A Defense Department spokesman would not confirm Wednesday that Boykin was planning to retire, but he declined to deny it either. “There have been no announcements about his retirement,” said the spokesman, Maj. David Smith. A U.S. intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity owing to the sensitivity of the subject, said that Boykin currently was still on the job. But word around the Pentagon was that Gates would ask Boykin to go, this official said. Consultants who work with the intelligence and Special Operations community said it was all but certain that Boykin was following Cambone out the door. “If you’re getting rid of Cambone, you almost certainly have to get rid of Boykin,” says Philip Giraldi, a former CIA counterterrorism official who stays in touch with the community. “They’re hand in glove. Gates feels it all went out of control, that they’re doing too many things in too many places.”
Newsweek
Lt. Gen. William Boykin, deputy undersecretary of intelligence made world wide headlines in 2003 when he appeared in churches making remarks such as:
…America’s enemy was ‘a spiritual enemy … called Satan,’ ” and said ” ‘[t]he enemy will only be defeated, if we come against them in the name of Jesus.’ “Â
God elevated George W. Bush to the presidency. “Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him,†he would say. “I tell you this morning that he’s in the White House because God put him there.â€
Melissa Rogers has more about Gates wanting Boykin gone.
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