Posted on 05/05/2006 11:33:14 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Goss quits as CIA chief
By Joseph Curl and Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published May 6, 2006
CIA Director Porter J. Goss resigned abruptly yesterday, leaving a post he held for less than two years and becoming the latest high-level administration official to be ensnared in a White House shake-up.
Mr. Goss, widely unpopular among senior officials in the intelligence community and blamed for repeated leaks in recent months, called President Bush yesterday morning to offer his resignation. "I've accepted it," the president said.
Yesterday's announcement was hastily arranged, with the two men speaking briefly to reporters in the Oval Office, just before Mr. Bush departed for an afternoon bike ride.
Mr. Bush dodged questions about a possible successor, but Time magazine reported on its Web site late last night that the president planned to name Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden to the post, possibly as soon as Monday.
Gen. Hayden, the principal deputy director of national intelligence, previously served as director of the National Security Agency and was one of the chief architects of the Bush administration's warrantless wiretap program.
Among others mentioned as possible replacements were Richard Armitage, the former deputy secretary of state who administration officials say has been lobbying for the job; Frances Fragos Townsend, Mr. Bush's homeland security adviser; David Shedd, chief of staff to Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte; and Mary Margaret Graham, Mr. Negroponte's deputy for intelligence collection.
The president yesterday praised the departing CIA director for his service.
"I appreciate his integrity. ... Porter's tenure at the CIA was one of transition, where he's helped this agency become integrated into the intelligence community. And that was a tough job, and he's led ably," Mr. Bush said. "He honors the proud history of the CIA.....
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Very nice It looks like Rummy is directing it all!! |
Careful Richard Armitage, has the questionable baggage that has never been clarified...Vietnam POW's
So who knew??!! Shoulda done less partying and more networking!
What about Armitage and the Vietnam POW's?? What's THAT story?
google "Armitage and the Vietnam POW's!" there is a dark cloud swilling around this man and it never has been clarified!
Conspiracy or an ounce of truth whatever, Armitage has always been suspect!
thanks.
One current and two retired senior CIA officials told Government Executive that (as noted last week by reporter Laura Rozen in The American Prospect's TAPPED blog) the relationship of Wilkes and Foggo--who the CIA's Web site declares is "under cover and cannot be named at this time," even though he is pictured and identified on a federal charity web page--has been a subject of increasing concern by some at Langley.
Wilkes-Foggo connctions:
Those who know Wilkes describe him as gregarious and ambitious, a person who can make friends easily and toss them aside just as quickly.
Born in San Diego County in 1954, Wilkes graduated from Hilltop High School in 1972, along with his football teammate and best friend Kyle Dustin "Dusty" Foggo, currently third-in-command at the Central Intelligence Agency. Wilkes and Foggo were roommates at San Diego State University, were best men at each other's weddings and named their sons after each other.
Wilkes' career in political relations dates to the early 1980s, shortly after Foggo joined the CIA. Foggo was sent to Honduras to work with the Contra rebels who were trying to topple the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, according to sources within the CIA.
More here:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20051204-9999-1n4adcs.html
Kyle is the one on top (no pun intended)
"Something happened," neo-conservative magazine editor William Kristol said on Fox News this afternoon. "It's going to be a bad few days. We're going to discover something ... It will be something not good for the Bush Administration."
Fox News actually got a phone call from a "top White House official" during Kristol's damning comments, and Kristol was cut off.
A bump to review Kyle Dusty Foggo's connections.
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