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

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[Rutles4Ever]

Press conference at 1:45

[NAVY84]

Porter walked into the Oval Office, sat down, said Iran is a slam dunk!

Dick Cheney operates the action of a pump shotgun.

The President drops his pen. Looks up and asks for Porter's resignation.

(Side note: President finds VETO PEN on the floor when he went looking for the one he dropped)

[gondramB]

>>Perhaps. Regardless, if Joe was "outing" his own wife, it makes Fitzjerk's case look even more miniscule. It certainly undercuts the MSM=Democrap's message on this.<<

The judge normally won't allow a direction that doesn't have any bearing on guilt or innocence.

Also if Libby had clearance then its not such a bug deal to discuss it with him - telling reporters is still a different issue.

[Crawdad]

It's Red Foreman!

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Did you see post 806?

[conserv13]

They are doing it in the 'real world' on CNN and FOX news. I'm not a reporter or a pundit.

I think people who think that the 'hookergate' has nothing to do with his leaving are naive.

[gondramB]

>>(Side note: President finds VETO PEN on the floor when he went looking for the one he dropped)<<

Well now you are being unrealistic ... :)

[Mr. Silverback]

Coming out of the political closet and announcing he's a Democrap?

Awwwwww, that's so darn cute!

[Prost1]

About Michael Hayden (omitted in the article)
http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=5746
"Gen. Michael V. Hayden is Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Washington, D.C. Appointed by President George W. Bush, he is the first person to serve in this position. General Hayden is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day activities of the national intelligence program. He is the highest-ranking military intelligence officer in the armed forces."

Looks like Hayden is taking over critical intelligence possibly because CIA is TOO CORRUPT!

IOW, the CIA was not being fixed fast enough and if they can't prosecute Mary McCarthy, then just pull the rug and give the key assets to another trusted professional.

[Cautor]

I doubt Bush would have appeared with Goss if he was leaving over some kind of hooker problem.

[kitkat]

Yeah, you WISH!

[tobyhill]

Not enough heads were rolling and the couple that did just didn't roll fast enough. These leaks probably extend into the congress, State Dept and/or DOJ and Goss just wasn't up to the task of cleaning house knowing there was pressure from politicians. Look no further than McCarthy and see the leftist pressure for outing their inside source.

[Cautor]

Here's a thought from another analyst:

It may have become clear to Goss that the W.H. will not allow the DOJ to pursue subpoenas or indictments in the WaPo/Mary McCarthy matter. If so, Goss may have reached the (reasonable) conclusion that he cannot succeed in rooting out leakers in the CIA if there's not going to be a serious effort at prosecution.

[NAVY84]

We just had a discussion yesterday about the difference between DUCK and DUCT tape. I think this is the one involving abuse of a public animal.

[Smartass]

 Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Thursday, April 20, 2006 1:13 a.m. EDT

Pulitzer Winner: Bill Clinton Decimated the CIA

Author James Risen won the Pulitzer Prize on Tuesday for his much ballyhooed New York Times report last December that revealed President Bush's previously secret terrorist surveillance program - a revelation he uncovered while researching his book "State of War."

In the same book, however, Risen makes an equally explosive claim about President Clinton's relationship with the CIA - which his editors at the Times have so far declined to cover.

Upon taking power in 1993, Risen reports, the Clinton administration "began slashing the intelligence budget in search of a peace dividend, and Bill Clinton showed almost no interest in intelligence matters."

The agency cutbacks combined with presidential disinterest took their toll almost immediately.

"Over a three-or-four-year period in the early-to-mid 1990s," reports Risen, "virtually an entire generation of CIA officers - the people who had won the Cold War - quit or retired. One CIA veteran compared the agency to an airline that had lost all of is senior pilots . . . "

After Clinton CIA Director John Deutch cashiered several senior officers over a scandal in Guatamala, the situation got even worse.

"Morale [at the CIA] plunged to new lows, and the agency became paralyzed by an aversion to high-risk espionage operations for fear they would lead to political flaps. Less willing to take big risks, the CIA was less able to recruit spies in dangerous places such as Iraq."

The Clinton era of risk aversion also hobbled CIA efforts to get Osama bin Laden. In early 1998, Risen says, the agency was prepared to launch a special operation to kidnap the al Qaeda chief in Afghanistan.

"To be sure the operation was high risk, and there was a strong possibility that it would be so messy that bin Laden would be killed rather than captured. [CIA Director George] Tenet and the CIA's lawyers worried deeply about that issue; they believed the covert action finding on al Qaeda that President Clinton had signed authorized only bin Laden's capture, not his death."

Frustrated by restrictions that made dealing with the big challenges too difficult, the agency turned its energy to lesser problems.

Reports Risen: "Thanks to Vice President Al Gore, for example, the CIA briefly made the global environment one of is priorities."

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[potlatch]

Hi Smartass, you have become an expert poster!!

[jpl]

It may have become clear to Goss that the W.H. will not allow the DOJ to pursue subpoenas or indictments in the WaPo/Mary McCarthy matter. If so, Goss may have reached the (reasonable) conclusion that he cannot succeed in rooting out leakers in the CIA if there's not going to be a serious effort at prosecution.

This is a good point.

Let's face it, the November election is six months away, and Bush and the Republicans have their hands full and then some in order to avoid losing the House and having an impeachment inquiry starting next year. From here on out, partisan survival politics is going to consume pretty much everything in Washington.

[Alas Babylon!]

OK, I got it! I think I saw something like this in a movie:

Goss is going because of someone named Ellie. A reporter will track him down to a waterfront dock where Goss and his family are packing all kinds of supplies from Sam's Club into their sailboat. The reporter is amazed to find Goss with his wife, because she thought Goss was having an affair with Ellie. But Goss and wife seem to be in tight. Nervous, but together.

Now Morgan Freeman has his men temporarily kidnap the reporter and meets her in a deserted hotel kitchen. He asked her how she knew about the French air traffic controller's comet crashing into the Earth the end of this month. "Comet? What comet?" she says. "You know", Freeman says, "the one that's going to cause the ELE, Extinction Level Event."

Finally, Frodo races a dirt-bike up a mountain with his 14 year old wife hanging on the back.



Later

[txhurl]

It does seem he left in a snit, doesn't it? Oh man... not good.

[livius]

I think you're right. Goss would have quietly resigned - or maybe not so quietly, but without the presence of Bush.

I think this is something bigger than hookers. Even if they're big mommas...

[T Minus Four]

Good one :-)