[HardStarboard]

>>>He is the one who called for the immediate translation of documents pertaining to Saddam's nuclear program in 2000.<<<

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.

[Txsleuth]

MSNBC...Andrea Mitchell reporting Goss was fired.

[eleni121]

Yes it appears so. Negroponte was not chafing at the bit to release the documents. That said, not much has YET come of them since their release right?

On the whole Goss' resignation is not a good thing. Except that maybe Negroponte's background as a get things done type of guy may increase the momentum for reform at the CIA and in general US intel. This, coming on the heels of the Cheney ambush of the Russians in Vilnius yesterday seems somehow...coordinated?