Behind the Goss toss (He's featured in the sex scandal)

[elehhhhna]

Behind the Goss toss

W's 'alarmed' panel sealed top spy's fate

BY RICHARD SISK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

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."
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/415620p-351086c.html

[autorank]

1. K&R. "Feel Good" post of the month...

[Harper_is_Bush]

2. Goss has been receiving withering critisism from ex-CIA as well:

Two articles by Ray McGovern, 27 year vet of the CIA:

http://www.counterpunch.org/mcgovern07062004.html

http://www.counterpunch.org/mcgovern07062004.html

edit: and an appearance on NewsHour:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/fedagencies/july-dec04/goss_8-10.html

[degreesofgray]

3. Bush is fucking nuts

and Goss is fucking hookers. Do I have that right?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. purdy close. You forgot the 7.5 lb trout.

[degreesofgray]

6. though * is doing a good job of fucking up the environment

I sincerely hope no one is fucking the 7.5 pound trout

[tblue37]

9. Not a trout. Merely a perch. (eom)

[ThomWV]

12. Interesting Fish

Bush catches a 7 pound Perch, problem is the World Record (According to the International Game Fish Association) is a little less than half that.

Think about it, the asshole can't even tell the fucking truth about a fucking fish.

[RhodaGrits]

14. if this is true (and i believe you) you should

link to the world record and start a thread just about this whopper of a lie - if you haven't already?
This is incredible.

[Desperadoe]

15. How dare you question the pResident!

Actually, someone should have fast-checked this for fratboy.

Texas - Fishing Record Catches

Yellow Perch Melvin Vick 1 lb. 0.64 oz. 12.5 5/3/96 Lake Meredith

http://www.hotspotfishing.com/records/records-Texas.asp

I'm sure that his new gopher will explain this away by saying it was a Nile Perch or some other exotic transplant, since it was in that outdoor aquarium they call a farm pond.

[Canuckistanian]

13. Man and Fish can not only coexist

They can do the wild thang. Fish Hookers?

[paparush]

18. PERCH! C'mon...get yer facts right! ; -)

[babylonsister]

5. LOL! On the nose, degreesofgray! nt

[Hubert Flottz]

7. Lets Toss The Goss Boss and see the girls in the floss drawss!

[peacetalksforall]

8. Truly? Like in truth? There really is a bipartisan board? Holy holy!

[IndyOp]

10. I KNEW Goldman Sachs was running the country, I *just knew* it!

They are so *'ing powerful because they write the laws in their favor.

:grr:

[Catrina]

11. Interesting last paragraph in that story -

Wilkes hosted regular parties for 15 years at the Watergate and Westin Grand Hotels for lawmakers and lobbyists. Intelligence sources said Goss has denied attending the parties as CIA director, but that left open whether he may have attended as a Republican congressman from Florida who was head of the House Intelligence Committee.

I thought he had categorically denied attending the parties, but according to this article, he only denied attending them in the year since he was CIA Director! So, did he attend them when he was a Congressman? If so, then that would be the real reason why he had to go!

It seems very likely, since all the original reports on this story said that the parties were attended by members of Congress and as I recall, Congressmen who were on the Intelligence Committee!

[elehhhhna]

16. I want the PHOTOS! Didja know the hookers were male?

[Skidmore]

17. 15 years of partying....

that's a lot of partying...

Do we have a Congress or a collection of frat boys?