President Bush (R) shakes hands with outgoing CIA Director Porter Goss following the announcement of Goss's resignation from the post, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 5, 2006. REUTERS/Jason Reed
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 McClellan has been replaced by Fox News commentator Tony Snow.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.
Close the agency down... they are turning into the KGB.
Ditto, Drag Queen Rudy is making millions advising the Mexican government Mafia on crime, lipstick on a pig joke.
I saw that,, lol
It shows ya how many folks aren't napping,, it was like a blast of headsup oneliners.
It made Breaking for a few.. oh well. ;-)
So did I. Guess it ain't happenin'.
One way to tell something about the motive of Bush, if it was Bush who asked Goss to go, and not Goss who wanted to go, is to wait until Bush announces his replacement. His replacement will tell us more than all the immediate speculation.
President Bush (R) shakes hands with outgoing CIA Director Porter Goss following the announcement of Goss's resignation from the post, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 5, 2006. REUTERS/Jason Reed
President Bush announces that CIA Director Porter Goss, left, will be resigining, in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 5, 2006, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
As quickly as this happened, I'm looking for an answer somewhere in his personal life and not some political in-fighting. Goss was laying wood on those commie scumbags in the CIA like McCarthy/Larry Johnson/Ray McGovern/Valerie Plame/Rand Beers cabal. Goss was finally getting some of those pinko holdovers out of the woodwork so we can actually have an agency which does the Presidents work and not just work against the President.
Hum!!!!!!!I was just getting ready to walk out of the office and boom this bombshell drops.
Chris Wallace just said that this was planned.
Actually, the harder to step on these liberals the more them scream. The screaming gets louder until the point where you get the last one and then you get peace. Goss WAS making progress in getting these pinkos. That is why they are complaining so loudly. If Goss were ineffective, the pinkos wouldn't need to leak anything and they wouldn't need to defend people like McCarthy because she would have escaped unsullied.
U.S. President George W. Bush (R) announces the resignation Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Porter Goss (L) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 5, 2006. No successor was announced. REUTERS/Jason Reed
I'm in DC. One of our legislative affairs peolpe just came in my office and said Porter had been connected to the prostitution/Duke Cunningham scandal through the hotel room they used?
I obviously can't back that up, I'm just passing along what I heard.
yup. Watch for how slowly a successor is sought. ;-)
OY VAY.....
That was my impression, too. I'll be interested to see what develops.
Apparently, it's not so secret news....
Its no secret that him and Negropote don't get along, in a power struggle, someone wins, someone loses.
That said, I'd wait until this is official
Why do I have the suspicion that you posted this rumor, not because you "surely hope" it isn't true, but because you want to suggest it IS true?
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