Bush Personnel Announcement at 1:45 EDT (Porter Goss Resigns from CIA)

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[Rutles4Ever]

Press conference at 1:45

[Semper Paratus]

If the CIA put as much effort into foreign intelligence work as they do infighting we would be on top of the world.

[Crawdad]

IIRC, Goss was the first one to take the lie-detector exam.

[kabar]

There is no doubt that the CIA, as an institution, is upset with Bush. They have been waging war against him since 9/11. Iraq, Wilson, McCarthy, etc.plus the appointment of an intelligence czar are manifestations of the turmoil within. Goss couldn't singlehandedly reform the organization. I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of former CIA Directors and others went directly to the WH or Bush 41 claiming that the organization was in chaos and that Goss needed to be replaced.

[Perdogg]

I want someone who is ex-DIA.

[gondramB]

>>I know, just couldn't resist throwing in illegal immigration. I'd guess he cannot cleanup in Langley, to many deeply entrenched libs/socialists/communists/traitors.
I hope I didn't misspell something in this post.<<

CNN is floating ideas too --Mary McCarthy, Water Boarding/Torture or that the CIA directors job is greatly reduced.

[Professional Engineer]

KRYTEN: I have a medium-sized fire axe buried in my spinal column. That sort of thing can really put a crimp on your day.

I hate days like this.

[Chgogal]

President Bush did not have to accept the resignation. This is a very interesting development though. The CIA has been a very big disappointment and really not worth the $30 billion we tax payers are forced to spend on the institution. The CIA doesn't even know how to track illegal yellow cake transfers as made obvious by the Plame/Wilson affair. The CIA didn't even have "feet on the ground" in the January 2001 (or was it 2000) Al Qaeda meeting in Malaysia.

The only thing that comes out of the CIA are book writers and traitors. I too wouldn't want to head such an operation. It's a loser and probably impossible to change. The institution is full of liberal civil servants who are almost impossible to get fire. Sheesh, one of their "secret agents" used their real name in Italy to collect "points" during a mission. That was how Italy tracked the super secret kidnapping of important Al Qaeda terrorists. How would you like to be responsible for that agency?

[Mo1]

Oh crap .. why is he leaving?

[bonfire]

[CNN is stretching to find something!]

Well, so are we!!

[ClancyJ]

Ok, what if there were serious, serious threats on Goss or his family? How to handle it? Just resign the position. Then a new person comes in.

[xzins]

If Goss if Florida, then he better get down there quickly.

[lugsoul]

Yep. Some reporting had Goss attending the parties back when he was a Rep. Much reporting had his #3 at CIA, Dusty Foggo, involved. CIA spokesperson (Millerwise) issues a blanket denial (absurd, etc) for Goss. No denial for Foggo.

This stuff gets reported. The hotels get subpoenas. Then he resigns with no replacement? It does fit.

[bwteim]

See
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1627395/posts?page=394#394

Is he still a Fla resident...

[txrangerette]

With no evidence of such, what a nasty thing to post.

[Semper Paratus]

It's a loser and probably impossible to change.

Dismantling the CIA would be addition by subtraction.

[RobFromGa]

CIA Director Porter Goss has resigned, President Bush said Friday.

Bush called Goss' tenure one of transition.

"He has led ably," Bush said from the Oval Office.

Goss, a former member of Congress, has "helped make this country a safer place," Bush said. "We've got to win the war on terror."

Said Goss: "I would like to report to you that the agency (CIA) is back on a very even keel and sailing well."

The CIA has come in for harsh criticism in recent years, not only for questionable prewar intelligence on Iraq but also in connection with the failure of it and a host of other federal agencies to coordinate information closely in connection with the terrorist threat.

Questions about the CIA's performance in connection with Iraq involved mostly George Tenet, Goss's predecessor.

Last fall, Goss defended his agency's track record and insisted "we know more than we're able to say publicly" about terror chiefs Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

The al-Qaida leaders haven't been found "primarily because they don't want us to find them and they're going to great lengths to make sure we don't find them," Goss said in a November interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

"We're applying a lot of efforts to find out where they are." He insisted that the CIA knows "a good deal more" about the men "than we're able to say publicly."

[Halls]

yep, that is what I'm thinking, this was a quick decision that just happend. I'm anxious to know whe the freaking frack happend!

[kabar]

I just watched the announcement. It look hurried. No replacement named. No leaks prior to the announcement, which is always a sign that it was sudden.

[conservativewasp]

Si.

[processing please hold]

DC has become a shell game. It's an enigma now.