Excellent GOSS Stuff - HookerGate - Domestic Spying---CannonFire

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Flags to small to hide behind

CannonFire broke the Wilkes scandal connections some time ago and didn't get full
credit. You can be sure that when he talks about Porter Goss' possible connection,
he has a good analytical eye. These three paragraphs are just too good not to show
here. The fourth is a bit chilling.

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/

Now ask yourself: If incriminating photographs of Porter Goss exist, did they play a role in his being tapped for that august position at CIA? One is reminded of a quote attributed to LBJ: "I don't trust a man unless I have his pecker in my pocket."

Before Goss, Bush was bedeviled by DCI George Tenet, whose attitude toward the administration was Janus-faced: Tenet pled loyalty, yet the press kept printing leaks indicating that CIA analysts disagreed with the Administration's rationales for war. Bush, who values loyalty above all, presumed that he could rely on greater fealty from Porter Goss.

Blackmail photographs of Porter Goss partying with hookers would explain his ascent as well as his fall. But how would Bush's neocon handlers have known of such photos (presuming that they exist) unless the Wilkes/Wade operation had ties that went as high as the White House itself?

(Commenting on possible Goss successor in waiting, a Rummy pal, CannonFire says)

This is troubling. As we noted previously, Rumsfeld's Special Operations Command -- SOCOM -- stands poised to unleash Green Berets and Navy SEALS, both in foreign nations and domestically, after Big Wedding II. Special Forces will have authority to spy and to make arrests of U.S. citizens without warrant. If Calland becomes DCI, the civilian agency won't be in any position to hold the Special Forces in check -- indeed, CIA and SOCOM will work in tandem.

I'm already starting to miss Goss!

[Stinky The Clown]

1. As they say for a lot of such reports ........

"Still Developing" ..... "stay tunmed .... "

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9. Yep, I get home and turn on the tube, Anderson Cooper for a story

and do I get the 15 farking "appropriating committee" Members of the House story. Nooooo...I get poor
Patrick Kennedy's car crash. Well, that is a story but we've heard it before and he needs and is seeking help.

WHAT ABOUT THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO TAKE A LIMO TO GET SOME AT THE WATERGATE THEN VOTE APPROPRIATIONS
FOR THE GUY GIVING THEM THE RIDE.

MSM IS GETTING WORSE BY THE MINUTE. I'M CONVINCED THAT THERE IS A GUERRILLA CAMPAIGN WITH IN MSM THAT'S
ACTUALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY NEGATIVE, I.E., TRUE NEWS ABOUT BUSH AND THE REST OF THEM, INCLUDING
COOPER, ARE STILL IN LOCK STEP WITH THIS MONSTROUS ADMINISTRATION. WONDER IF THEY'LL REPLAY WWE LATER TONIGHT...

[wakeme2008]

2. What is

Big Wedding II??????

[grasswire]

3. what's "Big Wedding II"

Is that Iran?

[acmejack]

4. a bit chilling?

You sir, are a master of the fine art of understatement...

[peacetalksforall]

5. How do they get around the good lawyers, judges, advocates?

We've known what PNAC wants?

Can they really get it?

Is your kid or brother going to be their police?

How do they do it with just seals and berets.

We're not the size of Germany, Poland, etc.

[Peace Patriot]

6. Hm-m-m-m, I was just thinking this over on another thread

(an UnderstandingLife thread), that this is just what Rumsfeld wants, to discredit and disable the CIA. The job that Porter Goss was supposed to FINISH was the job that Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush, Rice, Libby, Rove and WHIG started with the outing of Plame/Brewster-Jennings, purging anybody who still thinks that it's their job to prevent war, not to manufacture it. That was the story anyway. I also have felt all along that Rumsfeld was the mastermind behind Traitorgate (and the mastermind behind what Traitorgate may be covering up).

Anyway, if true, it's playing out as expected--that is, as Rumsfeld wants. The CIA headed by a frat party bozo, who is stupid enough to get caught with his pants down--discredits, downgrades the CIA, with some Dems in Congress happy to keep it degraded, while Rumsfeld proceeds with his black ops in Iran, with the internal opposition in disarray.

Yer right. Scary.

(In other words, Porter Goss was put in place BECAUSE they knew he was sleeze/dirty--just like Brown at FEMA. To destroy an agency.)

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7. You last line is really scary...indicating a real intelligence behind this

They can't occupy Iraq but they can sure screw up this one. That would be serious chess, to put in
place a guy to do the dirty work knowing you could further that agenda by outing the guy and further
discredit the organization. Smart!

[Independent_Liberal]

8. K&R!