New C.I.A. Chief Tells Workers to Back Administration Policies. (New York Times ) This missive can be understood on many levels. It is not difficult to understand that, given the purges Goss has embarked upon at the CIA over the seven weeks since his arrival, disloyalty to the dysadministration will continue to be dealt with by dismissal. Secondly, during the first administration, Bush and Cheney built alternative ‘pipelines’ to receive the selective intelligence they wanted to hear to fit their agenda, in so doing alienating the CIA and relegating its analysis function to obsolescence. Now Goss is making sure that the dysadministration does not have to bypass CIA channels, since they will be in accord with Bush policy. Tensions between the new CIA leadership and senior career intelligence officers have never been so poor; it will be fascinating to watch as they intensify even further under Goss and make the CIA even more irrelevant than it has already become…