BREAKING: CIA Director Porter Goss Resigns
BREAKING: CIA Director Porter Goss Resigns
UPDATE: AP has the story.
UPDATE II: We’ve put together a primer on the connection between Goss and the Cunningham scandal:
For more than a decade, Cunningham-linked defense contractor Brent Wilkes curried favor with lawmakers and CIA officials by hosting weekly parties at lavish hospitality suites at the Watergate and Westin hotels in Washington. Guests would gamble, socialize, and sometimes receive prostitutes; according to Harper’s magazine, the festivities “began early with poker games and degenerated” into what one source described “as a ‘frat party’ scene — real bacchanals.”
GOSS’ NO. 3 ADMITS ATTENDING PARTIES: The highest-ranking CIA official to admit he attended the poker parties thrown by Wilkes is Executive Director Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, the agency’s third-ranking official. (Foggo even “occasionally hosted the poker parties at his house in northern Virginia,” though he denies ever seeing prostitutes at the gatherings.) Foggo’s connections to Wilkes and fellow contractor Mitchell Wade are now the focus of an investigation into CIA contracts by the agency’s inspector general, first made public in March. One of Wilkes’ companies, Archer Logistics, won a contract to provide supplies to CIA agents in Afghanistan and Iraq despite having “no previous experience with such work, having been founded a few months before the contract was granted.”
GOSS CONNECTED? Last week, Harper’s magazine reported that party-goers “under intense scrutiny by the FBI are current and former lawmakers on Defense and Intelligence committees — including one person who now holds a powerful intelligence post.” CIA Director Porter Goss is perhaps the only individual who fits such a description. (Goss denied the accusations through a spokesperson.) But the alleged links between Goss, Foggo, and Wilkes led some to return to questions raised when Goss initially selected Foggo to be executive director in November 2004. At the time, the decision was viewed with skepticism since Foggo’s previous position was as a “midlevel procurement supervisor,” and because following his unexpected selection, “Porter Goss lieutenant Patrick Murray went to then-Associate Deputy Director of Operations for Counterintelligence Mary Margaret Graham and informed her that if anything leaked about other Goss appointments — in particular, Foggo’s — she would be held responsible.”
Project on Government Oversight fellow Jason Vest reported last week that much of Foggo’s counterintelligence file “has to do with various social encounters over the years, none of which he’s been deceptive about when polygraphed, and all of which have been deemed to be of no threat to operational security — but are still the types of things that could be embarrassing for Goss and the Agency.” Vest suggests the latest reports raise important questions about the “relationship between Foggo and Wilkes, and the relationship of each with Goss.”
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Holy flucking schmidt. Glad he waited ’til Friday to announce.
May 5th, 2006 at 1:52 pmHookergate?
May 5th, 2006 at 1:52 pmI smell hookers…
May 5th, 2006 at 1:53 pm“Dusty” Foggo just pissed in his shoes.
May 5th, 2006 at 1:54 pmHeck of a job, Porter.’He served ably’.
May 5th, 2006 at 1:54 pmwho’s next?
May 5th, 2006 at 1:54 pmApparently there are pictures of Goss getting a lap-dance from Lady Chablis at the Watergate.
His hasty departure smells mighty fishy.
-GSD
May 5th, 2006 at 1:54 pmWas he playing “poker”…or “poke her”?
May 5th, 2006 at 1:55 pmRemind me to never stay at the watergate.
Bad things man.
May 5th, 2006 at 1:55 pmHow did that guy ever get a security clearance?!
May 5th, 2006 at 1:55 pmI never had sex with those hookers…I think…OK I was drinking heavily at the time…I can’t remember shit.
May 5th, 2006 at 1:57 pmthis announcement makes me so happy, NOW I want to go pick up a hooker and have some fun at the watergate
May 5th, 2006 at 1:57 pmThe clearly happened because a Kennedy is a drunk.
