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| Porter Goss Resigns as CIA Director |
| 2006-05-05 |
| CIA chief Porter Goss abruptly resigned on Friday after less than two years on the job, and President George W. Bush thanked him for his candid advice during a time of transition. Neither man explained why Goss was leaving and no replacement was announced. The CIA fell under a newly created director of national intelligence as part of reforms enacted after intelligence failures related to the Sept. 11 attacks. “He’s led ably,” Bush said as he sat next to Goss in the Oval Office of the White House. Goss said he believed the CIA was “on a very even keel, sailing well.” |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #16 WaPo says it was a forced resignation. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-05-05 23:30 |
| #15 You mean we have 100k CIA employees to begin with? |
| Posted by: Phil 2006-05-05 21:49 |
| #14 Wow, 25K? Has anyone seen corroboration of this from another source? OS? That's freaking huge, so big it's hard to swallow in one go. Wow. Great, if true! |
| Posted by: Creregum Snolumble5147 2006-05-05 21:11 |
| #13 It's called adding through subtraction. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-05-05 21:06 |
| #12 It's being reported on FOX News Special Report that during his tenure, Goss culled 25,000 CIA employees, dropping the total from 100k to 75k. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-05-05 20:55 |
| #11 I knew this was coming last week. Negroponte was feeling the heat when he was being publicly challenged as being inept. Negroponte, the 9/11 Commission hire, simply fingered Goss as the reason. Ineptitude gets rewarded with more power. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-05-05 20:35 |
| #10 LGF has the goods on the asshole heckler McGovern - he's a well-funded professional Moonbat now. |
| Posted by: Jereth Slanter6969 2006-05-05 18:12 |
| #9 Ditto JAB |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-05-05 18:08 |
| #8 Hookergate? |
| Posted by: doc 2006-05-05 18:05 |
| #7 I think Rudy Guliani's name will get thrown around. Need to keep him free to run in '08. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2006-05-05 15:51 |
| #6 I think Rudy Guliani's name will get thrown around. But probably should be a military person to bring some credibility and discipline. Not sure about Franks being qualified but he is aggressive and understands how to use intelligence info. His book says good things about the agency people he worked with. I know little about the agency but I have been impressed by people I know who have worked there. However, over the last few years I have been very, very unimpressed by people like Larry Johnson, Valerie Plame, Mary McCarthy, Michael Scheuer and the guy McGovern who heckled Rumsfeld yesterday. Their behavior, which includes criminal leaking of secrets, makes me think the organization is unreformable and needs to be broken up. There seems to be no discipline and no sense of aggressiveness towards our enemies. We need people who accept that they do not make policy and follow lawful orders regardless of how they feel. The unmitigated gall of the people who failed to notice the AQ Khan network and clearly had little understanding of what Iran and Iraq -- 2 or our biggest enemies -- were up to. |
| Posted by: JAB 2006-05-05 15:22 |
| #5 Not Franks. Definitely not Franks. The confirmation hearings would be nothing but an extended investigation of who planned what in regard to the Iraq occupation, the force size question especially. Cant believe the admin wants that now. I bet there are other military candidates, though. |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2006-05-05 15:16 |
| #4 My bet is fingers in the till. That's why the #3 was fired and he was a Goss man with Cunningham links. Bush should make the next DCI military to assure integrity. Tommy Franks? Spook 86 mentions Mike Hayden. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-05-05 15:12 |
| #3 There is some speculation that he's involved with the Duke Cunningham scandal (bribes, hookers, etc). Otherwise, he apparantly was taking fire from inside the Agency while Czar Negroponte was absorbing a lot of his authority. Either way, the next CIA director nomination will allow the feeding frenzy on Iraq pre-war intel to continue. |
| Posted by: JAB 2006-05-05 14:59 |
| #2 Either they got some bad political dirt on Goss, or he is a walking dead man from some disease. The $64 question is if Bush will replace him with an even meaner hatchet man, to really scour the agency; or if he will give up and let them have one of their own Eli schoolboys to return to business as usual. Unfortunately, I suspect the latter. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-05-05 14:52 |
| #1 WTF? |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2006-05-05 14:37 |