What Hath Goss Wrought?!

It’s true that Porter J. Goss who became director of the CIA in September 2004 never got along with John Negroponte who was made Director of National Intelligence in February 2005. And when the MSM says Negroponte had become “disenchanted” with Goss, it’s the understatement of the year. But it’s ridiculous to suggest that Goss resigned solely because of hostility between him and Negroponte. More likely, Negroponte, along with the entire Bush cabinet and cadre of Bush advisors saw that Goss’s behavior and associations with people involved in huge scandals (like Randall “Duke” Cunningham and Brent Wilkes) was going to poison the well and Goss was told to resign or else. Already the Internet is rife with stories about Goss attending Wilkes’s poker-and-hooker parties and that those parties were under FBI surveillance. Not to mention Goss ‘s strange loyalty to Kyle “Dusty” Foggo. Goss made Foggo the third-ranking official of the CIA even though Foggo had no discernible credentials for the position. And now Foggo is being investigated for CIA contract irregularities. And we can’t forget Foggo’s little poker-and-hooker parties attended by Porter J. Goss. The movers and shakers in Washington DC are not going to get into tar-and-feather mode over a few parties with hookers. But the latest allegation is that Goss is up to his neck in the Gannon scandal that provided guys to the guys. And that kind of fucking around is a little too fancy even on Capitol Hill. Of course the resignation of Porter J. Goss was announced on Friday. The White House assumes the stories of their dishonor and humiliation won’t get maximum coverage if it’s divulged on a Friday. They’ve got to be kidding! The Sunday morning talking heads think they’ve died and gone to heaven with a story like Goss’s resignation. Who would have thought on that sad morning of November 3, 2004 when George W. Bush crowed about his re-election, that the White House would be in such chaos and dishonor a year-and-a-half later? Or, a better question is: Who would have thought that all the corruption and malfeasance that we knew was going on in the Bush administration would actually be made public?