[tag]Bush[\/tag] announced this afternoon that [tag]CIA[\/tag] Director [tag]Porter Goss[\/tag] has resigned. More soon.<\/p>\n
Update<\/i>: If you’ll consider some speculation, it’s worth remembering that Goss’ name has been bandied about little lately for his possible ties to an unfortunate controversy some have started to call “[tag]hookergate[\/tag].”<\/p>\n
The same defense contractors who bribed Duke [tag]Cunningham[\/tag] also allegedly provided Cunningham, and possibly others, with “free limousine service, free stays at hotel suites at the [tag]Watergate[\/tag] and the Westin Grand, and free prostitutes<\/a>.”<\/p>\n Ken Silverstein at Harper’s blog reported<\/a> last week that he had learned “from a well-connected source that those 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.” Given the description, questions were immediately raised about Goss, though a spokesperson for the CIA vehemently denied<\/a> the possibility.<\/p>\n Also noteworthy was that Goss tapped Kyle “Dusty” [tag]Foggo[\/tag], Cunningham briber Brent [tag]Wilkes[\/tag]’ life-long best friend, to be the Executive Director of the CIA, despite questions<\/a> about his qualifications and background. In fact, Foggo is now under [tag]investigation[\/tag] by the CIA’s inspector general to determine whether he helped Wilkes gain CIA contracts.<\/p>\n And today, out of the blue and with no rumors about his tenure, Goss resigned from the CIA. Hmm.<\/p>\n Update Two<\/i>: Oh yeah, you’ll notice that the resignation was announced on a Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n Update Three<\/i>: Also, no reference to Goss is complete without mentioning that in July 2003, when reports first surfaced that the White House leaked classified information to reporters, then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss said, “If somebody sends me a [tag]blue dress[\/tag] and some [tag]DNA[\/tag]<\/a>, I will have an investigation.” Something to keep in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [tag]Bush[\/tag] announced this afternoon that [tag]CIA[\/tag] Director [tag]Porter Goss[\/tag] has resigned. More soon. Update: If you’ll consider some speculation, it’s worth remembering that Goss’ name has been bandied about little lately for his possible ties to an unfortunate controversy some have started to call “[tag]hookergate[\/tag].” The same defense contractors who bribed Duke [tag]Cunningham[\/tag] also allegedly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}