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Friday, May 05, 2006

Goss Resigns from CIA - Power Transfer to Negroponte

Porter Goss has resigned from the CIA. Much more here at Hotair.

I don't think Goss resigned because he felt slighted that John Negroponte is the one with all the power in the intelligence community. I believe Porter Goss was told by Bush to go in and clean house of the partisan atmosphere (if possible) and he has started to do that. It's also likely that Goss told Bush that the agency is beyond repair, which is the reason that an increasing amount of responsibility is now going over to Negroponte's agency. Rather than completely reforming the CIA from within, Bush likely decided to start from scratch with Negroponte and just have the CIA as a small appendage of Negroponte's agency.

Regardless, it will be interesting to see who would want the position now, as the CIA has lost most of its prestige and power.