May 5th, 2006 at 1:58 pm#12 Greg . . . . good one! :)
May 5th, 2006 at 2:00 pmThe clearly happened because a Kennedy is a drunk.
Comment by LUH-3417 — May 5, 2006 @ 1:58 pm
Sadly a story that will get more air time than Rumsfelds lies:(
May 5th, 2006 at 2:02 pmLimbaugh just shrugged this off, said Goss did a great job and deserves to retire.
If Rush won’t touch it, it’s BAD.
May 5th, 2006 at 2:02 pmfrist said it was clinton’s fault
May 5th, 2006 at 2:03 pmCan Cheney and Bushie be the next two to resign?
May 5th, 2006 at 2:05 pmWow the MSM is all over this story! They have taken stenography to a new level, regarding the underlying reasons behind this. Maybe they took Colbert’s advice to heart…
May 5th, 2006 at 2:08 pmMaybe they took Colbert’s advice to heart…
Comment by avh — May 5, 2006 @ 2:08 pm
Wouldn’t that be nice? But if it’s anything like kids who get in trouble, the ensuing good behavior only lasts for a week or two…
May 5th, 2006 at 2:12 pmLet’s hold the jubilation until we find out what nutjob is replacing him folks.
But yeah, he’s gotta be dirty.
May 5th, 2006 at 2:12 pmFabulous news the Bush Regime is starting to collapse > Porter Goss is one of Bush’s thugs! Ray McGovern has caused a revolt in the CIA against Bush! Sing and dance everyone > glorious news!
May 5th, 2006 at 2:13 pmIt must have been that last limo ride; well probably the actual contracting of that limo service over the last two years. How did a company so corrupt and so screwed up get the contract in the first place?? I can also imagine there must be something that Jack boy is saying to the Feds as well, not just Wilkes and da dukester.
May 5th, 2006 at 2:14 pmHe got caught with his pants down. Who’s next on the list to go because there were so many playing with hooker girls/boys. Yes Snow will report from ABC news aka Fox news which is run by the Bush Administration that Bill Clinton did it and all the problems crimes committed were done by Clinton. Look Bush is religious and in his religion run by Satan its ok to lie, cheat, torture and steal. Look Bush has all the church goes supporting his and his religious beliefs. Thats the new American way. Remember Bush said if your not with him and Satan your against him and Satan.
May 5th, 2006 at 2:15 pmThere is definitely more to this story.
If he were truly just a transitional director and the latest in the white house shake up - as they are claiming he is - then they would have had a replacement for him already.
Besides - less than two years is even short for a “transitional director.”
May 5th, 2006 at 2:15 pmA must-read story over at Alternet:
http://www.alternet.org/story/35841/
Yikes — this may actually tie back into the Contra fiasco during the Reagan administration!
May 5th, 2006 at 2:18 pmGambling & hookers . . . what, no drugs? I thought hookers and coke went, erm, hand in hand.
Please please please let me get what I want.
May 5th, 2006 at 2:19 pmDr Sinker: Let’s hold the jubilation until we find out what nutjob is replacing him folks. - - Hey, that’s what CRONY, UNQUALIFIED nutjob is replacing him folks.
May 5th, 2006 at 2:21 pmSome juicy info “http://waynemadsen.com” …sounds like much more to come.
May 5th, 2006 at 2:22 pmGood-bye, Mr. “I’m Not Qualified.” Interesting, VERY interesting. This will do in place of Fitzo de Mayo — for a short time.
May 5th, 2006 at 2:24 pmHaven’t read on the Gannon news of the day, but it would be such perfect justice if that played a role in Goss’ sudden “retirement” !!!
I love Fridays!!
May 5th, 2006 at 2:24 pmUm, Seixon? Any comments?
May 5th, 2006 at 2:26 pmThe Hindenburg is soaring!
