That sounds like admin-flavored spin to me. This is interesting....

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.



>>Perry... relax. The Iraq story isnt about sex, so its not as important. This story http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000494.php is though, so it may get coverage. Interesting that the Watergate received subpoenas for records just about the same time Goss resigned. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12634250. You cant turn around without another cluster making news.
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>>FBI agents are investigating what happened in the hotel's posh suites, which defense contractor Brent Wilkes turned into party suites for politicians and CIA officers. There was poker and cigars, and the FBI wants to know if there were prostitutes, too.
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>>An interesting quote from http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/008375.php:
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>>We don't know definitely why Goss pulled the plug yet. But the CIA Director doesn't march over to the White House and resign, effective immediately, unless something very big is up.
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>An interesting point from John Podhoretz http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YjdhMWMwODY4YjFmYTIwYTIyZGI1ZjZiMzM2YjY4NWM=
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>I doubt there's a big scandal here, if only because the president chose to appear with Goss to announce the resignation. If Goss were somehow implicated in matters relating to Duke Cunningham, say, there's no way on earth Bush would have made such a friendly show of his departure. Seems more likely to me that there was some kind of showdown between Goss and Negroponte and Negroponte said, "Either he goes or I go," and there Goss went.