New CIA chief Porter Goss, an extremely partisan Republican appointed by President Bush this fall, is accomplishing his task of overhauling the agency quite successfully. Unfortunately, his success is actually a failure as the only people who he is pressuring to leave are the competent, yet not partisan, analysts. The New York Times Douglas Jehl reports:

Two more senior officials of the Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine service are stepping down, intelligence officials said Wednesday, in the latest sign of upheaval in the agency under its new chief, Porter J. Goss.

As the chiefs of the Europe and Far East divisions, the two officials have headed spying operations in some of the most important regions of the world and were among a group known as the barons in the highest level of clandestine service, the Directorate of Operations.

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A former intelligence official described the two as "very senior guys" who were stepping down because they did not feel comfortable with new management.

In a memorandum to agency employees last week, Mr. Goss warned that more personnel changes were coming as part of what he described as an effort to rebuild the ability of the agency to perform its core mission of stealing secrets.

Goss also recently prepared a memorandum essentially stating that any disagreement with the President would not be tolerated. In my mind, Goss's partisan actions should not be tolerated and he should be removed from office.