May 5th, 2006 at 2:28 pmHOLLY SHIT WE WANTMORE , MORE RESIGNATIONS YOU’VE GOT MOJO NOW GEORGES DO’NT STOP NOW
May 5th, 2006 at 2:31 pm#23 Sad that ordinary Americans have to look to their spooks to save their democracy….the irony is depressing
May 5th, 2006 at 2:33 pmI think we’re going to find its a lot more than just hookers.
Wade, MZM and the deliciously “kooky” Ms. Harris are up to . . . . Hey, does she know Porter?
Keep looking & Follow the money.
May 5th, 2006 at 2:33 pmTo add a correct on #30 The appropriate link should have been
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com
Sorry about that…
May 5th, 2006 at 2:33 pmWhere are the stupid trolls now?
Probably hiding the kiddie porn.
May 5th, 2006 at 2:33 pmClinton’s sex life is hum-drum compared to the lives of the gays, johns and pedophiles the GOP consists of.
#26GW SC
May 5th, 2006 at 2:33 pmThat was precisely my first thought when I heard the bulletin at the office today. Bush said he was a “transitional” director — when did he ever say that in reference to Goss before?
If he was indeed transitional, why isn’t his replacement ready and waiting in the wings, all ready to step in?
This is very sudden, giving credence to all the speculation revolving around the scandals in D.C.
The MSM will talk about Kennedy’s traffic accident today - whether he drunk or medically impaired (forgetting about Cheney’s having shot someone with a shotgun when he was drunk last month), but this announcement should put that story aside.
The corruption and rumors in D.C. are gaining momentum, like a snowball rolling downhill, gathering many insiders along with it. Good riddance to every one of them.
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, etc. should join them very soon.
Let’s see, Rumsfeld claims not being linked to intelligence, Porter Goss resigns… WHO’S AT THE INTEL’S WHEEL RIGHT NOW?
May 5th, 2006 at 2:36 pmHa! I just looked at the CNN homepage, and there’s the same picture as above with Georgie and Goss, but there’s a big “Breaking News” banner about how a teen in Florida was suffocated by gaurds in a boot camp. Can we say “distraction?” Rita Cosby’s going to be all over this one. :)
May 5th, 2006 at 2:38 pmNow if someone would just give Bush a blowjob….
May 5th, 2006 at 2:41 pmI just heard Stansfield Turner on CNN and then MSNBC opine that it iwas because Goss didn’t get the DCI job that went to Negroponte.
May 5th, 2006 at 2:42 pmSince when does someone get passed over for a promotion and then quite in a snit MONTHS later on a Friday without giving Bush a chance to name a replacement?
Did the FBI/CIA “forget” to do background checks on Goss and “Dusty” Foggo?
May 5th, 2006 at 2:42 pm[…] has resigned, President Bush just announced. Goss hadn’t even been in the job for two years — perhaps “Hookergate” and the Duke Cunningham scandals are getting a bit too close? Think Progress links Goss to Cunningham scandal. […]
May 5th, 2006 at 2:42 pmHoly crap…CNN says Lieberman on the short list to replace Goss. Just what we need.
May 5th, 2006 at 2:43 pm#41 That’s right. It’s as bad as you think.
Either the Chimp or Shotgun Dick.
Maybe we should consider selling a forest to out source intel to Mossad?
May 5th, 2006 at 2:43 pmHmmmmm, now where’s the “DNA sample & the blue dress”…
May 5th, 2006 at 2:44 pmBig Hookergate News - CIA Director Goss Resigns…
I don’t know if you have been following the story about the corrupt defense contractor providing hookers for Republican members of Congress who were providing him with huge defense contracts. See Hookergate: Everybody Wants a Piece of the Action, Who….
May 5th, 2006 at 2:45 pmTonight Karl Rove will be trolling the DC streets in his Jaguar to disappear another young attractive blonde. We need a distraction, quick!
May 5th, 2006 at 2:48 pmhookers and coke?
to those who wondered why plamegate, NSA spying, etc didnt get much publicity - rest easy on this one. one thing Americans like is a sex scandal !
