THE WEASELS HAVE WON

It was back in October 2004, in Porter At The Pass, that we first discussed the true nature of the CIA:

Most folks think the CIA is a right-wing outfit. It is not. The CIA has been dominated by incompetent left-wing hyper-liberals for years.

These CIA lefties – known as "Rogue Weasels" by their more competent counterparts – were conducting a covert war against the Bush Administration by leaking damaging classified information to leftwing journalists in the press.

When George Bush finally got rid of George Tenet and installed Porter Goss as CIA Director, the weasels began a covert war against their own agency – as discussed in The Rogue Weasels Club last December.  That's because Porter was trying to root them out.

One of the chief weasels Porter was able to dump was Deputy Director of Operations Stephen Kappes, who had been a principal conduit of classified information leaked to Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and Walter Pincus.  

How the weasels struck back and got their revenge on Porter was explained in Porter and Casey last month.

Now this week, we have final confirmation of the weasels' triumph.  Walter "Kneepads" Pincus authored the most incredibly fawning puff-piece on Monday (June 19) in the Washington Post, headlined Kappes Is Expected To Boost CIA Morale.

Pincus calls him "a famed operative," "a legendary CIA clandestine operative."  Kappes became "legendary" among his fellow weasels for stabbing Porter Goss, his boss, in the back, and "famed" at the WaPo for treasonously leaking classified documents to the press.

Kappes belongs in jail – but instead he is now Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.  The weasels have won.

Pincus mentions that Kappes had conducted CIA "operations against Iran."  We can see how successful those were.  They all failed and badly. 

Kappes has neither the ability nor the desire to "run operations" against the Mullacracy, and indeed is doing his best to avoid them.  It was Kappes who organized the defeat of Senator Rick Santorum's bill this week authorizing $100 million for support of pro-democracy groups in Iran.

The CIA would be in charge of a lot of that money and be tasked with helping the pro-democracy groups to achieve regime change in Iran, but Kappes wanted no part of it.  So he got his squishy buddies at State to write a letter to all Senators arguing against the Santorum bill.

Then he called Condi Rice and asked her to personally intervene – which she did, by calling Senator Joe Biden and asking him to spike the bill.

So you can see what a disaster Kappes and the Weasel CIA have now become.  It's going to get worse before and if it gets better.  Bush and Condi have been neutered by Left-Wing Langley.  Only Cheney and Rumsfeld are resisting.

Expect Kappes to target them soon, and viciously.