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“Just one of those mysteries”

By Judd Legum on May 6th, 2006 at 6:40 pm

“Just one of those mysteries”

Porter Goss on why he resigned as head of the CIA.

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Cloak & Swagger says:

WTF is this!? A game of Clue!?
Then I think Bush did it, using every weapon, in every room.
I WIN!
Pretty simple conclusion really, considering he’s one of a few who remain in their positions while everyone else just keeps disappearing.
May 6th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
Mel says:

Yeah, right. And Goss told Negroponte “no more death squads.”
May 6th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
Daniel DiRito says:

See a comical look at the speculation surrounding the sudden resignation of Porter Goss here:

http://www.thoughttheater.com
May 6th, 2006 at 7:05 pm
AvengingAngel says:

For Porter Goss, the outing of Valerie Plame was not “one of those mysteries” to worry about:

“Somebody sends me a blue dress and some DNA, I’ll have an investigation.”
Porter Goss, October 2003.
May 6th, 2006 at 7:08 pm
Ben says:

Is he saying he doesn’t know why he resigned?
May 6th, 2006 at 7:27 pm
Marie says:

What, is he waiting for someone to say he was fired?
May 6th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
DrSinker says:

The sad thing is that the MSM reports this BS. Just one of those impending scandals is more like it.
May 6th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
Zookeeper says:

“…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.”

Yeah…right.

This happened so fast Goss couldn’t even figure out he needed to spend more time with his family. Or the whores, whatever. These people lie ALL THE TIME, but they’re not good at it. I’ll bide my time.
May 6th, 2006 at 8:06 pm
james risser says:

as i mentioned last night, i actually visited one of those vile shit-stained pro-bush sites last night, and the miscreants were opining that perhaps goss quit so that he could run in the florida senate seat so that that bat-shit crazy harris woman wouldn’t further embarass the bastards by losing…

has anyone heard this anywhere? just curious….

of course, i still remain hopeful of color photos of mr goss on all fours squeling like a pig…don’t get me wrong here, i pray that it is republican sex-scandal since they are so damned high-minded…

anway, it could be a way to spin the removal of goss to say he was *actually* doing it to be able to run in florida… and, if the nazis can make it until november without the photos of goss being rammed in the anus, then, they will not lose as many seats in the senate?????
May 6th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
LC Liberal says:

Then why did he resign? Maybe we’ll find a stained and torn pair of Goss’ trousers somewhere. That’ll do it. Where is the MSM on this? Not even speculation that the hooker scandal may be the real reason. They’re just playing along with Porter and the White House.

http://www.lcoliberal.blogspot.com
The real reason Porter quit is no “mystery”.
Right now on LCL

http://www.sunstateactivist.org
More on the Goss scandal
May 6th, 2006 at 8:57 pm
Killer Khristol says:

Another Bush Another Hooker Scandal?

On the morning of June 29, 1989, pandemonium erupted in the corridors of power in the nation’s capital. “Homosexual Prostitution Probe Ensnares Official of Bush, Reagan,” screamed the front-page headline of the Washington Times with the kicker “Call Boys Took Midnight Tour of White House.”
The Times reported, “A homosexual prostitution ring is under investigation by federal and District authorities and includes among its clients key officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations, military officers, congressional aides and U.S. and foreign businessmen with close ties to Washington’s political elite.”
Rumors circulated that a list existed of some 200 Washington prominents who had used the call boy service. The Number Two in charge of personnel affairs at the White House, who was responsible for filling all the top civil service posts in the federal bureaucracy, and Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole’s chief of staff, were two individuals publicly identified as patrons of the call boy ring.
You know what I think, [speculate] that their are A WHOLE lot more people involved. Just like last time. Here we have Gannon AKA Guckert and Bush Jr. together,,,Again?
May 6th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
Killer Khristol says:

as i mentioned last night, i actually visited one of those vile shit-stained pro-bush sites last night, and the miscreants were opining that perhaps goss quit so that he could run in the florida senate seat so that that bat-shit crazy harris woman wouldnâ€™t further embarass the bastards by losingâ€¦

has anyone heard this anywhere? just curiousâ€¦

sounds like typical neo-cons practicing their next lies.
May 6th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
Justin says:

Hopefully Tony Snow doesn’t start using that line in press briefings.

Reporter: “Why haven’t we captured Osama bin Laden yet?”

Snow: “Well, it’s just one of those mysteries. Next Question!”
May 6th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
james risser says:

#12

thank you so much for mentioning that! oh, did you realize that the cia probably killed mr spence:

Washington lobbyist Craig Spence, a prominent figure in a Washington male prostitution scandal, apparently committed suicide in a barricaded room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, published reports said.