May 5th, 2006 at 2:49 pmAnyone else think Fitz and the grand jury meeting today could possibly have something to do with this?
May 5th, 2006 at 2:50 pmnot to be missed: Republican Hypocrisy Revealed
May 5th, 2006 at 2:51 pmDusty Foggo? Is that his real name or his porn star name?
May 5th, 2006 at 2:53 pm[…] Learn about the backstory HERE. […]
May 5th, 2006 at 2:56 pmLarry Flynt was right about Republicans.
May 5th, 2006 at 2:58 pmThey are horny little devils.
Last speculation I heard was Negroponte wanted Goss out and Hayden wants the job. I doubt having the former director of the NSA is going to help the CIA much.
May 5th, 2006 at 3:04 pmIt is obvious that Rep. Cunningham spilled the beans on all his GOP pals, because he got convicted and a prison term! This DC scandal is still in the breaking faze, but at least 6 GOP Representatives are involved and Porter Goss who just resigned as Director of the CIA! So far it is unknown if the hookers were female, male or both?! Not known yet if they are over 18 or underage prostitutes?! This is a HUGE story yet to unfold everyone!!!
May 5th, 2006 at 3:05 pmThe owners of these airline companies include many Iran-Contra veterans who were responsible for flying arms and drugs for the CIA in the 1980s.
Comment by deepthinker — May 5, 2006 @ 2:22 pm
Knowing this bunch’s track record, an exposed Hassenfus will be popping up shortly to provide context and backstory.
May 5th, 2006 at 3:06 pmSomeone did give bush a blowjob, jeff gannon. Only difference is that he swallows and does not wear a blue dress.
May 5th, 2006 at 3:07 pm[…] Amidst all this early speculation, there was little mention of perhaps the most relevant possibility – Goss’s involvement in the Cunningham scandal and an alleged prostitution ring. […]
May 5th, 2006 at 3:08 pm#59 Right on Jay, Cunningham cooperated with investigators. Goss is just the beginning.
Good bye sexually deviant republicans.
KY Jelly stock up 15 points!
May 5th, 2006 at 3:09 pmThe Watergate Hotel. An non-living thing that helps this country when in need more than any Democrat or member of the press ever has.
May 5th, 2006 at 3:12 pmThe comments on this update could fill an SNL skit or two. :)
May 5th, 2006 at 3:17 pmThe Watergate Hotel. An non-living thing that helps this country when in need more than any Democrat or member of the press ever has.
Comment by dlet — May 5, 2006 @ 3:12 pm
Funny… but yet sad that an inanimate object has more integrity than the lot of Democrats on Capital Hill combined. We really need some new political parties.
May 5th, 2006 at 3:26 pmFirst a burglary at the Watergate during Nixon’s term and now turd burglary at the Watergate during Shrub’s. Some things never change.
May 5th, 2006 at 3:28 pmGay basher and closet homosexual Cunningham’s Bacchanals probably included both male and female prostitutes. The party animals may not have included animals but plenty of other indiscretions. Hypocrites such as these are starting to look as disgusting and farcical as the leadership of the religious right leaders of dogma and dead faith.
May 5th, 2006 at 3:29 pmhttp://tinyurl.com/a6erq
HELP IMPEACH!!!
May 5th, 2006 at 3:33 pmPost 68 perhaps Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are involved too? One can only hope > lol.
May 5th, 2006 at 3:36 pm[…] CIA Director Porter Goss Resigns […]
May 5th, 2006 at 3:36 pm[…] Hmmm, does this mean investigators had tied Goss to the Cunningham scandal? Think Progress connects the dots. See also Peter Daou. […]
May 5th, 2006 at 3:38 pmWait… it’s not okay if it’s an intern, but it is okay if it’s a Hooker?
Help me out here…
May 5th, 2006 at 4:29 pm#64
Well said.
