[FreedomNeocon]

I still don't trust Negroponte. Sat on those Saddam docs (that are STILL being ignored by the MSM) for years.

Still I like the general... just going to see how it all plays out.

I'm starting to see that it might be a Rovian plan for the elections. You saw how the dimocraps jumped into the usual mode (and the usual republican sell outs of course).

Anyway, the topic is again on an issue of today and "How would R do it" versus "How would D do it".

They are telling everyone why they can't be trusted, and (more importantly for Rove's purposes) reminding Republicans just how bad the libs are. Just how crazy and beholden to that lunatic crowd they are these days.

The Hayden choice is just another ingredient to flavor it and make it 'pop' for the Dems and MSM to (predictably) think they need to plaster this wall to wall, only to be 'shocked' later to find it totally blows up in their face come election time (or some new 'polls' come in.. ugh)

I liked Goss... or at least liked what he was supposed to be there to do. But given the replacement, the circumstance, and his previous comments about not wanting to be there long... I'm at least wiling to hold off and see how things play out in the next week or two.

[LSUfan]

Negroponte is a disaster. Doesn't say much for Bush's selection process for a career diplomat with no direct experience in intelligence matters to have been selected for that position. Goss was trying to make the analysts pull overseas tours of duty and get closer to the operators and the analysts went squealing like stuck pigs to Negroponte--and it worked.

The DNI was a poor solution to the problem from the start. Government bureaucracies don't solve problems, they magnify them. That is what has happened here.

[lonedawg]

I loved Porter Goss, he was doing the job. I'm afraid he got caught up in the prostitute thing, this a gut instinct judging from the abrupt resignation It was reminiscent of Newts' resignation.

[FreeReign]

I still don't trust Negroponte. Sat on those Saddam docs (that are STILL being ignored by the MSM) for years. Still I like the general... just going to see how it all plays out.

Negroponte is one of the good guys.

Nowhere is it documented that Negroponte refused to follow the presidnet's orders on the document release.