well, the spin is that Goss could no longer abide John Negroponte, the director of National Intelligence (or vice versa) - the fact that the Prez stood by his side and praised him as he resigned would support this angle. but the bubbles about his attendance at the poker parties with convicted GOP Congressman Duke Cunningham continue to float to the surface:
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CIA boss Goss is cooked
Tied to contractor's poker parties -
hints of bribes & women
BY RICHARD SISK and JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss abruptly resigned yesterday amid allegations that he and a top aide may have attended Watergate poker parties where bribes and prostitutes were provided to a corrupt congressman.
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possibly the Cunningham scandal gave Negroponte the ammo he needed to throw Goss under the bus?
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Negroponte "apparently had no confidence" in Goss, and Bush's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board was also "very alarmed by problems at the CIA," said a congressional source involved in oversight of U.S. spy agencies.
"Supposedly the \[Cunningham\] scandal was the last straw," the source said. "This administration may be on the verge of a major scandal."
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what, yet
another major scandal?
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/sto...p-350961c.html