Really, There's Only One Possible Response To Something Like This

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Porter Goss said Saturday that his surprise resignation as CIA director is "just one of those mysteries," offering no other explanation for his sudden departure after almost two years on the job.



















The fuck?

Comments

[joshuwain.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I think that there is another possible response to this.

After all, as Patrick McGoohan can attest, when a spy resigns and doesn't give his reasons, bad things can happen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner)...

"Who are you...?"
"The new Number Two."
"Who is Number One?"
"You are Number Six."
"I am not a number, I'm Porter Goss!"
"Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha..."

[morpheus0013.livejournal.com]

*blinks*

He doesn't know why he resigned?

Could he, I don't know, call the fucking White House and ask for a copy of his resignation letter so he can re-read it?

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

Perhaps he thinks if he tells us, he'll then have to kill us.

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

The Salon did a few good bits on this. Evidently, the guy was confused about why he got the job in the first place, stating several times that he wasn't qualified or capable. Now that the CIA is a mess ( _many_ top level CIA people quit because they couldn't work with him) and he's linked to that bribery/sex scandal, the only real question is: why was his resignation handled so suspiciously?

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

Because he's the CIA chief: they do everything mysteriously. :)

Wonder if his 'Oh, I just felt like it, I dunno why I quit' will be allowed to stand by the tamed media.

Probably will.

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

Now there's an idea. Have the head of the CIA submit his resignation in code, or place clues around Washington D.C. for the press corp to find and figure out. First reporter who gets it right gets an exclusive interview.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Opening move to consolidating all the spy agencies under the ageas of the Department for Homeland Security perhaps?

Ie.. the FEMA gambit.
1] appoint someone incompetant
2] when they fubar it all, fire them and 'reorganize'.

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

It's obvious. He got a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder in the post, and when he played it it said "Good morning, Mr Goss. Your mission, should you choose to accept it and you do, is to resign. This message will self-destruct in...um...oops *fizzcrackle*."

No, seriously, he got a letter saying "You've resigned. Clear your desk." He doesn't know why, because as of receiving the letter, he isn't of sufficiently high clearance to be told.

[scott644.livejournal.com]

CIA and other related agencies are some of the few places where this kind of spin can be (theoretically gotten away with). Information can be extremely dangerous (allowing the presumption of protection of national security), and the anti-Bush camp will be only too happy to see yet another of his cronies go to bother looking too deep for an answer - that's the theory at any rate.

Truth? I figure they finally decided to call another of Bush's cronies to account for the damage they'd done and they're keeping a lid on it because of potential damage to Bush Dynasty Security.

[darrenzieger.livejournal.com]

Goss's resignation may have been prompted by his being implicated in the Duke Cunningham bribery/prostitution scandal. Even better, there are some indications that the gender of said prostitutes will intensify the scandal by several orders of magnitude...

Man, I hope this starts getting some coverage in the mainstream media (who are currently too stoked on the Kennedy driving-while-Ambien-addled scandal to notice anything else). There have been a few tiny, buried mentions of it, but the bloggers are way out ahead of the MSM, as usual.

For starters, check out these items in the Daily Kos :
"Goss and hookers. Maybe the story WILL get covered" (http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/5/7/2338/35070),
"Gay facts and fantasies in Propagannon research" (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/19/204254/937), and [UPDATED w/Rove link] It's about GAY hookers, STUPID! (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/5/194558/7271).

Enjoy.

[rmeidaking.livejournal.com]

I generally assume in these sorts of cases that they're pleading the Fifth Amendment, without actually saying so. They've cut a deal to avoid jail time, and will now retire to some obscure suburb and hope the facts never actually come out. Their employers also hope the facts will never come out.

Hopefully others involved will cut $BigBuck book deals. :-)

The fuck?

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

And, you know, there's really nothing to add to that, either.