May 5th, 2006 at 4:38 pmYou would think these prime examples of why human sacrifice should be brought back,would conduct their freak parties at Motel 6 or someplace low key instead of the place that brought down their hero Nixon. Hubris ain’t Gomer Pyle’s cousin.
May 5th, 2006 at 4:38 pmWell, Feliz Cinco de Mayo.
May 5th, 2006 at 4:40 pm[…] But there is a scandal brewing over lobbyist sponsored “frat boy bacchanals” in DC. And there have been subpoenas issued, and the johns in question do look like they’re all good, upstanding republicans. […]
May 5th, 2006 at 4:42 pm… At least clinton didn’t have to pay for it …
May 5th, 2006 at 5:06 pmIt’s raining men halleluyah, it’s raining men, Amen.
May 5th, 2006 at 5:17 pmTonight Karl Rove will be trolling the DC streets in his Jaguar to disappear another young attractive blonde. We need a distraction, quick!
Comment by Boy Genius
To Boy Genius,
May 5th, 2006 at 7:02 pmAn attractive blonde male or female?
[…] Think Progress sees it as a preemptive move to avoid a burgeoning Duke Cunningham scandal involving Goss appointee Kyle Foggo… […]
May 5th, 2006 at 8:38 pmAt least Clinton could shag em’ down without havin’ to pay for it.
May 5th, 2006 at 11:38 pm[…] I guess everyone has already heard about Goss resigning as head of the CIA. People have started asking themselves why did he resign? What is cooking that he doesn’t want to be a part of? I’m pretty sure that it’s not because some watercooler ran out of water. A sex scandal? Cover ops in Iran? Another spy program about to blow? It will be interesting to see how the whole thing plays out. […]
May 6th, 2006 at 1:54 amGoss Resignation Linked to Lobbyist-Hookers Scandal?…
Was CIA Director Porter Goss’ abrupt resignation because he’s about to get exposed as a regular attendee of gambling and prostitution parties from a defense contractor?…
May 6th, 2006 at 2:27 amPORTER GOSS WAS THE BEST DIRECTOR EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE NEED MORE MEN WHO CAN LOOK AT HUMAN LIVES AS MERE STATISTICS!!
May 6th, 2006 at 5:58 amYOUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS — FUNNELED TO CRONIES — WHO GIVE KICKBACKS TO CONGRESSMEN AND THE CIA DIRECTOR — IN THE FORM OF HOOKERS!!
THANK GOD our most Christian President George Bush has returned honesty and integrity to Washington!
May 6th, 2006 at 10:31 amThis episode invites many questions. Is it not merely another example of the orgy of violence and filth and greed that has been vomiting out of Washington DC like sewage for the last six years? Porter Goss is a sewer roach, crushed by his own imbecility in a homosexual honey trap arranged by a foreign government. He has made a laughing stock of the agency since his appointment. Along with Libby, Perle, Feith, Abramoff, Card and all the other failed political crooks, he has become the latest embarrassment and victim of the Project for a New American Century, that litany of scum and toilet paper peddled by sewer roach Wolfowitz and sewer CEO, Cheyne. A fitting end for Goss causing further serious damage to the neo conservatives. Fire The Liars! Kick Israel Out Of DC!
May 6th, 2006 at 7:27 pm# 61 Doesn’t Condi Rice do all W’s blow jobs?
May 6th, 2006 at 7:48 pmMs. Smythe - Cute name - your parents must have waited to get a look at you before they settled on such a charming moniker. Again, thank you for reiterrating the voracious anti-Semitism of many on the Left. No one can convey it as well as a committed prog….
May 6th, 2006 at 8:41 pmAgain, thank you for reiterrating the voracious anti-Semitism of many on the Left. No one can convey it as well as a committed prog….
Comment by mighty aphrodite —
Mighty Hypocrite,
May 6th, 2006 at 11:10 pmYou apparently haven’t read anything by David Duke, a Republican and former head of the KKK. He and the neo-Nazis in various countries deny that the Holocaust even happened.
