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To: Enchante
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.

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.


999 posted on 05/05/2006 9:01:54 PM PDT by Wolfstar (So tired of the straight line, and everywhere you turn, There's vultures and thieves at your back...)
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To: Wolfstar

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."


1,000 posted on 05/05/2006 9:06:31 PM PDT by Enchante (Mary McCarthy & Richard Clarke: Al Qaeda and Iraq helped to produce VX in Sudan!!!)
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To: Wolfstar
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

That doesn't prove it. What better way to cast doubt on a soon-to-be scandal than to play it cool?
1,008 posted on 05/05/2006 11:40:49 PM PDT by NinoFan
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To: Wolfstar

Correct...and after the lights went din, Porter had a HUGE smile on his face...hje was laughing!! Doubt that would be the case if he had been pushed out or if there is a scandal coming out!!


1,023 posted on 05/06/2006 9:22:57 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kaboom"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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