So, Goss's sudden, highly unusual resignation is no longer an issue?

[Stevendsmith]

On Saturday, the media bobbleheads were all abuzz about the lack of an offical reason for the resignation.

But today it is no longer a question.

It has disappeared into the ether.

Go figure.

[MrModerate]

1. Just "one of those mysteries," I guess . . . n/t

[Lerkfish]

2. the lapdog media has been well trained to ignore Friday news dumps

by the next monday.

here ya go, prevcious, here's a kibble.

good doggie. Stop peeing on yourself.

[ROakes1019]

3. Negroponte

Negroponte admitted he was let go, fired, in other words. This was done, I'm sure, so Hayden could be put in as a lapdog on illegal wiretapping and Iran.

[depakid]

4. Par for the course

Anyone who thought Colbert calling them out would change one damn thing were fooling themselves again.

They only thing that's going to change the coporate media's behavior is divestment and re-regulation.

[BurtWorm]

5. It will come back.

Just as Wilson/Plame came back.

[MADem]

6. Aren't you reading the papers????

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0508/dailyUpdate.html

Report: Scandal may have played role in Goss resignation

Media sources say a corruption investigation may have forced White House to act quickly on Goss, and may also touch other defense and intelligence officials.

By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com

A widening investigation into a corruption scandal in Congress may have played a key role in the decision by the White House to ask Central Intelligence Agency Director Porter Goss to step down.
The New York Daily News reported Sunday that a "little known White House advisory board" pushed President Bush to dump Mr. Goss as CIA head. The president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board was reportedly alarmed by the investigation of a spreading corruption scandal that had already looked into the actions of the CIA's number three official and its executive director, Kyle Dustin (Dusty) Foggo, and may have indirectly touched on Goss himself.

The investigations have focused on the Watergate poker parties thrown by defense contractor Brent Wilkes, a high-school buddy of Foggo's, that were attended by disgraced former Rep. Randy (Duke) Cunningham and other lawmakers. Foggo has claimed he went to the parties "just for poker" amid allegations that Wilkes, a top GOP fund-raiser and a member of the $100,000 "Pioneers" of Bush's 2004 reelection campaign, provided prostitutes, limos and hotel suites to Cunningham.
Cunningham is serving an eight-year sentence after pleading to taking $2.4 million in bribes to steer defense contracts to cronies. Wilkes hosted regular parties for 15 years at the Watergate and Westin Grand Hotels for lawmakers and lobbyists. Intelligence sources said Goss has denied attending the parties as CIA director, but that left open whether he may have attended as a Republican congressman from Florida who was head of the House Intelligence Committee.

Harpers.org, the website of Harper's Magazine, reported in late April that the FBI was investigating "current and former lawmakers on Defense and Intelligence comittees" as part of the scandal investigation. The Wall Street Journal also reported that in recent weeks the FBI has interviewed women from escort services in the Washington area, as well as obtained information from the Watergate Hotel, where many of the poker parties were allegedly held. While no other member of Congress has been implicated so far, if the FBI finds evidence of favors being given to lawmakers, it could lead to charges. ...

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=15751
Goss resignation ignites DC firestorm

White House press photoBy Shaun Waterman in Washington, DC for ISN Security Watch (08/05/06)


The sudden resignation of CIA Director Porter Goss has ignited a firestorm of speculation in Washington, coming as it does amid news that his personal pick for the agency's number three spot attended parties that are being looked at by the FBI as part of a congressional corruption probe.

Last year, California Republican congressman Randall "Duke" Cunningham pled guilty to taking US$2.4 million worth of bribes from two defense contractors in return for steering military intelligence work their way.

One of those men, Brent Wilkes, still as yet facing no charges himself, had a contract to provide field supplies to the CIA, now being probed by the agency's inspector general.....

