Porter Goss and Hookergate (Part 1 of 2)

Filed at 9:31 pm, Saturday May 06th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

After that embarrassing Washington Post mixup (although I bet you didn’t even notice until I pointed it out), I promised to write on Goss again by the end of the day. So here we go.
Despite Goss own apparent insistence that he himself isn’t quite sure why he was fired (he shrugged off questions from the […]

The WaPo’s Doppleganger Goss article

Filed at 6:30 pm, Saturday May 06th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

Well I feel like an idiot. I probably hinted last night that I’d heard that we would be hearing more about Goss on Saturday. I had heard that Washington Post was going to publish an important article on his resignation, so when this article (entitled Goss Forced Out as CIA Director; Gen. Hayden Is Likely […]

Rumors: Second big CIA resignation to occur next week

Filed at 3:30 pm, Saturday May 06th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

Okay, these aren’t really rumors, they’re a fact thing at this point. Goss’ third in command, CIA Executive Director Kyle Foggo (or “Dusty” has his friends supposedly call him) has told his buddies (presumably the same ones who call him “Dusty” that he’ll be announcing his resignation sometime next week.
Foggo of course is implicated perhaps […]

Countdown clip: Shuster on Goss, Rove

Filed at 12:30 pm, Saturday May 06th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

Crooks & Liars has an interesting dual-topic video from Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night, in which NBC/MSNBC reporter David Shuster talked both about Goss’ resignation and of course Libby’s trial. I don’t know how good his sources are for the Hookergate/Goss story are, but he sounded pretty solid.
Shuster of course has been doing an […]

Goss resignation explained (partially), plus what to expect in a replacement

Filed at 11:30 am, Saturday May 06th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

Previously:

-White House: CIA Chief Porter Goss resigns
-Porter Goss Resignation Rumors
Washington Post claims to have the inside goods of what went down concerning Porter Goss’ resignation yesterday afternoon. According to the WaPo, the President ‘lost confidence’ in Goss shortly after he took office, and had been planning to replace him by the end of the year. […]

Porter Goss Resignation Rumors

Filed at 7:30 pm, Friday May 05th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

Earlier today, CIA Director and Bush appointee Porter Goss resigned. I wrote a little bit about him here, after he resigned, in which I mentioned that he was unqualified for his job by his own direct admission. I didn’t speculate at the time about the reasons for the abrupt and unexpected resignation however (FDL has […]



Asides


 # Eugene Robinson eviscerates McCain on the economy

 # McCain & Palin are lying about their crowd sizes


 # Vote caging by the McCain campaign?

 # More of the same lies: Palin links Iraq with 9/11