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Hater Depot
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 Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 12:39 pm Post subject: You don't have Porter Goss to kick around any more |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/05/AR2006050500937.html
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CIA Director Porter J. Goss resigned today after less than two years on the job, President Bush announced at the White House.
Bush said Goss offered his resignation this morning and that "I've accepted it."
Neither the president nor Goss, who sat to Bush's right as he made the announcement in the Oval Office, gave a reason for the resignation. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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There have been weeks-long policy disputes between Goss and John Negroponte, the director of national intelligence, over the future of the CIA, sources who were close to the discussions told CNN.
According to sources, Negroponte's decision to transfer certain functions from the CIA to his office were fiercely resisted by Goss, who believe the moves would diminish the agency's power and ability to function.
After the White House sided with Negroponte and his deputy, Gen. Michael Hayden, it was a mutual decision that Goss would resign, the sources said... |
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/05/goss.resignation/index.html
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bucheon bum
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| Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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| I think he was in over his head and quickly burned out. Throw in the power struggle and you've got one disgruntled CIA director. |
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Bulsajo
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| Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm hoping I don't have to do a crap job like that when I'm 65... |
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canuckistan
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| Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm waiting for his book. |
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canuckistan
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| Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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Ok it's the NY Daily News....but Porter, say it ain't so!!!
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/415304p-350961c.html
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CIA boss Goss is cooked
Tied to contractor's poker parties -
hints of bribes & women
BY RICHARD SISK and JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Outgoing CIA Director Porter Goss shakes hands with President Bush yesterday at surprise White House announcement of Goss' resignation after only a year.
WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday amid allegations that he and a top aide may have attended Watergate poker parties where bribes and prostitutes were provided to a corrupt congressman.
Kyle (Dusty) Foggo, the No. 3 official at the CIA, could soon be indicted in a widening FBI investigation of the parties thrown by defense contractor Brent Wilkes, named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the bribery conviction of former Rep. Randall (Duke) Cunningham, law enforcement sources said.
A CIA spokeswoman said Foggo went to the lavish weekly hospitality-suite parties at the Watergate and Westin Grand hotels but "just for poker."
Intelligence and law enforcement sources said solid evidence had yet to emerge that Goss also went to the parties, but Goss and Foggo share a fondness for poker and expensive cigars, and the FBI investigation was continuing.
Larry Johnson, a former CIA operative and a Bush administration critic, said Goss "had a relationship with Dusty and with Brent Wilkes that's now coming under greater scrutiny."
Johnson vouched for the integrity of Foggo and Goss but said, "Dusty was a big poker player, and it's my understanding that Porter Goss was also there \[at Wilkes' parties\] for poker. It's going to be guilt by association."
"It's all about the Duke Cunningham scandal," a senior law enforcement official told the Daily News in reference to Goss' resignation. Duke, a California Republican, was sentenced to more than eight years in prison after pleading guilty in November to taking $2.4 million in homes, yachts and other bribes in exchange for steering government contracts.
Goss' inability to handle the allegations swirling around Foggo prompted John Negroponte, the director of National Intelligence, who oversees all of the nation's spy agencies, to press for the CIA chief's ouster, the senior official said. The official said Goss is not an FBI target but "there is an impending indictment" of Foggo for steering defense contracts to his poker buddies.
One subject of the FBI investigation is a $3 million CIA contract that went to Wilkes to supply bottled water and other goods to CIA operatives in Iraq and Afghanistan, sources said.
In a hastily arranged Oval Office announcement that stunned official Washington, neither President Bush nor Goss offered a substantive reason for why the head of the spy agency was leaving after only a year on the job.
"He has led ably" in an era of CIA transition, Bush said with Goss seated at his side. "He has a five-year plan to increase the analysts and operatives."
Goss said the trust Bush placed in him "is something I could never have imagined." "I believe the agency is on a very even keel, sailing well," he said.
The official Bush administration spin that emerged later was that Goss lost out in a turf battle with Negroponte, but Goss' tenure was marked by the resignations of several veteran operatives who viewed him as an amateur out of his depth.
White House officials said Bush would announce early next week his choice to succeed Goss. Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, Negroponte's top deputy, heads the list of potential replacements, with White House counterterror chief Fran Townsend also on the short list.
Negroponte "apparently had no confidence" in Goss, and Bush's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board was also "very alarmed by problems at the CIA," said a congressional source involved in oversight of U.S. spy agencies.
"Supposedly the \[Cunningham\] scandal was the last straw," the source said. "This administration may be on the verge of a major scandal."
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Gopher
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| Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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| I thought you were going to wait for his book? |
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canuckistan
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| Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| I thought you were going to wait for his book? |
Yup, I can see it now...
"Hey I had a whale of a time as CIA guy--big poker games, Cuban cigars, hookers...and my friends paid for all of it!! Washington was a *beeping* blast!!!!"
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igotthisguitar
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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 ugly
Really ugly.
I am sure w/o his conspiracy theories Jeff Rense would be selling kiddy porn and drugs |
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Hater Depot
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| Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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I find the possible connections between Goss and the Duke Cunningham/smoky rooms full of hookers story to be, shall we say, intriguing.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/415304p-350961c.html
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WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday amid allegations that he and a top aide may have attended Watergate poker parties where bribes and prostitutes were provided to a corrupt congressman.
Kyle (Dusty) Foggo, the No. 3 official at the CIA, could soon be indicted in a widening FBI investigation of the parties thrown by defense contractor Brent Wilkes, named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the bribery conviction of former Rep. Randall (Duke) Cunningham, law enforcement sources said.
A CIA spokeswoman said Foggo went to the lavish weekly hospitality-suite parties at the Watergate and Westin Grand hotels but "just for poker." |
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