The HAYDEN nomination is of course, UP FRONT now...it's the damn NEWS. But the scandal is mentioned in the body of those news items, and it isn't gonna go away. As the perps are rounded up, and grilled, Goss WILL come to the fore yet again.

Wonder how fast the "Gosslings" will be leaving HQ? Will the door hit them on the ass on the way out?

[Stevendsmith]

8. Yes, I am. But there's not a peep about hookergate on CNN/MSNBC.

They're towing the official line.

That was the point of my post.

[MADem]

12. No they aren't. They spent the weekend talking about it

It's not a "move on, nothing to see here" thing. There's NO NEW INFO...at least not YET. They aren't history channels, they are news channels. The news right now is that Monkeyboy nominated a Nazi to run the CIA...that's the news today.

When Goss is named as a subject, or a target, and indicted, then he'll be back on the front burner.

[Stevendsmith]

13. Huh?

First of all, as I said in my post, the media was talking about the unusual circumstances of the sudden resignation on Saturday, but today it no longer seems to be a question.

That is suspicious as hell.

The unusual circumstances of the resignation is itself news.

You're saying he has to be a target of an investigation for his unusual resignation to be news again?

This is a matter for a history channel?

[MADem]

15. We get hugely irritated at news outlets that continually rehash stories

with no additional news inserted into them--Natalee, Patrick Kennedy, Lacie Petersen, for example.

What more can be said? The guy resigned suddenly, he's been known to go to poker parties in hotels, hookers also went to those parties, a bunch of slobs are resigning...the pot is bubbling. How many times can that be repeated, without it starting to look like a Faux bash?????

Right now, the story is that a NAZI is gonna run the CIA. That's the more important story, IMO. It can change EVERYTHING. Kiss those civil liberties, already eroding, goodbye. I think the media should spend every waking hour dragging Hayden over the coals, because the Goss story will keep.

Goss is gone, but his potentially salacious tale has a much longer shelf life. You aren't going to get the full story until Foggo and Nine Fingers have cleaned out their desks, the "Gosslings" have fled their CIA cubicles, and everyone starts telling tales out of school, either out of a sense of righteousness, or to make themselves look better or to avoid jail time.

When someone squeals that Porter was actually there, and a person names him, and maybe a picture pops up, then we will have substantiation. Right now, it's just rumor--most probably a true rumor, but just a rumor. Let the reporters dig up the call girl, let the judicial branch indict his ass, let one of his pals rat him out. All things in time.

[WI_DEM]

7. I thought it might be he was involved in "hookergate"

[robbedvoter]

9. Porter...kennedy, ya mean?

[UTUSN]

10. Why, no. It is of utmost importance to talk about Patrick KENNEDY n/t

[maxsolomon]

11. NPR said 'resigned under pressure'

end of discussion.

what pressure? for what?

stop asking questions, hippy, the discussion is closed.

[paparush]

14. When we find out that the hookers were MALE.... THEN we'll have headlines.

Brokeback Gate!

"I wish I could quit you.."

[MADem]

16. But I'll see you, and raise you!!!!!

:rofl:

[gratuitous]

17. I think there are more developments coming

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo seems to have the goods on this story, and his compendium of intelligence community corruption is nonpareil.

Porter Goss resigned Friday at news dump time, and I'll take the original post's word for it that CNN and MSNBC seem to have lost current interest in the story. Odd, considering all the speculation these two media outlets will indulge in on even less information than is publicly available on the problems at CIA.

According to Marshall, though, Porter Goss' number three man at CIA, Dusty Foggo (is that the perfect name for a spook or what?), is about to be exposed for all of his corrupt ways. It may be that major outlets such as MSNBC and CNN are just keeping the decks cleared for a freshet of news on this story.

Bush's approval rating took another dip to 31%. I think even the most hidebound news honchos are beginning to figure out that there's very little downside to portraying a hugely unpopular president and his corrupt administration as a bunch of incompetent stumblebums. Let's see what happens in the next 48 to 96 hours . . .