Here Comes The Spin... Time Says Goss Move Down To DNI Coup

[althecat]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1191802,00.html

Talk about spinning. Time is doin 7200rpm in the above article... it starts saying

Because it had been rumored about for months, Goss's departure was one of those Washington episodes that are more sudden than surprising.

Yeah right...

However even the spin masters at time could not excise this paragraph from the telling.. they just buried it at the end....

....

Then there was the X factor in Goss's departure: his judgment about people. After bringing with him a boarding party of staff members who seemed to specialize in mishandling personnel matters, Goss promoted Kyle (Dusty) Foggo to be the cia's executive director and top budget chief. Foggo is now at the center of a growing investigation into a federal bribery case that has already sent former California Congressman Randy (Duke) Cunningham to prison for more than eight years. A source close to the investigation tells Time that the Justice Department is investigating reports that one of Cunningham's benefactors, Pentagon and cia contractor Brent Wilkes, a buddy of Foggo's since high school, provided Foggo with improper gifts, such as lavish vacations. A cia spokesman says Foggo "denies any improper gifts," and Wilkes' lawyer has similarly denied any wrongdoing. Goss's allies insisted the ex-spook's decision to leave was a mutual one. One Goss friend says that Goss resisted the DNI reforms not as a matter of turf but because he believed the CIA would lose critical skills if key missions were shifted to the DNI. "Porter was not just defending the agency's turf but also the principle of 'Do no harm,'" the friend says. "There were tensions. And what I think you had was a decision mutually arrived at."

Basically the spin seems to be...

It was happening anyway as Goss was offside with the new broom at the DNI.

BUT AND THIS IS BIG BUT

The Hooker scandal was the final straw.

This is interesting as it might as well read as an official acknowledgement that Goss is in the firing line in the new Watergate investigation.

AND THAT IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS.

:)

[Sadie5]

1. Is there one person

in Bush's cabinet that is not a felon or mixed up in questionable activities? can't think of a single one.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. The only reason for Goss's sudden departure

is someone caught him with his pants down.

The M&M is trying to spin it has a turf war between Negroponte and Goss, which is total BS. Negroponte and Goss go all the way back to Yale and were fraternity brothers.