Posted on 05/05/2006 10:08:03 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
Press conference at 1:45
Sounds like Porter got a raw deal here...
I seem to remember that Tenet said that one of the problems the CIA had in the Clinton White House, was his inability to speak directly to Clinton every day.
Bush comes in...and makes it policy to talk to the CIA Director every day, especially since 9/11....and then Congress sets up this stupid new system recommended by the bogus 9/11 Commission...
and once again, the CIA Director is left out of everyday contact...
This is all my theory of course...but, I am sure that Goss was told he would have direct contact with President Bush...and Congress, and Negroponte have thwarted that.
Yes, you are correct, God Bless Mr. Goss...( I am praying I won't have to take back that statement)
He gave a speech at the Reagan library last year saying he was only intending to stay a year at the CIA, but of course had gone on longer because the Pres asked him too.
(trying to remember where I read this)
Byron York NRO The Corner has a blurb on the hearing today--Libby says he has 5 witnesses that Wilson disclosed his wife's identity and employment at the CIA to others.
That should suffice.
Maybe all this talk about Foggo and Hookergate is a PLANTED story to OUT some LEAKERS, and stiil keep national security secrets!!
I remember in the rush of the Friday night McCarthy posts one about all of the investigations that Justice was involved in, dozens I believe. I found this:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192640,00.html
So maybe - "No matter what you hear, Goss came, he saw, he conquered. This isn't a "staff change", it has nothing to do with Rove. It was understood when he came in what he was coming in for. He did what he came to do."
If the story is correct. He took names, kicked a$$ and now he wants to go fishin'
Poker, hookers, LIQUOR and CIGARS!!!! OMG!!! That's worse than MURDER!!! HANG EM HIGH!!
I believe you have this wrong. Negroponte was a huge obstruction to getting the "Iraq Documents" translated and released. Negroponte was afraid that there might some documents whose release could "offend" a friendly government......rumor he was worried about offending Russia or France!!
Rep Hoesktra (R-MI) (sp) took the lead on this effort and has been very vocal about the need to get them all translated. Hoesktra had to fight Negroponte to get this done. Basically he outflanked him by getting the documents controlled by the military and translated by freelancers: IE: Jveritas of Free Republic.
Bush, inexplicably, has not seemed interested in getting the facts out there!? Goss's resignation now makes me even more apprehensive that Bush has lost the initiative in the fight against our enemies (the WOT) and the Democrat enablers of our enemies.
Thanks for doing my work for me! (I must learn to post articles)
MSNBC...Andrea Mitchell reporting Goss was fired.
Ahhhhh...what new guy. I don't think one was named - which probably says this was an abrupt move that took Bush by suprise.
I think goss was up the the job if he had had more help for Bush, Justice and Negroponte in going after (prosecuting) leakers in the CIA.
Without that backing, he probably felt his had been thrust into an impossible job.
Andrea Mitchell reporting Goss was fired.
And she would know how?
Her anti-American "sources".
I don't trust Negroponte...don't know why though.
Her sources.
Amen....Pray for Porter Goss.
I think he probably knew he was going to be a transitional figure. His job was to come in and clean house, and that's not a way to make yourself popular. What's unclear is whether, or to what degree, he accomplished a restructuring of the CIA before he got nudged out or got fed up, whichever happened.
You're right that he could not have predicted the creation of a redundant layer of bureaucracy (Director of Central Intelligence: Which part is unclear?) above his head. He probably anticipated -- as I did -- more aggregation of agencies like DIA and NSA under DCI supervision and analysis rather than another agency to make the Central -- there's that word again -- Intelligence Agency less central.
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