Porter Goss resigned today as the Director of Central Intelligence. There are several possibilities for why Goss chose to resign now. One obvious possibility is that he intends to beat the filing deadline to enter the Republican primary for Senate in Florida. Wonkette says the deadline is next week. Another possibility can be seen in Time’s report on unrest at the Agency over recent administrative changes that have turned over all foreign intelligence agency liaisons (as well as the primary responsibility for counter-terrorism) to the National Intelligence Agency under John Negroponte. It’s also possible that Goss was actually fired for incompetence, resigned because he didn’t get Negroponte’s job, or stepped down because he wants to spend more time with ‘Andy Card’s kids’. But the juiciest rumor involves the Watergate free hookers scandal.
If that scandal is about to blow and rock Capitol Hill, it might be a good idea to get out in front of it and fire anyone that can be fired.
I have no idea why Goss is leaving. It will very interesting to see what kind of replacment they select. Hopefully it won’t be someone else that was having breakfast with the head of Pakistani intelligence on 9/11. We can hope.
As for the agency, they are into total disarray. Shitcanning (I know, he resigned) the DCI dead in the middle of an internal witch hunt is a very odd thing to do. It makes me lean a little toward the hooker theory of things.
