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CIA boss in surprise resignation ~ Mr Goss said: "I believe the agency is on a very even keel,....
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| Friday, 5 May 2006, 18:45 GMT 19:45 UK
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Posted on 05/05/2006 11:54:47 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
CIA boss in surprise resignation
![Porter Goss announces his resignation next to George Bush](http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41642000/jpg/_41642118_handshake_afp203b.jpg)
Porter Goss's resignation surprised friends and pundits alike
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US President George Bush has unexpectedly announced that the head of the CIA, Porter Goss, is stepping down. No reason was given for the move. Mr Goss has served in the role for less than two years, since being chosen by Mr Bush to replace George Tenet.
He was given the job of reforming the agency after a series of intelligence failures, particularly in relation to the 11 September attacks. Mr Bush said Mr Goss had "a tough job and he led ably". Mr Goss said: "I believe the agency is on a very even keel, sailing well, and I honestly believe that we have improved dramatically." He praised the president for giving him the "latitude" to reform the intelligence service. "I honestly can report to you, sir, that we are safer for your efforts," he said. Discontent The BBC's correspondent in Washington, Justin Webb, says the announcement came as a bolt from the blue. While there have been several changes at the top of the Bush administration recently, and more are expected, Mr Goss's name was never mentioned.
Friends of the former Republican congressman said they were hugely surprised. There has been speculation that Mr Goss was not happy with the reduced access to the president he was afforded after the appointment of John Negroponte to oversee the work of all the intelligence agencies, our correspondent adds. When he took the job he used to present the president with a daily intelligence briefing, but that task has since been taken away. However there have also been rumblings of discontent at the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Several high-level CIA staff have resigned recently.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bush43; cia; goss; portergoss; resignation; term2
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To: Hildy
"Apparently, he's going to be implicated in the new Duke Cunningham HOOKERGATE scandal...can we get ONE good man in Washington?"
Not if they've been in DC longer than a week!
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posted on
05/05/2006 12:09:47 PM PDT
by
gimmefive
(CIA=Can I Arrogate)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Can anyone here convince me that the CIA is a pro-American agency? I am beginning to think they are the enemy we should fear most.
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posted on
05/05/2006 12:11:54 PM PDT
by
Niteranger68
("Only 4 out of 3 Democrats actually vote.")
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
We'll know more if he gets the.....
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posted on
05/05/2006 12:12:57 PM PDT
by
SandfleaCSC
( “Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Saw some of that at Big Blue....sky, mountains, ocean ...the hell with hacking around in some office.
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posted on
05/05/2006 12:14:31 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned)
To: McCallum AB3
Interesting that the best the President could say was that Goss led "ably." Yes, rather like Mr. Peterman's congratulations to Elaine on "a job.... done".
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posted on
05/05/2006 12:15:57 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(Muslim Unitarian:There is no God but Abraham's, and Mohammed said he was his prophet.)
To: Kenny Bunkport
I believe there's something in the water in DC. Every member of congress lives the lifestyle of a millionaire, even if he doesn't become one. Each one is surrounded by a cadre of adoring sycophants. It must be very intoxicating. I believe that at least some go to DC to try to improve things. Few do.
To: RacerF150
Can anyone here convince me that the CIA is a pro-American agency? I am beginning to think they are the enemy we should fear most.I'm right there with you. Maybe the President should consider cordoning Langley with a company of Rangers and then cleaning the place out the old fashioned way.
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posted on
05/05/2006 12:22:42 PM PDT
by
AngryJawa
({NRA}{IDPA})
To: Defiant; Hildy; Marine_Uncle; woodb01
To: AngryJawa; Marine_Uncle; Hildy
I think the Negropointe organization will pick over the carcasse to find the remaining useful parts.....<
Management 101....
To: Jim Verdolini
I understand Tom Delay is looking for work Hilarious, now there is a man who can clean house. ;-)
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posted on
05/05/2006 12:27:59 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Some very good points made in that referenced article. One response on that other thread, I found interesting, and surely many of us could go along with it. In essence why the heck has not GWB in five years taken a much sterner approach with the CIA. If the Clintoons arranged for so many to be fired and then have their goon squads hired, why couldn't this POTUS had done the same thing.
Then I can ask myself. The CIA is not supposed to be a political hot potatoe. No administration should play with it, as Clintoon did. So as usual, play fair and get screwed.
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posted on
05/05/2006 12:33:40 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I really wish he would have said he's leaving because the place is a stinking cesspool filled with former soviet apologists, state department appeasement types, politically correct weenies, liberals, democrats and other deviants who have no business in the intelligence business. "You see", he might have said, "when we're fighting evil to win, you have to have American patriots who have no agenda other than victory for the United States. As it is now, we don't have that, and I am stepping down to call attention to this problem"
To: Defiant
Oh, Oh. This sounds a little like "You did a great job Gossie"
To: mozarky2
Seems like Goss was doing too good of a job and the Washington insiders didn't like it. I think the President has to nominate Jack Bauer.
To: AngryJawa
I'm right there with you. Maybe the President should consider cordoning Langley with a company of Rangers and then cleaning the place out the old fashioned way. Or at least have several of these bastards brought up on charges of treason. I happen to think that skank-ho Valerie Plame epitomizes the majority of CIA employees. No "patriot" would act the way she has.
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05/05/2006 12:43:50 PM PDT
by
Niteranger68
("Only 4 out of 3 Democrats actually vote.")
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I think the Negropointe organization will pick over the carcasse to find the remaining useful parts.....That's fine, but I think it would be a good idea to salt the earth after the pickin's done to keep it from re-growing.
Oh, and find a way to keep the more dangerous human resources there on a leash.
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posted on
05/05/2006 12:52:42 PM PDT
by
AngryJawa
({NRA}{IDPA})
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Based on the number of abject p's former CIA clowns coming around spouting their whiny crap, I'd say his work is done here. As long as he bullied out all the diversity quilt losers Clinton packed the agency with, we'll be okay.
To: AngryJawa
salt the earth after the pickin's done to keep it from re-growingYes, good idea...
To: All
"There has been speculation that Mr Goss was not happy with the reduced access to the president he was afforded after the appointment of John Negroponte to oversee the work of all the intelligence agencies, our correspondent adds"
Negroponte SAT on the Saddam docs that jveritas has been translating for 2 YEARS. He released all kinds of statements about how they were useless, and maybe just a bit historically interesting, but worthless for anything else.
Then he was backed into a corner, told TO HIS FACE for the 4th time by Bush to release the documents, he did a 180, started saying he couldn't because of the intel they were being used to gain.
Still pushed, he FINALLY started releasing some at a time.
Now Goss leaves because Negroponte is keeping him from talking to Bush.
So the guy that was hiding the Saddam docs was ALSO keeping the guy that Bush appointed to clear out the riff-raff, from reporting in.
Yeah... someone REAAALY need to look into that guy.
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posted on
05/05/2006 1:17:34 PM PDT
by
FreedomNeocon
(Better to take what they can throw at us now,rather than take what they promise to throw at us later)
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