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."
Despite the claim in the CNN article you posted that Goss resigned "abruptly," this apparently has been in the works for awhile. Simply because no one leaked his pending resignation to the MSM in advance of the actual event doesn't mean it was "abrupt."
Seems to me the only thing abrupt about this story is the instantaneous leap some people made into a yarn about scandal and other bad things.
Many of us might familiar with General Hayden.