CIA boss in surprise resignation ~ Mr Goss said: "I believe the agency is on a very even keel,....

BBC ^ | Friday, 5 May 2006, 18:45 GMT 19:45 UK | staff

[Reily]

"As long as he bullied out all the diversity quilt losers "

Do you really believe that, that 'diversity quilt crowd' crowd has left?
Remember The executive branch sets the hiring criteria.
Those 'true believers' get hired and advanced up the GS ladder by not only advancing that agenda themselves BUT also by forcing & intimidating others to do so. In roughly 10 years ( equivalent to the length of time Clinton and his kind were in office.) these 'true believers' would be in middle to upper middle management again to make sure more clones of themselves get hired.
Goss merely lopped of the top of the weed I am sure it is still there and going strong. A Goss would need 10 years to weed that garden.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the post at #79:

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A CNN report said Negroponte decided recently to transfer certain functions from the CIA to his office, but the decision was fiercely resisted by Goss. And after the White House sided with Negroponte and his deputy, Michael Hayden, it was a mutual decision that Goss would resign, the report quoted sources as saying.

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And they are busy pumping out .....crap....

From Wonkette....whatever:

May 06, 2006 at 12:31 AM
Porter Goss: Fall of an American Criminal

[Hildy]

I'm sorry, but the hookergate thing, even if it was the perverbial straw, will be the official reason he resigned. And, it probably is.

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And:

Porter Goss' spooky demise

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Bush's CIA chief abruptly resigns under a shadow of alleged ties to a corrupt congressman and leaves a spy agency in chaos.

By Walter Shapiro

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President Bush announces the resignation of CIA director Porter Goss (left).

If George W. Bush were presiding over a normal administration, there would be nothing spooky about Porter Goss' abrupt resignation Friday afternoon. It would be painfully evident from Bush's forced rhetoric ("Porter's tenure at the CIA was one of transition") and Goss' comically overblown boasts ("The agency is on a very even keel, sailing well") that the CIA director was sacked for ineptitude.

As the normally mild-mannered Ivo Daalder, a former staff member at the National Security Council under Bill Clinton, put it, "Porter Goss was such an absolute disaster for the agency and our national security that his departure comes not a day too soon."

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[Marine_Uncle]

"....was a feeble attempt to tar him ..."
LOL. Surely it was a feeble attempt. The dopes did not even consider using feathers. ROFLOL. I gotta loosen up a bit.
Hopefully this will all turn against the demorats and L/MSM, if Goss just turns out to have wanted out to run for a senate seat.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From CNN:

Goss: CIA resignation 'one of those mysteries'

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Saturday, May 6, 2006; Posted: 10:47 a.m. EDT (14:47 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Porter Goss said Saturday that his surprise resignation as CIA director is "just one of those mysteries," offering no other explanation for his sudden departure after almost two years on the job.

Although the ex-congressman declined to comment, intelligence sources have told CNN that Goss' resignation on Friday was triggered by differences with National Intelligence Director John Negroponte over plans to move staff, including analysts from the CIA's counterterrorism center, to other intelligence agencies.

[Marine_Uncle]

One can accept Goss's personal feelings. It sure does seem like giving up certain long held powers to the Director of National Intellegience could diminish ones desire to serve as Director of the CIA. At any rate, it appears Goss has shaken up the agency a bit, and the stage may actually be setup for no more leaks or one's head rolls. The good general may take on a job that is now better defined, with the understanding there will be no friction between the DNI and CIA. Could all end well.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This could have all been a setup from the very beginning.....Bush knowing he had a major problem with the moles in the CIA who were extremely brazzen in trying to sabotage his administration....basically set up a super organization and shink the old agency.....that is why the DemonicRats are yelling....

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Now we have this with a left wing media Group:

'Heckuva Job, Porter': Dana Priest Reveals CIA Disaster Dana Priest
By E&P Staff
Published: May 06, 2006 12:25 PM ET

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NEW YORK With the sudden departure of Porter Goss as director of the CIA on Friday, it became clear that the press would have a field day, as the magnitude of another disastrous high-level appointment became clear. Just as President Bush was likening the war on terror to "World War III," the man he had appointment as a frontlines officer was revealed as the wrong man for the job from the outset who had seriously undermined that "war."

