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Behind the Goss Toss

Behind the Goss Toss
By Richard Sisk
The New York Daily News

Sunday 07 May 2006

Washington - A little-known White House advisory board convinced a reluctant President Bush to launch yet another high-profile shakeup of the nation's intelligence community and can CIA Director Porter Goss, sources said yesterday.

Bush had already gotten an earful from Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte on the shortcomings of Goss, but the final push came from the "very alarmed" President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, intelligence and Congressional sources said.

Alarms were set off at the advisory board by a widening FBI sex and cronyism investigation that's targeted Kyle (Dusty) Foggo, the No.3 official at the CIA, and also touched on Goss himself.

The 16-member bipartisan board, now headed by former Goldman Sachs executive Stephen Friedman, has the mandate to conduct periodic assessments on "the quality, quantity and adequacy of intelligence collection."

The board, which includes longtime Bush confidant and former Commerce Secretary Don Evans, joined in the growing chorus inside and outside the CIA calling for Goss' ouster, persuading Bush to act, sources said.

The result was the awkward Oval Office announcement Friday at which neither Goss nor Bush gave a specific reason for Goss' return to Florida. Goss told CNN yesterday his resignation was "just one of those mysteries."

White House spokeswoman Dana Perrino said a "collective agreement" led to the decision to find a new CIA director, but "reports that the President had lost confidence in Porter Goss are categorically untrue."

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ends up in jail with some of his old Cuban buddies. I hear Luis Posada would like a cellmate.

is the fact that the head of the presidents' foreign intelligence advisory board is a former executive of goldman sachs.

i guess that brings together -- all under one roof -- the legislative, the executive, the judicial and the corporate branches of government?

That's perfect.

board, you know, the Commerce guy. More musical chairs and so many end up in the intelligence arena.

run a corporation and wind up in a high profile well paid advisory panel bendin the ear of the president of the united states.

and mind you real economists have my propers -- but the united states foreign policy should not be determined by business men/women.

that they determine AT ALL what happens in intelligence is more than just alarming.

it's a good way of putting on the map where all us poor little gold fish really are.

Was FURIOUS that Eleanor Clift would insinuate that Goss was involved in the Watergate/hooker scandal. I thought he was going to blow a gasket - seriously! "Go ahead, Eleanor! Say it! Say what you're insinuating!" Eleanor looked amused - she knew she had him over a barrel.

I hate that when his eyes bulge.

I could see a vein in his neck going, too!

I think he's gotten fatter. Definitely redder.

Eleanor knows CPR.

Goss IS actually involved in Hookergate? :rofl:

Not Scalia? :shrug:

Editor of the Moonie Times. Fat smug angry con on the McLaughlin Group.

The Moonie Times part is sufficient to let me know I have no interest in anything he has to say!

edit I posted in the wrong place. duh

in hookers...

Think about it, WHEN was the last time Bush fired someone for incompetence?

Only once in 6 years!

I look for the repukes to push blowing the famous hotel to smithereens.