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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 03:51 PM
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WP's Dana Priest on Goss: You'll have to wait for tomorrow's paper.
From War and Piece, by way of Atrios:

http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/004090.html

From a reader: "Dana Priest is on MSNBC right now saying we'll have to wait for tomorrow's paper to find out why he resigned. The Post must have called him for comment on a story running tomorrow about his involvement with Brent Wilkes."

I'm with Atrios... I'll be obsessively refreshing the Washington Post page starting around 10:00 tonight. I wonder if they really do have the scoop?
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 03:58 PM
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1. DANA is the reporter who wrapped up the story that Mary McCarthy
was accused of leaking, and Porter wanted DANA's head on a plate for it in addition to Mary's.

Revenge, dish best served cold. Whatcha wanna bet Dana got help from "friends of Mary" in putting her latest effort together????

The rumors of PICTURES are delicious: http://harpers.org/sb-red-lights-on-capitol-hill.html

As to the festivities themselves, I hear that party nights began early with poker games (see Clarification, below) and degenerated into what the source described as a "frat party" scene—real bacchanals. Apparently photographs were taken, and investigators are anxiously procuring copies. My heart beats faster in fevered anticipation.

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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:00 PM
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2. So, do you think Dana has the story wrapped up, so she called...
... Porter Goss for a comment earlier this week? Is that what prompted this abrupt resignation, that the entire thing was about to blow up in the Washington Post?

Ohhhh I can't wait to read that story!
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:03 PM
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3. Milbank's a "he." n/t
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:04 PM
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5. DANA PRIEST is a SHE n./t
Edited on Fri May-05-06 04:05 PM by MADem
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:04 PM
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6. Yes, he is. But I'm talking about Dana Priest, a woman.
She's the one with tomorrow's WP byline.
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:06 PM
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8. Whoops. My bad!!!
Milbank also covers politics for the Post, and my Mexican-food-addled brain apparently fritzed out on me when I saw "Dana" and "WP" in the same sentence. :crazy:
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:06 PM
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7. Turns out NEGROPONTE fired GOSS....per Andrea Mitchell
See more, below....
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:04 PM
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4. ANDREA MITCHELL just broke that GOSS WAS FIRED
...by NEGROPONTE. That morale sucked, nothing worked, they hated his political aides who purged top CIA experts, and it was a total mess.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:07 PM
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9. Andrea Mitchell is a fool.
She's gotten it wrong before. This is the same story Tim Russert "broke" earlier today... in other words, it's the White House line.

For now. Because it really doesn't wash.... if this had been in the works for some time, an abrupt resignation that took the entire Washington press corps off guard would not have been necessary. They would have had time to find a successor, come up with a story, etc.

Something happened this week, something big, and Goss' hand was forced.

Now, I don't doubt that Negroponte told him to get out; the "why" is the story.

Maybe we'll know more when Dana Priest's story comes out. :-)
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:08 PM
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11. Walter Pincus is backing her up, as is Dana Milbank
They're all saying he got the axe, fond farewell in the Oval notwithstanding....
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:10 PM
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13. Then why today? Why so abruptly?
Edited on Fri May-05-06 04:10 PM by VolcanoJen
I respect Pincus, and he seems to say that's what Dana's story is about, too.

But today? Something deeper is afoot.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:12 PM
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15. THey're quoting Josh Bolton, who apparently said Porter
was NOT a team player.

Apparently his abrasive manner was like poking holes in the plumbing....caused more leaks than you could shake a stick at!

Who knows? Maybe they were waiting for a distracting lead story, to slide it in under the wire.

Maybe Mary McCarthy has filed for wrongful termination?????
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:13 PM
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17. So it's an after-the-fact spin job.
It might hold up over the weekend.

But not much longer after that. Reporters are sniffing all around the Watergate and that limo company.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:20 PM
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21. Well, the "Bush's personal CIA pick has been FIRED" is EVERYWHERE
So really, the reasons are important, but the fact that the Monkey's personal choice is gone so soon is also a real story...
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ReadTomPaine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:08 PM
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12. "The 'why' is the story."
Indeed.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:18 PM
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19. Isikoff thinks it's the
Duke Cunningham scandal.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:20 PM
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20. I just saw that! Isikoff: "Something happened this week...
... that made this happen today."

He's damned right.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:23 PM
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22. I agree for the reasons you both stated
This is too sudden. As he said they would have finessed significant differences between Negroponte and him. The announcement would not have been this sudden. What does Dana Priest know??
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:24 PM
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23. One of the MSNBC pundits did make a curious point, though.
I'm not sure who he was, but he opined that if Goss was resigning over an upcoming hooker scandal, they wouldn't have exposed the President that way, by having him sit with Goss in the Oval, looking all chatty and nicey-nice.

That is an interesting point. Of course, they're not good at PR lately, and they're grossly incompetent to boot. :-)
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:32 PM
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29. But he was hand-picked by
Bush and this is not a low level personnel appointment. Still that's an interesting take.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:38 PM
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32. Here's why he WOULD..
*² DID handpick him, and sfter he had "cleared all the brush" for him, *² put in Negroponte to OVERSEE what Goss was doing..

These guys get petty..Goss had a pretty sweet deal going in his congressional life, and he "gave it up" to serve *². and for that he got Negroponte as a boss, second-guessing everything he did..

and then there's the hooker angle too..

Pass the popcorn :)
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ReadTomPaine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:40 PM
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33. Yep, this one is juicy. n/t
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 07:17 PM
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36. You're onto something, SoCal.
This is just gonna get gooder and gooder. :-)
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:29 PM
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28. One internet rumor: "resumed his homosexual liaison with....
Edited on Fri May-05-06 04:29 PM by rainbow4321
an old friend in the Congress".... (allegedly, of course) and word got around about it.

Could fit into hookergate, I guess, somehow.

Now if one of them would just give (or admit to having given) chimp a blowjob, impeachment proceedings could be started.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:37 PM
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31. I asked earlier on another thread
whether Gannon coming out was connected. Gannon did say something about a closet Congressman. Can't wait for the real story.
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ReadTomPaine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:07 PM
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10. I have mentioned this elsewhere, I wouldn't be surprised.
This sounds more like Negroponte's style.
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qanda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:34 PM
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30. Why would we have to wait to hear that?
That's been the rumor from the very first day that Porter Goss took over. And isn't Negroponte his immediate supervisor?
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-06-06 01:55 PM
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37. And his Yale classmate from Class of 60
So NOW, all of a sudden, after all these years, nay, DECADES, he suddenly decides he doesn't know Porter's character?

Is that fish I smell?
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:42 PM
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34. Russert was hard selling that earlier today
Amazing that MSNBC reporters have it that way... or, maybe not so amazing
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:49 PM
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35. Steno Tim and Steno Andrea
It must be hard work, writing down every little word the White House tells you and then reading it to the sheeple.

:-)
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:11 PM
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14. lol! you are the scoop girl Jen!
:hi:
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:12 PM
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16. And I had planned to get so much done today.
:toast: :hi: :toast:
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:15 PM
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18. Stay Tuned!
:toast:
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faithnotgreed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:25 PM
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25. well you definitely did....... thanks
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:24 PM
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24. I saw her say that earlier on MSNBC and it certainly peaked my
interest.

I also just saw Isikoff (sp?) say something must have just happened in the last day or so.

I can't wait to find out what is about to blow. :-)
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qanda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:25 PM
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26. All of a sudden I'm feeling a little psychic
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1110978&mesg_id=1111148
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incapsulated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 04:26 PM
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27. Why, why, why....?
Hmmmmm.....

;)

Thanks.
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