Why Porter, Why?
Porter Goss suddenly resigned after almost exactly a year on the job.
NOTICE THERE WAS NO SUCCESSOR WAITING IN THE WINGS. This was a sudden move, the question is who initiated it and why.
Right now only speculation as to why, but here's a few possibilities.
1) Josh Marshall has been talking about the Wilkes/Cunningham hookers and limos scandal. Apparently, the guy Goss put in charge of procurement,Dusty Foggo, was unqualified and a lifelong friend of briber Wilkes. Goss actually felt it necessary to issue a denial as to whether he was at any of Wilkes' Poker and hookers parties. Dusty Foggo was, and Duke Cunningham has been cooperating with investigators.(ThinkProgress has alot more.)
2) Haven't seen it mentioned yet, but there was the recent firing of Mary McCarthy, announced in the leaked memo from Goss. She was fired for improper contacts with a reporter, but Goss et al, tried to pin the leak of the secret prisons on her. She denied any involvement in the leak.
3) There's this very weird case of CIA officer "Jerry Doe" who is suing the CIA for wrongful termination after he claims he was fired for not lying on Iraq intel.
4) Also, there's a secret prisons and torture investigation taking place at the UN today.
Not to mention all the other stuff, torture, renditions, etc. I smell a very big story coming. I don't know. I'll keep looking. These are just off the top of my head. He's only held the post a year after all.
From Laura Rozen: CIA public affairs just told me they will be releasing a statement this afternoon.(She also says there may be photos from the "poker" parties.)
The first blogger consensus response seems to be that it's related to the Wilkes/Cunningham/Foggo bribery scandals. It's so nice they added hookers in to keep the interest up.
(And how thankful is RI rep. Kennedy about now. He was all the news all day until this broke.)
Also: Goodbye, Scott McClellan. Already held your press briefing, you picked a good day to leave. And Snowjob, welcome. My first question is, "Is it true that the president's hand picked appointee to head the CIA was involved in a bribery scandal that endangered the national security of the country?"
NOTICE THERE WAS NO SUCCESSOR WAITING IN THE WINGS. This was a sudden move, the question is who initiated it and why.
Right now only speculation as to why, but here's a few possibilities.
1) Josh Marshall has been talking about the Wilkes/Cunningham hookers and limos scandal. Apparently, the guy Goss put in charge of procurement,Dusty Foggo, was unqualified and a lifelong friend of briber Wilkes. Goss actually felt it necessary to issue a denial as to whether he was at any of Wilkes' Poker and hookers parties. Dusty Foggo was, and Duke Cunningham has been cooperating with investigators.(ThinkProgress has alot more.)
2) Haven't seen it mentioned yet, but there was the recent firing of Mary McCarthy, announced in the leaked memo from Goss. She was fired for improper contacts with a reporter, but Goss et al, tried to pin the leak of the secret prisons on her. She denied any involvement in the leak.
3) There's this very weird case of CIA officer "Jerry Doe" who is suing the CIA for wrongful termination after he claims he was fired for not lying on Iraq intel.
4) Also, there's a secret prisons and torture investigation taking place at the UN today.
Not to mention all the other stuff, torture, renditions, etc. I smell a very big story coming. I don't know. I'll keep looking. These are just off the top of my head. He's only held the post a year after all.
From Laura Rozen: CIA public affairs just told me they will be releasing a statement this afternoon.(She also says there may be photos from the "poker" parties.)
The first blogger consensus response seems to be that it's related to the Wilkes/Cunningham/Foggo bribery scandals. It's so nice they added hookers in to keep the interest up.
(And how thankful is RI rep. Kennedy about now. He was all the news all day until this broke.)
Also: Goodbye, Scott McClellan. Already held your press briefing, you picked a good day to leave. And Snowjob, welcome. My first question is, "Is it true that the president's hand picked appointee to head the CIA was involved in a bribery scandal that endangered the national security of the country?"
posted by mikevotes at
1:16 PM
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I was thinking the same thing about Kennedy. Thought he's apparently giving a press briefing at 3pm.
I just saw Kristol on Fox saying that something big was behind this. And no sooner did he predict the WH to jump into action did Chris Wallace cut in with news from a 'senior White House source' that this was all part of the 'shakeup'. It was as if Rove was watching Kristol elude to something sinister and jumped into action.
Spin on disco Pork Chop.
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zen, at 1:48 PM
I'm still laughing at Pork Chop.
We got a little development I put above this post. It's related to a WaPo story tomorrow.
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mikevotes, at 2:09 PM
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