Spence, 49, was found dead, lying in bed in a black tuxedo after police and firefighters sawed through the barricaded door to Room 429 of the posh hotel shortly before 4 p.m. Friday, officials said.

Results of an autopsy performed Saturday were kept secret, but the Boston Sunday Herald cited police sources who said Spence committed suicide, possibly by drug overdose. The Boston Globe also said Sunday that Spence committed suicide, but did not mention the drug connection.

upi 11.13.89

note to jeff gannon: umm, you may want not stay at the ritz since the blackshirts look to have the keys….
May 6th, 2006 at 10:13 pm
Mash says:

Here’s my look at the developing Porter Goss/Hookergate scandal. Spies, Hookers, and Money, Oh My!
May 6th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
james risser says:

query: did jack abramoff graduate from the craig spence school of lobbying and pimping? abramoff would have been a scraping 21 year old in 1989…maybe he was on the ‘team’…

In June, The Washington Times reported that Spence arranged, with the help of a Secret Service officer, to conduct a private White House tour for two call boys one night in the summer of 1988. He reportedly gave the Secret Service officer a Rolex watch in exchange for his troubles.

…

The New York Post reported that Spence’s parties in Washington included as guests journalists Eric Sevareid, Ted Koppel, the late CIA director William Casey, former Attorney General John Mitchell and conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly.

May 6th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
AvengingAngel says:

Both the Washington Post and the New York Times are now reporting President Bush will name General Hayden head of the CIA on Monday.

For more, see:
“Hayden In, Jury Still Out on Goss Departure.”
May 6th, 2006 at 11:57 pm
Bluein Texas says:

Here’s Dowd’s take on Goss

Poker, Hookers And Spooks
By MAUREEN DOWD
6 May 2006
The New York Times
Late Edition – Final
Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company. All Rights Reserved.
So much news was popping out all over Washington yesterday, it was hard to decide which way to look.
I felt I had no choice but to go with Dusty Foggo, Top Spook.
There was also the story of a Kennedy cover-up, a moonlight car accident and drug abuse. Been there, done that.
And the story of a top U.S. official stuck in the cold war taunting the Russian bear. Been there, done that.
And the story of a delusional secretary of defense being confronted in public for lying about an unpopular war producing a steady stream of body bags. Been there, done that.
But Dusty Foggo? That’s a name for a spy that tops Valerie Plame, or even Valerie Flame.
And when you add Dusty to Duke, you’ve really got something. Dusty was handpicked by Porter Goss in late 2004 to be the No. 3 C.I.A. official, astonishing many agency veterans, according to Newsweek.
Dusty turns out to be a friend of a defense contractor implicated in the federal corruption investigation of the imprisoned Randy ”Duke” Cunningham, a former G.O.P. congressman. The contractor, Brent Wilkes, is entangled in allegations of louche, lewd behavior involving limos, hookers, a poker player with a missing digit who’s from the C.I.A. and nicknamed ”Nine Fingers,” and Watergate hospitality suites where more was offered than just Scotch and pretzels.
Been to the Watergate, haven’t done that.
Yesterday, Porter Goss lost the job he never should have had. After John Negroponte gave Mr. Goss the ax, W. went biking in Beltsville, Md.
When spooks get spiked, W. spins the spokes.
The C.I.A. missed 9/11 and W.M.D., so you’d think President Bush would want a superstar in the job. Instead, he put in a Cheney lackey whose first move was to warn agency employees to get in line, that their job was to ‘’support the administration and its policies.” Mr. Goss’s last move was to fire a top C.I.A. officer, Mary McCarthy, who was accused of, but denied, leaking the secret C.I.A. prisons story.
Mr. Goss got the job even though the 9/11 commissioners had declared that Congressional oversight of intelligence was ”dysfunctional” at a time he ran the House intelligence panel.
He got the job even though he tried to help the vice president suffocate the 9/11 commission. At the C.I.A., he relied on so many cronies, he made Brownie look professional.
The benign but still disturbing explanation for his abrupt termination — given all the home videos that Qaeda terrorists are brazenly sending out — is that he and John ”10 Fingers” Negroponte were fighting over access to W., like teenage girls over the prom king. (Wasn’t Mr. Negroponte’s position created to quell turf battles?)
Even conservatives found yesterday’s chain of events suspicious. Bill Kristol said on Fox News, ”I think there were either serious disputes or some internal problem at the agency or some scandal conceivably involving an associate of Goss’s.”
The president is supposed to announce Mr. Goss’s successor on Monday. It’s clear that the White House is again making policy on the fly.
With all these loony threads, conspiracy theorists are having fun weaving dime-novel scenarios.
After all, Ms. McCarthy, the C.I.A. officer ousted by Porter Goss, worked in the agency’s inspector general’s office. That office — charged with investigating transgressions by C.I.A. employees, like questionable dealings with defense contractors in hotel rooms, with poker and perhaps even pajama games — is now examining Mr. Foggo’s dealings with Mr. Wilkes.
Ms. McCarthy was known to be a supporter of John Kerry, not one of the Bush loyalists who could be counted on to see no evil.
She has been labeled a traitor by the right, just as Ray McGovern, a former C.I.A. analyst who challenges Rummy’s veracity, is being Swift-boated as a nut case and a partisan.
Mr. McGovern and other disgruntled retired spooks say the C.I.A. has been misused, abused and marginalized by the Bush hawks. Rummy even formed his own C.I.A. within the Pentagon to get the prewar intelligence that he and Dick ”Trigger Finger” Cheney wanted to hear.
Are disgusted retired C.I.A. analysts colluding with disgusted retired generals to wreak revenge on Rummy, who ran roughshod over them all? Is W.’s dad sending him a message? Mr. McGovern, oddly enough, was a C.I.A. briefer for Poppy. Or are those just wild Potomac conspiracy theories?
Weirdest of all, Patrick Kennedy’s car accident was just a block or so from Mr. Goss’s Capitol Hill town house. Coincidence?
Hard to tell, in the Foggo of war.