Not surprisingly, the reporter who provided the most informed, and lacerating, critique was The Washington Post's Dana Priest. She has had an unfortunate link with Goss in recent weeks, ever since at Goss's order a CIA officer named Mary McCarthy was fired amid allegations that she had leaked information to Priest for her Pulitzer-winning "secret prisons" stories. McCarthy has denied this.

Today, Priest in a front-page Post story, painted this picture of Goss:

"Porter J. Goss was brought into the CIA to quell what the White House viewed as a partisan insurgency against the administration and to re-energize a spy service that failed to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks or accurately assess Iraq's weapons capability.

"But as he walked out the glass doors of Langley headquarters yesterday, Goss left behind an agency that current and former intelligence officials say is weaker operationally, with a workforce demoralized by an exodus of senior officers and by uncertainty over its role in fighting terrorism and other intelligence priorities, said current and former intelligence officials.

"In public, Goss once acknowledged being 'amazed at the workload.' Within headquarters, 'he never bonded with the workforce,' said John O. Brennan, a former senior CIA official and interim director of the National Counterterrorism Center until last July. 'Now there's a decline in morale, its capability has not been optimized and there's a hemorrhaging of very good officers,' Brennan said.... Brennan added: 'Porter's a dedicated public servant. He was ill-suited for the job.'

"As a result of all these factors, said these sources and outside experts who work with the CIA, the number of case officers has skyrocketed, but there has been no dramatic improvement in how spies collect intelligence about terrorist targets.

"As important, Goss -- who did not like to travel overseas or to wine and dine foreign intelligence chiefs who visited Washington -- allowed the atrophy of relations with the foreign intelligence services that helped the CIA kill or catch nearly all the terrorists taken off the streets since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, in the view of these officials and several foreign intelligence officials."

The remainder of the article can be found at www.washingtonpost.com

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From the Captain's Quarters:

Captain's Caption Contest: Intelligence Edition

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With all of the kerfuffle over the resignation of Porter Goss and the possible selection of General Michael Hayden as his successor, it gives us an opportunity to revisit an old CQ tradition -- the caption contest! Here we see Hayden conferring with his boss, DNI John Negroponte, oblivious to the suspicious pitcher of water sitting between them:

What do you imagine is going on in this conversation? Leave your best caption in the comments section, which will remain open until The Sopranos airs on Sunday evening. As always, make sure you put your entries in our comments section -- NO e-mailed entries, please! E-mailed entries will be intercepted by the NSA and delivered to black helicopters in your neighborhoods awaiting Karl Rove's next command.

Let the games begin!

Posted by Captain Ed at May 6, 2006 10:11 AM

[HardStarboard]

>>>Can anyone here convince me that the CIA is a pro-American agency? I am beginning to think they are the enemy we should fear most.<<<

One of the best comments I saw elsewhere was: "the CIA used to get in trouble for attempting to overthrow foreign governments, now, (since Clinton) they are attempting to overthrow the US government"!! Pretty much right on!

[Marine_Uncle]

"As a result of all these factors, said these sources and outside experts who work with the CIA, the number of case officers has skyrocketed, but there has been no dramatic improvement in how spies collect intelligence about terrorist targets."
A clear indictment of George Tenent's watch. And quite frankly the GHB years. Some years years, new rules, methods could have been put in place to deal with the transition between cold war intel techniques and the then quite obviouse terrorism syndrom.

"As important, Goss -- who did not like to travel overseas or to wine and dine foreign intelligence chiefs who visited Washington."

Oh come off it bimbos. First the L/MSM makes a big deal that Goss may have been a bit to fond of Cuban cigars (assume he likes a quality cigar), then they complain he was not one for wining and dinning, spending tax payers money on most often frivious social events.
Frigen spin artists.

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Latest:

White House Dismisses Reports on Goss

[HardStarboard]

>>>Personally, I'd like to recommend Robert Redford as a replacement.<<<

Bob, (thats what we used to call him at the Univ. of Colorado 50 years ago), would fit right in with the rest of the lefties at the CIA.

Lousy choice

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From the leftie Blogosphere:

BREAKING: CIA Director Porter Goss Resigns

It's under Corrupt Establishment....

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UPDATE: AP has the story.

UPDATE II: We’ve put together a primer on the connection between Goss and the Cunningham scandal:

[Purrcival]

"Funny how people forget that these folks running these agencies are old. They get sick. When it happens, one seldom talks about it when one departs."

Not to mention that it's a pressure cooker.

*gasp* Goss plays poker and smokes CIGARS????????? Oh, the hugh manatee!