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May 05, 2006

Goss resigns at CIA

Hacktackular GOP stalwart Porter Goss has abruptly resigned as CIA Chief:

No reason was given for Goss' resignation, but the White House has been in the midst of an administration shakeup since Josh Bolten took over as chief of staff.

Goss' resignation was based on a "mutual understanding" between Bush, national intelligence director John Negroponte and Goss, a senior Bush administration official told the Reuters news agency.

The White House is going out of their way to spin this as Goss being in a "transitional" head of the CIA..and that they knew all along his tenure would be short. Which is of course utter bullshit--because they'd have sold his confirmation that way if it were true.

Further, Goss' departure was a complete surprise to intelligence officials:

Jamie McIntyre, CNN’s senior Pentagon correspondent:

Well you know Tony we’re trying to find the story behind the story, what’s actually going on here with Porter Goss. And talking with intelligence officials here in the building, I can tell you it came as a complete surprise to them. In fact, Porter Goss was apparently supposed to attend a regularly scheduled afternoon meeting that takes place right about this time in the afternoon. The Defense Department has representatives there and, according to sources, none of the people at that meeting had any advance word that Porter Goss was going to be tendering his resignation.

So it indicates the sudden nature that this took place, and again it just fuels the speculation of what the real backstory is here. And again, nobody here seems to know. They are all all just really surprised, they had no idea this was coming. And they’re really just wondering what was actually behind it.

Posted by Carla at May 5, 2006 01:52 PM

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