Posted on 05/05/2006 10:52:38 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss has resigned, a senior administration official said.
President Bush, who has been making staff changes at the White House to reinvigoriate his second term, was making another personnel announcement Friday.
Bush's new chief of staff, Joshua Bolten, has made several changes since taking over last month.
Recently, longtime Bush adviser and confidant Karl Rove had the policy-making portion of his portfolio taken away so he could focus on the midterm elections and White House press secretary Scott McClellan announced his resignation. McClellan has been replaced by Fox News commentator Tony Snow.
McClellan's last briefing at the White House was Friday. His last day isn't until next week, but the president is traveling in Florida the first part of the week, meaning that McClellan will be briefing on the road.
Rove was allowed to keep his deputy chief of staff title, but was stripped of day-to-day oversight of policy coordination. That job was given to Joel Kaplan, Bolten's former No. 2 when he was budget director.
Bush also named Rob Portman, a former six-term Republican congressman from Ohio who now serves as U.S. trade representative, to replace Bolten at the head of the Office of Management and Budget.
The vacant job of domestic policy adviser has not yet filled.
Other changes that have been expected included changes in the White House lobbying office run by Candida Wolff and the expected departure of communications chief Nicolle Wallace, whose husband recently moved to New York. Officials have also done little to discourage speculation that Treasury Secretary John Snow is leaving.
Bush now needs to go in and clean house in the CIA. Shut down the CIA, then restaff a new intelligence agency with known elements.
Ugh. I hope you're wrong, but that would explain this.
RUDI!
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Isn't he still working on fixing Mexico City's crime problems?
That job is a real grinder, he could do it, question is would he want it?
I don't know about scandals, but if anything, he wasn't being tough enough. I thought he'd get in there and kick *ss and take names, as they say
Signed-up-today troll.
If you wanted to play with yourself by creating two screen names and posting to yourself, newb, you should have stayed home.
"Dramatically improved" during the tenure of Porter Goss.
But in a distance-and-direction urination contest with the entrenched bureaucrats left over from as far back as the Carter Administration, he was just swamped.
Note for his successor in the position - go in with a wet suit and a highly buoyant air boat. If you are going to have to face them, be prepared to go head on and at extreme velocity.
Real-time Mission Impossible.
Troll boy!
Hey sink...I knew this would bring on trolls..LOL
How about Rumsfeld? ;)
have you been living under a rock for the past two years?
do you read any of the CIA threads here?
you are uninformed to put it mildly (unless your a shill for the Agency)
Lurking'
President Bush watches as his Chief of Staff Andrew Card, right, swears in Porter Goss, center, to head the Central Intelligence Agency, in a Friday, Sept. 24, 2004, file photo, in the Oval Office of the White House. CIA Director Porter Goss has resigned, President Bush said Friday, May 5, 2006 (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
I do not think this bodes well.
You actually have the first post on this subject..
U.S. President George W. Bush walks around Fragers Hardware store in Southeast Washington May 5, 2006. Bush used his visit to the 86-year-old store to speak on new job figures released on Friday, and the economy. REUTERS/Jason Reed
Do you folks sell replacement department heads?
I got an opening I need to fill.
I hope we will eventually find out the real reason for Goss leaving. Maybe a tougher head will be able to straighten things out but, short of eliminating the agency and starting over, it will be very difficult.
He was my first thought...take no prisoners, no nonsense...too bad we need him where he is.
Obviously, no one knows why Goss resigned. We'll have to wait and see.
nevermind..read the time wrong..
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