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Bush Personnel Announcement at 1:45 EDT (Porter Goss Resigns from CIA)
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Posted on 05/05/2006 10:08:03 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
Press conference at 1:45
TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cia; ciadirector; goss; gossresigns; libby; mccarthy; media; negroponte; nonstory; portergoss; resignation; speculativemonkeys; spies; wilson
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To: Coop
If the CIA put as much effort into foreign intelligence work as they do infighting we would be on top of the world.
To: TomGuy
IIRC, Goss was the first one to take the lie-detector exam.
442
posted on
05/05/2006 11:08:11 AM PDT
by
Crawdad
(So the guy says to the doctor, "It hurts when I do this.")
To: Enchante
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.
443
posted on
05/05/2006 11:08:20 AM PDT
by
kabar
To: shield
I want someone who is ex-DIA.
444
posted on
05/05/2006 11:08:21 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem)
To: conservativewasp
>>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.
445
posted on
05/05/2006 11:08:27 AM PDT
by
gondramB
(He who angers you, in part, controls you. But he may not enjoy what the rest of you does about it.)
To: null and void
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.
To: Protect the Bill of Rights
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?
447
posted on
05/05/2006 11:08:32 AM PDT
by
Chgogal
(The US Military fights for Freedom of the Press while the NYT lies about the Military and cowers...)
To: Howlin
Oh crap .. why is he leaving?
448
posted on
05/05/2006 11:08:32 AM PDT
by
Mo1
(DEMOCRATS: A CULTURE OF TREASON)
To: TomGuy
[CNN is stretching to find something!]
Well, so are we!!
449
posted on
05/05/2006 11:08:37 AM PDT
by
bonfire
To: hosepipe
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.
450
posted on
05/05/2006 11:08:40 AM PDT
by
ClancyJ
(Is the primary goal of our Congress to protect America's borders?)
To: mwl1
If Goss if Florida, then he better get down there quickly.
451
posted on
05/05/2006 11:09:14 AM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It. Supporting our Troops Means Praying for them to Win!)
To: pinz-n-needlez
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.
452
posted on
05/05/2006 11:09:21 AM PDT
by
lugsoul
("Crash" - the movie that teaches we are all incurable racists, except when we are not.)
To: mwl1; bonfire; Howlin
453
posted on
05/05/2006 11:09:21 AM PDT
by
bwteim
(Begin With The End In Mind)
To: NinoFan
With no evidence of such, what a nasty thing to post.
454
posted on
05/05/2006 11:09:24 AM PDT
by
txrangerette
("We are fighting al-Qaeda, NOT Aunt Sadie"...Dick Cheney commenting on the wiretaps!!)
To: Chgogal
It's a loser and probably impossible to change.Dismantling the CIA would be addition by subtraction.
To: Protect the Bill of Rights
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."
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posted on
05/05/2006 11:09:55 AM PDT
by
RobFromGa
(In decline, the Driveby Media is thrashing about like dinosaurs caught in the tar pits.)
To: Semper Paratus
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!
457
posted on
05/05/2006 11:09:55 AM PDT
by
Halls
(One Proud Texas Momma!!)
To: mnehrling
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.
458
posted on
05/05/2006 11:10:01 AM PDT
by
kabar
To: dagnabbit
459
posted on
05/05/2006 11:10:07 AM PDT
by
conservativewasp
(Liberals lie for sport and hate our country.)
To: JustPiper
DC has become a shell game. It's an enigma now.
460
posted on
05/05/2006 11:10:16 AM PDT
by
processing please hold
(Be careful of charity and kindness, lest you do more harm with open hands than with a clinched fist)
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