May 7th, 2006 at 12:19 am
jurassicpork says:

Mo Do gives us her take on this X-rated mystery. Better late than never, I guess.

It was Duke Cunningham in the penthouse with a vibrating dildo. There’s your game of Clue.
May 7th, 2006 at 1:11 am
sinus sufferer says:

with all the crap the people we have elected seem to dish out, i find it absolutely amazing that anybody even lives in the usa anymore.

read the signs people; everybody hates the usa due to the stupidity of a few, and i honestly bellieve that sooner or later enough will be enough and i dont want to think what will happen, but i can assure you of this though. i wont be in the usa when it does happen! im so sick of being made to feel afraid of some potential pandemic or terrorist attack. seems our government has recognized that through fear they can control the masses.

i like how another poster was saying he was gonna move to a neutral country like switzerland; hey just do it! pack up and go, heck you can actually set up a swiss post bank account for free online if you want to, and you will be a lot safer that way with how things are going down hill fast now in this country.
May 7th, 2006 at 1:56 am
Eric says:

Any minute now, Goss will run out of the Village yelling, “I am not a number. I am a free man!”
May 7th, 2006 at 6:49 am
Kurt says:

anyone supporting Idiot and Co. anymore is “just one of those mysteries”
May 7th, 2006 at 7:46 am
Mack MacKenzie says:

Here’s a mystery for you… how has BushCo avoided being impeached?
May 7th, 2006 at 8:07 am
Zookeeper says:

#9 – Desperation or grasping — whichever you like best.
May 7th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Marie says:

#12 KK
Ver-r-y interesting!!
May 7th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
kindness says:

Of COURSE Foggo & Goss are caught up in an unethical dilema with Defense Contractor & Bribery prince Wilkes. It all fits now. Cheney pushed Goss into the #1 spot at CIA & Goss immediately puts Foggo in as #3. It’s all about the money.

Well, power & money. But how could you not make money if you controlled not only the CIA (beneficial official findings come in handy when you neeed to start bogus wars across the globe) but the Defense Dept, the Executive Branch. They (Darth Cheney’s band of brothers, neocon collaborators, are now making bank on everything. EVERYTHING.

But, we have a problem here Mr, Darth, apparently a couple of numbsculls over at CIA have been caught gambling with shady corporate types & hookers, and seem to have profited from a relationship with a less than ethical FELON defense businessman. They got caught! Can you believe it?

This is our godsend. What I can’t understand is why they would go to such lengths, to abuse and discredit the very fabric of our government, just for money. It’s so sad & shallow that it at least gives a clearer picture.

Darth & the boys, they are more like Mr. Burns on the Simpsons than any of us had ever believed or thought possible.
May 7th, 2006 at 7:48 pm
Bowdler says:

goss’s resignation a mystery? How about a herd of hookers, a covey of corrupt congressmen, a load of litiginized lobbiests, and a warren of wealthy war profiteers. Sung to the tune of twelve days of christmas, it would still be nonsense.
May 7th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
Stupid Republicans says:

You know Rove was doing these guys too. Not only will he be indicted in the Plame outing, he will be indicted for buying manass.

Is there a republican who aint gay or a pedophile?
May 7th, 2006 at 10:40 pm

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