Porter Goss Resigns As DCI? Is Gen. Hayden In?
According to Time Magazine,
the POTUS will announce his replacement on Monday: Air Force General Michael V. Hayden! His nomination is sure to reignite the battle over the program on Capitol Hill, where one House Democrat promises “a partisan food fight” during the confirmation process.
Though Hayden, who has a close rapport with Vice President Cheney, has not been formally offered the job, he is the leading candidate and the announcement is planned for Monday at the White House, the sources said. The President frequently extends a formal offer immediately before an announcement, to cut down on leaks and allow for last-minute developments.
White House officials had hoped to announce Goss’s departure and Hayden’s nomination at the same time but Goss, who resigned under pressure, balked at that kind of choreography. “He said, ‘If we’re going to do this, let’s go ahead and do it,” a senior administration official said.
Allahpundit has very in-depth coverage of this!
Fox is reporting:. Obvious question is what this means for the administration’s anti-leak initiative.
Update: Could frustration with the CIA’s diminishing influence over intelligence have led Goss to quit? Time magazine had this to say in a pieceEver since John Negroponte was appointed Director of National Intelligence a year ago and given the task of coordinating the nation’s myriad spy agencies, he has been diluting the power and prestige of the best known of them all, the Central Intelligence Agency. From day one, he supplanted the CIA Director as the President’s principal intelligence adviser, in charge of George W. Bush’s daily briefing. Other changes followed, all originating in the law that created the DNI ” and all traumatic for CIA fans. But now, in a little noticed move, Negroponte is signaling that he is moving still more responsibility from the CIA to his own office, including control over the analysis of terrorist groups and threats:.
“It’s a huge thing going on. It’s a huge drama and nobody’s picking up on it,” the former CIA official said of the DNI’s realignment of CIA responsibilities. “CIA feels quite friendless right now. We’re seeing more pieces of it just keep being moved to the door.” A senior U.S. official sympathetic to the CIA warns that “if the DNI’s not careful, the Agency and what it does will be different, and maybe that’s what everybody wants. That’s OK, but maybe the Agency won’t be able to do what everybody wants.”
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May 6, 2006 - 11:32 AM on May 6th, 2006
Good thing:wink:
May 6, 2006 - 02:59 PM on May 6th, 2006
I love it all to much. “Goss needs some understanding in his life”, like the other guy kennedy!