Friday - May 05, 2006

BULLETIN! Breaking News

Yet another one bolts for the door. This one is quite surprising. From where I sit, the CIA is still a mess, full of Liberal Democratic party supporters who are just going to continue to screw up intelligence. This bodes ill ...

CIA Director Porter Goss Resigns
_{Friday, May 5, 2006; 2:30 PM}

CIA Director Porter J. Goss resigned today after less than two years on the job, President Bush announced at the White House. Bush said Goss offered his resignation this morning and that “I’ve accepted it.” Neither the president nor Goss, who sat to Bush’s right as he made the announcement in the Oval Office, gave a reason for the resignation.

Bush said he had established “a very close personal relationship” with Goss, who succeeded George J. Tenet as director of the CIA in September 2004. He said Goss’s tenure has been marked by “transition” as the CIA has become integrated into an intelligence community headed by a new director of national intelligence. Veteran ambassador John D. Negroponte was named to that post in 2005, taking over a position whose creation was recommended by the commission that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Bush said Goss had instilled a “sense of professionalism” in the CIA. He expressed confidence that his successor “will continue reforms” at the agency. Bush did not name a successor or indicate when he would choose one. “He has led ably,” Bush said of Goss. “He has a five-year plan to increase the analysts and operatives.”

Goss, 67, thanked Bush for “the trust and confidence” placed in him and said he thought the agency is performing admirably.

- More on this at Washington Post ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 05/05/2006 at 03:02 PM   
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