to “get with the program.””"”"”"”"

This is correct. My late father was purged from the CIA after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. My father had nothing to do with bay of Pigs or Cuba, as his focus was the Soviet Union and European communism. Oh, and unlike Plame, my father was an actual spy.

Does Leon Panetta have the desire and ability to purge the CIA from the top? And, if so, will he know to find out first who the really effective CIA folks are whose first loyalty is to Country, and whom he can move in to replace the purged?

Frankly, I have more confidence in being able to graft workable wings on pigs.