You heard it here first

Business Week is asking questions about the May 5, 2006 Executive Order that granted the President's authority to "John Negroponte "to authorize a company to conceal activities related to national security. (See 15 U.S.C. 78m(b)(3)(A)) " Such activities would normally suffer disclosure under Federal Securities Laws.

They don't go as far as I did, noting that this EO was signed after the government certainly knew of the coming USAToday article on the phone records database, but they're definitely going in that direction.

Also, I hadn't made the connection that this EO was signed, just coincidentally, the morning that Porter Goss decided to resign. That would also mean that news of the coming USAToday story on the phone records database was probably bouncing around the White House just as Goss decided he had to resign, immediately. Curious, eh?

It makes me wonder if that could have been the cause of the "turf battle" and resignation. Could it be that Goss, upon finding out about this program (perhaps more details than we know, or maybe another affiliated program,) felt he had to resign immediately? No proof, just a theory.