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As everyone knows, heads are rolling at the CIA. Good. The more the merrier. You can't run a government when the people who run the institutions of government have their own agenda. With Condoleeza Rice moving to State, James Glassman expects more of the same.

Porter Goss, the new CIA director, is cleaning house. It's about time. The next step is to apply his strategy--call it Gossification--to the rest of the federal bureaucracy. The next target has to be State. My brief experience on an advisory board examining public diplomacy revealed foreign service officers seething with contempt for Bush, whom they consider an uncultured, unilateralist dolt. One of the first tasks of the newly nominated secretary, Condoleezza Rice, must be to lay down the law, Goss-style, at State. How to do that when bureaucrats have the equivalent of academic tenure? Make their lives miserable, transfer them or re-educate them. But don't leave them in place.


We can only hope he's right.