CIA Resents Bad Morale Suggestion
By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers.
If part of the reason President-elect Barack Obama wants an outsider to head the CIA is because of bad morale, then somebody might need to check with Langley insiders. They say spirits are up. And now, they are trying to fight back with some facts. "We've read a lot over the past few days about the status of morale at CIA. A lot of this appears to be coming from has-beens, wannabes, or never-weres," spokesman Mark Mansfield tells us. "Unnamed sources who suggest morale is low don't have any idea what's going on now. And those of us who work here are at a loss, wondering what basis they have for making such comments."
Insiders say morale can be measured—in part by the CIA's attrition rate. When Mike Hayden took over as director in 2006, the attrition rate was nearly 6 percent. In two years, it was down to 4.1 percent, the agency's lowest rate on record. The agency's resignation rate is currently 1.8 percent, another historic low. And the CIA is on track to meet a presidential hiring directive to double the number of positions in certain job categories, such as clandestine officers.
While it now appears that Hayden will be replaced by embattled Obama pick Leon Panetta or somebody else, many think the poor morale hit is unfair. Says one senior official, "That's not the sense Mike [Hayden] gets when he eats lunch with employees in the cafeteria."
As for Hayden, the mood around him seems to have shifted to a resignation that his days as chief are numbered. "Whenever or whatever happens, Mike Hayden will be able to leave the CIA with his head held high. He is respected and admired over there because he has stood up for CIA employees rather than point fingers or throw anyone under a bus . . . including any of his predecessors," said one senior intelligence official.
Tags: CIA | Barack Obama | Michael Hayden
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Anonymous?
Sounds like a sourpuss to me! The government is not in conspiracy to kill off it's functional members. USA haters need to take a hike! Comments like the one above border on treason in my eyes!
Bad Morale? It's the people they destroy who have bad morale!
It's the American people whose morale is down, because the CIA still exists. It's an outlaw agency which has stirred up trouble worldwide in the name of American citizens, who detest them and what they stand for. They've murdered American citizens and popularly elected foreign president, even their own employees in the name of "national security". They themselves are the GREATEST THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY there is. They even had the audacity to murder JFK while George Bush Sr was their director, and the whole world knows it. If disbanded, along with "Homeland Security" (they prop the gates of America open for illegals), Americans would not miss them whatsoever. They provide NO POSITIVE ASSISTANCE for the citizens of America, just do the bidding of corrupt people like the Clintons and Bushes, Kissinger, Chertnoff, the FED, banks, corrupt military brass, etc. WORST OF ALL, they have cornered the drug trade worldwide to pay for their illicit crimes against all humanity. The organization should be disbanded and those involved in Bush-sanctioned murders should be prosecuted.
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