"Somebody sends me a blue dress and some DNA, I'll have an investigation"

Yes, that quote is from Porter Goss, who recently "resigned" as head of the CIA. Why is such a dedicated Bush minion leaving office? Well the word is that he pissed everyone in the agency off and basically worked as an arm of the administration, but we know that those could not be the real reasons, not in these sad times. Perhaps it is his link to bribe-related poker parties complete with high-end hookers (and so fittingly at the Watergate Hotel)? Yes, and this is related to Randall "The Duke-inator" Cunningham and may have been going on for 15 years.

Of course, his replacement is on parr with Bush's past record for nominating inept cronies, suspect characters, and/or haters of the organizations for which they are being appointed to head... But even Republicans are complaining that this guy shouldn't be nominated for this position because of his military lineage, but that is likely a ruse. Perhaps it is because this guy was in charge of the illegal wiretapping programs? But should that piss off Republicans? Well, maybe the info from these taps explains why the Republicans have not fought the Whitehouse on anything. This is just conjecture, but while we all are pretty sure that these taps have been used to gather intel on the Democrats and on radicals like me and you, maybe the best way to neuter Congress is to get some good dirt on the guys in your own team. Well, at least this new guy is a constitutional scholar...

Perhaps I'm off base and it is merely a move to consolidate power under National Intel Director John Negroponte (whose wikipedia entry reads more like an indictment than an encyclopedia entry).

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