In reality, anti-Semites exist on both sides of the political spectrum. Get that in your thick head.
The only logical reason for the mad rush to get Goss out the door is that he posed a direct threat to Bush.
Why?
Goss is getting nervous about Foggo et al and wants Bush’s backing to keep his job. He doesn’t get it, Bush’s loyalty is only one-way.
Goss then tries to rummage in the CIA archives for so dirt on the BUsh family as insurance.
Baker gets to hear of this and Goss loses his head — real damn fast.
Seems like no other scenario has such a high urgency factor.
May 7th, 2006 at 3:38 amNUMBER 43 HE DON’T GET THEM HE GIVES THEM
May 7th, 2006 at 11:42 am[…] His name is Brant Bassett. He is identified by Newsweek only as “a former Goss aide,” but that’s an understatement. Congressional expenditure reports show he was actually the staff director of the House Intelligence Committee while Porter Goss was committee chairman. Bassett is the second Goss aide to be linked to the parties, in addition to Kyle “Dusty” Foggo. […]
May 8th, 2006 at 3:30 pm[…] His name is Brant Bassett. He is identified by Newsweek only as “a former Goss aide,” but that’s an understatement. Congressional expenditure reports show he was actually the staff director of the House Intelligence Committee while Porter Goss was committee chairman. Bassett is the second Goss aide to be linked to the parties, in addition to Kyle “Dusty” Foggo. […]
May 8th, 2006 at 7:08 pm[…] But as my progress report that I get daily from Think Progress noted, there may be more to it than that. According to think progress, Goss may be deeply involved in the Duke "I Love Hookers" Cunningham scandal. Here's a few choice snippets from Think Progress on Goss's connection to Brent Wilkes, the defense contractor who has been linked to Cunningham and his sex parties. The highest-ranking CIA official to admit he attended the poker parties thrown by Wilkes is Executive Director Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, the agency’s third-ranking official. (Foggo even “occasionally hosted the poker parties at his house in northern Virginia,” though he denies ever seeing prostitutes at the gatherings.) Last week, Harper’s magazine reported that party-goers “under intense scrutiny by the FBI are current and former lawmakers on Defense and Intelligence committees — including one person who now holds a powerful intelligence post.” CIA Director Porter Goss is perhaps the only individual who fits such a description. (Goss denied the accusations through a spokesperson.) But the alleged links between Goss, Foggo, and Wilkes led some to return to questions raised when Goss initially selected Foggo to be executive director in November 2004. At the time, the decision was viewed with skepticism since Foggo’s previous position was as a “midlevel procurement supervisor,” and because following his unexpected selection, “Porter Goss lieutenant Patrick Murray went to then-Associate Deputy Director of Operations for Counterintelligence Mary Margaret Graham and informed her that if anything leaked about other Goss appointments — in particular, Foggo’s — she would be held responsible.” […]
May 14th, 2006 at 3:09 am[…] While the above events from the late 80's/early 90's are not directly related to Cunningham's current scandal, it should concern all citizens that such actions appear to be repeating themselves. […]
May 16th, 2006 at 4:32 am[…] A couple of weeks have passed since I last clicked on the Blogsnow link on my Firefox toolbar. Scrolling down the list of today’s hot topics, I ignore references to Michele Malkin’s latest tirade (no, I won’t link to her) on Patrick Kennedy’s traffic accident and subsequent lame excuse, or to comments on the sudden resignation of CIA’s Porter Goss (nice name…), or how Bill Gates wishes he weren’t so rich. […]
June 18th, 2006 at 10:04 am[…] Jeff Gannon is old news, and the allegations about the current Watergate II scandal involved members of congress and the CIA and possibly male prostitutes. I wonder how many tapes the NSA has of homosexual trysts involving Republicans. Posted by whig Filed in Thoughts […]
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