] The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter
] Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have
] been disloyal to President George W. Bush or of leaking
] damaging information to the media about the conduct of
] the Iraq war and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according
] to knowledgeable sources.
]
]
] "The agency is being purged on instructions from the
] White House," said a former senior CIA official who
] maintains close ties to both the agency and to the White
] House. "Goss was given instructions ... to get rid of
] those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is
] looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and
] people who have been obstructing the president's agenda."

[ Lets call this article an alert... something to keep an eye on. I'm not at all convinced there's cridibility here, but any accusation of this type is worth keeping an eye on. -k]

CIA plans to purge its agency