Here come the rumors.
Over at
http://www.Warandpiece.com, Laura Rozen says she's
hearing that Negroponte, or possibly the White House,
gave Goss the boot, and it was sudden. That fits with
what I'm hearing: that Goss didn't jump, or at least not
without a nudge.
Rozen says she's been told Goss' departure "may have to
do with how Goss handled a management issue concerning
Foggo."
I've heard it a bit more bluntly: Goss was told to fire
Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, his troublesome Executive Director,
and Goss refused. That's what we're hearing now from
knowledgeable sources. But there's a lot of
contradictory information. We'll bring you more as the
picture becomes clearer.
Permalink | TOPICS: Hookergate: Porter Goss
Goss Departed Over Foggo?
By Justin Rood - May 5, 2006, 3:49 PM
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Justin Rood, reporter/blogger for TPM Muckraker, on the
strange resignation of CIA chief, Porter Goss.
http://www.majorityreportradio.com/weblog/index.php
AUDIO SOON TO BE POSTED AT "RADIO YOUR WAY"
http://www.apfn.net/pogo.htm
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Hookers involved in Goss resignation?
Evan Derkacz, AlterNet
PEEK: In addition to speculation about prostitutes on
Capitol Hill and fumbling ineptitude in office, rumors
are flying that Goss is headed for a Senate run.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/35899/
As my colleague Matthew notes in the Mix, Bush's CIA
Director Porter Goss, the man who said, in March of
2004, that "I couldn't get a job with CIA today. I am
not qualified," resigned today, after an abbreviated
stint of less than two years. By comparison, George
Tenet was director for over seven.
Since shocking ineptitude and a dangerous devotion to
the president are de rigeur for power positions these
days, we have to ask if it weren't something else at
play. Aside from the desire to "spend a little more time
with the family," of course.
Last week the Wall St. Journal reported the explosive
story that lobbyists had been procuring "hospitality
suites" (where prostitutes happened to be waiting) for
lawmakers like discredited California Republican Duke
Cunningham (who, Matthew notes, has already been
connected to Goss...).
But, from Old 33 we learn that Harpers' Ken Silverstein
did a little digging of his own on the 27th of April:
"I've learned from a well-connected source that those
under intense scrutiny by the FBI are current and former
lawmakers on Defense and Intelligence comittees --
including one person who now holds a powerful
intelligence post."
And now, a little over a week later the person who holds
the most powerful intelligence post resigns? Hmm. Could
be nothing.
But then Old 33 also catches this other connection from
Justin Rood....
One of the other players in the prostitution scandal is
Brent Wilkes, a defense contractor who allegedly
attempted to bribe Cunningham and others with
prostitutes.
Rood speculates:
Actually, make that a double-yowzah: Remember that Goss
is the one who plucked one of Wilkes' old San Diego
friends, the unusual and colorful Kyle "Dusty" Foggo,
out of CIA middle-management obscurity to be his #3 at
the agency. At the time of Foggo's appointment, no one
could figure out where he came from, or how Goss knew
him.
But if Goss was at the [prostitution] "parties," I
wonder, was Foggo there too? Did they see each other? Is
this where Goss had an opportunity to gauge Foggo's
abilities, and determine he was qualified for the CIA
executive director post?
The tally: Word is, a top CIA man is involved in
prostitution scandal. Top CIA man retires. Man
inexplicably hired by Top CIA guy is friend of a key
prostitution scandal player? Paradise Goss'd? Goss'd in
Translation?
Bob Geiger finds this comforting gem from the Yahoo
story:
"The al-Qaida leaders haven't been found 'primarily
because they don't want us to find them and they're
going to great lengths to make sure we don't find them,'
Goss said in a November interview on ABC's Good Morning
America."
Can this be shocking ineptitude from the man who wrote a
memo two weeks into the job telling his employees that
they were little more than a booster club for the
Republican Party:
"[Our job is to] support the administration and its
policies in our work. As agency employees, we do not
identify with, support, or champion opposition to the
administration or its policies."
The very latest buzz is that Goss may run against
Katherine Harris in the Republican primary for a seat in
the U.S. Senate, according to the St. Petersburg Times'
blog. "Given his rocky tenure at the CIA that seems hard
to swallow," writes Adam C. Smith, but then:
"He'd be an awesome candidate," CFO candidate Tom
Gallagher said when asked about the Goss for senate
talk. When we suggested Goss' CIA experience might
explain why this would be the best kept political secret
in Florida, Gallagher didn't miss a beat: "That would be
about the only secret they kept."
(DailyKos, TPM, Harper's, The Buzz)
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Politician Linked to 9/11 Nominated to Head CIA
July 8, 2004
Carol Brouillet / Community Currency
The strange and troubling history of former CIA covert
operations agent, Congressman Porter Goss, the man
George W. Bush is rumored to favor as the new head of
the CIA. Before Goss is confirmed, he needs to explain
to the American people why, at the very moment hijacked
planes were crashing into the World Trade Center, he was
having breakfast with the Pakistani intelligence cheif
to had just sent $100,000 to 9-11 mastermind Mohamed
Atta.
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/goss.htm
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UPDATED: CIA's Goss at Cunningham's Hooker Parties?
by Old 33
Thu Apr 27, 2006 at 06:25:34 PM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/27/212534/995
UPDATE - georgia10 picks up the story, expands it, comes
to the same conclusions I did...seriously, who would
have thought any member of Congress would be so stupid
as to accept hookers from a lobbyist? If this is true,
we sweep both houses of Congress. By a landslide. This
morning the WSJ broke the story that FBI investigators
are looking into a new aspect to the Duke Cunningham
story - the defense contractors who bribed him also
threw him wild parties and arranged for prostitutes and
hotel rooms.
The WSJ also said that the FBI is looking into whether
these same contractors arranged for prostitutes for
other members of congress.
Ken Silverstein at Harper's blog is reporting:
I've learned from a well-connected source that those
under intense scrutiny by the FBI are current and former
lawmakers on Defense and Intelligence comittees --
including one person who now holds a powerful
intelligence post.
* Old 33's diary :: ::
*
Who's a former lawmaker on the Intelligence Committee
who holds a powerful intelligence post?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/27/212534/995
Actually, make that a double-yowzah: Remember that Goss
is the one who plucked one of Wilkes' old San Diego
friends, the unusual and colorful Kyle "Dusty" Foggo,
out of CIA middle-management obscurity to be his #3 at
the agency. At the time of Foggo's appointment, no one
could figure out where he came from, or how Goss knew
him.
But if Goss was at the "parties," I wonder, was Foggo
there too? Did they see each other? Is this where Goss
had an opportunity to gauge Foggo's abilities, and
determine he was qualified for the CIA executive
director post?
Oh...and apparently, there are pictures...
This might actually be better than Fitzmas...
Tags: CIA, Porter Goss, Randy Cunningham, Duke
Cunningham, prostitute, GOP, corruption, Recommended
(all tags)
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Resignation of CIA chief sparks talk of scandal
Scotsman, United Kingdom - 53 minutes ago
PORTER Goss, the man handpicked by George Bush, the
president of the United States, to reform and revitalise
the CIA, resigned yesterday afternoon. ...
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