Posted on 05/05/2006 10:08:03 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
why wouldn't it? the details of this departure strike me as that of someone who is very p*ssed off.
I love Red Dwarf. Thanks for the laugh on a weird and bewildering day.
GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL...some alibi; NOT!
Now this makes some sense....
regardless of reality here - listening to the network radio news feeds - they are running with the "hookers" story.
if it is Hayden - he confirmation hearings are going to be a constant barrage about "domestic spying" at the NSA.
also, Hayden will have to resign from the military I think, to take this slot.
It's looking like this was not quite so sudden, and not necessarily even remotely, scandal-related. If the latest MSM rumor mill on both AP and Fox turns out to be correct, then General Michael Hayden (Negroponte's deputy) is already slated to be the next CIA Director and it may be announced as soon as MONDAY:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060506/ap_on_go_pr_wh/white_house_shake_up
Of course, even if it is Hayden and even it they are already prepared to announce it on Monday, that doesn't prove it wasn't a sudden change or scandal-related. But I'm sticking with my hunch that it's mainly a case of Negroponte taking the next step in the reorganization of the intel community - Hayden has been his point man in so many ways on this re-org, as I have posted about above, and it could make a great deal of sense to send him now into the Augean Stables of the CIA and try to turn that place into a far more professional and competent organization than it has been with all the screw-ups and leaks in recent years.
It may simply be that Goss completed his transitional mission and it was the appropriate time to put at the head of the CIA someone who could well run the place for the next 5-10 years (which Goss had no interest in doing, from what I've heard).
You deserve all "props"...and I applaud you...I have heard/read so many theories about why this happened.
What is your theory of why, and why today??
You wanna be on the Red Dwarf ping list?
I agree that Hayden is a good choice.
Thanks, I'm only spinning a story out my head that makes sense to me, I don't have any real info, but it just seems to me that what Hayden described in a lengthy Q&A which I linked to this afternoon was a process of reorg and streamlining of the intel community (the 14 agencies or so) which would have to require further major steps at the CIA to dramatically reform how it's all been done in the past. Hayden has been Negroponte's point man and #2 on this process. Goss did as much as he could in 18+ months and now it was time for Negroponte and Hayden to take the reins more tightly and really put their vision in place. Of course there might (or might not) have been any particular precipitating events behind the scenes, but this strikes me as a very likely outcome even if Goss and Negronponte got along perfectly and shared 100% the same vision and operating sense. I'm not saying they do, just that Goss was not interested in being around for the next 5-10 years (from what I've heard and read) and it really was time to put in place a new Director of the CIA who Negroponte and President Bush felt 100% sure could take their vision forward for the next 5-10 years.
Yes.
What proves it is not scandal-related is the fact that both President Bush and John Negroponte were with Porter Goss in the Oval Office to announce the latter's resignation. (The individual who started the "it's due to scandal" thing on this thread was being deliberately malicious in my opinion.)
A photo from today.
You're quite right - why would President Bush be doing a smiling photo op with a top official resigning if there was about to be a cloud of scandal? Any WH would keep arms' length if that were the case.
CNN now asserting quite firmly that unnamed "senior administration officials" (plural) are confirming that the nomination of General Michael Hayden will be announced on Monday!!!
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/05/goss.resignation/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush has settled on Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden as his choice for CIA director, and an announcement is planned for Monday, senior administration officials told CNN late Friday.
Hayden, 61, is the principal deputy to National Intelligence Director John Negroponte.
If confirmed by the Senate, Hayden would replace Porter Goss, who abruptly resigned the CIA post earlier Friday after losing what intelligence sources described as a power struggle with Negroponte.
Hayden was director of the National Security Agency in 2001 when Bush authorized a controversial program allowing the agency to monitor the communications of people inside the United States who were in contact with suspected terrorists overseas without first obtaining a warrant.
Critics charge the surveillance program is a violation of law and an assault on civil liberties. Hayden has defended the program, insisting that it is a necessary tool to thwart terrorists and that the process of obtaining warrants is too slow and cumbersome to deal with "a lethal enemy."
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