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New C.I.A. Chief Tells Workers to Back Administration Policies
By DOUGLAS JEHL

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 - Porter J. Goss, the new intelligence chief, has told Central Intelligence Agency employees that their job is to "support the administration and its policies in our work,'' a copy of an internal memorandum shows.

"As agency employees we do not identify with, support or champion opposition to the administration or its policies," Mr. Goss said in the memorandum, which was circulated late on Monday. He said in the document that he was seeking "to clarify beyond doubt the rules of the road."

While his words could be construed as urging analysts to conform with administration policies, Mr. Goss also wrote, "We provide the intelligence as we see it - and let the facts alone speak to the policymaker.''

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You're goddamn right I said Gestapo.

If you listen, not even particularly closely, to the public debate you find the word "fact" now means "that which I assert to support my position."

This is so clearly an instruction to gather only that evidence that tends to support a desired decision, the denial of the fact is an embarrassment.