# CIA to Purge Itself of "Officers Who Were Disloyal to Bush"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cia-to-purge-itself-of-officers-who-were-disloyal-to-bush/274788>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 14, 2004, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cia-to-purge-itself-of-officers-who-were-disloyal-to-bush/274788 "2004-11-14T23:45:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cia-to-purge-itself-of-officers-who-were-disloyal-to-bush/274788/61 "2004-11-16T08:52:05Z")

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> [@Jurph](#):
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> Joe Analyst watches the evening news. In fact, Joe Analyst is probably a newspaper junkie, reading Drudge, Ananova, The _Times_ (NY and DC), and so on.

I find it hard to believe that analysts are actually relying on consumer-grade news.

> [@](#):
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> He has to prepare slides in PowerPoint for his bosses’ approval, yea, up unto the highest echelons of management. So a statement that begins life in a painstakingly-wordsmithed report saying “There is no evidence to support the assertion that Saddam Hussein is actively developing WMDs” gets boiled down by his bosses into:
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> ```auto
> 
> IRAQ WMDs:
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> - Long-standing program
> - Probable large stockpiles
> - No evidence of active development
> 
> ```
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> …and a stock photo of a SCUD-B missile launcher painted desert tan to fill up the right side of the chart.

This I find more plausible. [Much, much more plausible.](http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/making.html)

More seriously, your post fits in with my own understanding of large organizations, especially ones headed by political toffs who never have to worry about such things as profits or actually making a living in the real world. (Granted, some corporations are just as disconnected, but those jokers end up in receivership before too long.)

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**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cia-to-purge-itself-of-officers-who-were-disloyal-to-bush/274788/62 "2004-11-16T12:47:03Z")

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I’m not ignoring you, I’m just en route for the next while.

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