Porter Goss resigns.....

[Ocotillo]

talkingpointsmemo (http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/008375.php)

Goss was rumored to be linked to the Watergate hooker scandal. He issued a statement a couple of days back saying he had not attended any such parties.

Let's see, a Kennedy appears to have driven under the influence and crashes a car.

The Director of the CIA suddenly resigns without immediate explanation amid rumors of being in the middle of a defense contractor bribery scandal involving hookers.

Any idea which thread will be longer?

[Ocotillo]

Which has more direct impact on the American public by the way?

[valluco]

the rats keep jumping ship...

[CubanMustGo]

http://www.rockthefreeworld.com/photos/rats_leaving_ship.jpg

[xrayzebra]

Okay, now everyone read the above post. Now we know which way the
media is going to go. Now to apply the same standards of Clinton, he got
piece of tail, it was his business so why is everyone worried. He did it in
his off-duty time. ho-hum!

[valluco]

:rolleyes Clinton? Here we go again with Clinton.

[xrayzebra]

talkingpointsmemo (http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/008375.php)

Goss was rumored to be linked to the Watergate hooker scandal. He issued a statement a couple of days back saying he had not attended any such parties.

Let's see, a Kennedy appears to have driven under the influence and crashes a car.

The Director of the CIA suddenly resigns without immediate explanation amid rumors of being in the middle of a defense contractor bribery scandal involving hookers.

Any idea which thread will be longer?

That is what Clinton has to do with his resignation. Have you read
any of the post?

[Ocotillo]

Okay, now everyone read the above post. Now we know which way the
media is going to go. Now to apply the same standards of Clinton, he got
piece of tail, it was his business so why is everyone worried. He did it in
his off-duty time. ho-hum!

The hooker equation is simply salacious. The bad part is the defense contractors involved with these "poker parties" are part of the same crew that was bribing Duke Cunningham. If Porter Goss had something going with a hooker at one time, that's one thing. If the hooker was provided to him in return for a favor, that's quite another.

[Yonivore]

It probably has more to do with this (http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1191401,00.html) than hookers (After all, we're not talking about John "Porn-on-the-laptop" Deutch):

It's more than a bureaucratic battle. Ever since John Negroponte was appointed Director of National Intelligence a year ago and given the task of coordinating the nation's myriad spy agencies, he has been diluting the power and prestige of the best known of them all, the Central Intelligence Agency. From day one, he supplanted the CIA Director as the President's principal intelligence adviser, in charge of George W. Bush's daily briefing. Other changes followed, all originating in the law that created the DNI — and all traumatic for CIA fans. But now, in a little noticed move, Negroponte is signaling that he is moving still more responsibility from the CIA to his own office, including control over the analysis of terrorist groups and threats.
The CIA was badly in need of reform and it was a good move to start shrinking its power. This is one of the reasons that so many CIA spooks have been leaking to the media left and right. They are losing a very nasty bureaucratic turf war. Combined with their own political and/or ideological leanings, this is more than enough of a reason (for them, anyway) to leak. One of Goss's main jobs, as I understand it, was to fight this bureaucratic war, clean up the mess, and crackdown on the leakers.

It remains to be seen whether or not the agencies that replace Langley are any better.

[Ocotillo]

I have also read that Goss was to be the hatchet man and because of the ill feelings that would cause, he would then be replaced to improve morale but the deed would be accomplished (reforming).

From your post ^^^, I am not sure if you are implying he is leaving because he is unhappy with the loss of power or if you are saying what I said in the first paragraph.

It appears the idea to resign comes from Goss. Otherwise, the administration would have had a successor picked out already.

I smell scandal.

[Yonivore]

I have also read that Goss was to be the hatchet man and because of the ill feelings that would cause, he would then be replaced to improve morale but the deed would be accomplished (reforming).

From your post ^^^, I am not sure if you are implying he is leaving because he is unhappy with the loss of power or if you are saying what I said in the first paragraph.

It appears the idea to resign comes from Goss. Otherwise, the administration would have had a successor picked out already.

I smell scandal.
I think he's done his job and, in doing so, has severly compromised his ability to continue in that position. Time to go sit on the porch and watch Langley burn from a distance.

Considering the fact Negroponte is gutting the agency, Goss is probably not losing any sleep over the matter.

Your olfactory glands are acting up.

[Ocotillo]

As Drudge likes to say......

developing

[Yonivore]

I smell the strategery of a misunderstimated President.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

What the shit does Clinton have to do with the HEAD OF THE CIA RESIGNING for unsaid reasons?


I think he's con......serrrrvative