May 10, 2006
The mystery grows and the rumors keep flying over (ironically) the one secret the CIA seems able to keep - who forced Porter Goss to resign from his DCI spot last Friday? And in a move worthy of CLUE, U.S. News and World Report takes a shot at the game.
Despite Monday's praise by President Bush for Goss, with whom he held an exit ceremony last Friday at the White House, the insiders say that the decision to dump Goss came hard and fast. One says that Goss revealed to his senior staff on Friday that Bolten had called him last Thursday night to ask if he had "thought through an exit strategy."
On Friday morning, Bolten made a second call to demand Goss's resignation that day, which he gave.
In a way, it makes sense. Goss and Negroponte were having issues. Bush was probably loathe to fire Goss so early in, but Bolten took a look at the situation - and the agent attrition, and the looming scandals - and knew something had to be done immediately.
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