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Cia Director Goss Abruptly Resigns
Topic Started: May 5 2006, 04:43 PM (299 Views)
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CIA Director Goss Abruptly Resigns
By Joel Havemann, Times Staff Writer
1:04 PM PDT, May 5, 2006

WASHINGTON -- CIA Director Porter Goss, who was unable to lift the cloud that hung over the agency since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, resigned today.

His resignation brought an unexpected twist to the White House staff shakeups of the past month under new White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten.

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There was no indication of who would succeed Goss.

Goss became Bush's director of Central Intelligence in August 2004, four months before Congress created a new layer of bureaucracy between the CIA and the White House. Bush named John Negroponte to the new post of national intelligence director, supplanting Goss as overseer of the nation's 16 spy agencies and leaving Goss with authority over only the CIA. Negroponte also assumed responsibility for the president's daily intelligence briefing.

In brief remarks at the White House, Bush announced Goss' resignation and thanked him for instilling "a sense of professionalism" within the CIA's ranks.

"I've established a very close, personal relationship with Porter, which is very important for the director of the CIA," Bush said. "He's spent a lot of time here in the Oval Office. He's given me his candid advice. I appreciate his integrity. I appreciate the honor that he brought to the job."

Goss, appearing with Bush, took satisfaction in what he called dramatic improvements in the nation's intelligence capabilities, which he said had kept the United States "very safe."

He added: "I would like to report back to you that I believe the agency is on a very even keel, sailing well."

Under Goss, the CIA could not shake the reputation it had gained after the Sept. 11 attacks for an inability to sort through the mountains of intelligence it gathers and clearly communicating threats to the president and the American public.

Symptomatic was a CIA inspector general's decision this year to investigate alleged ties between the agency's executive director, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, and a defense contractor accused of seeking to bribe former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-San Diego), who is serving eight years and four months in prison on bribery charges. Foggo is third in command at the CIA.

Goss, a former Republican member of Congress, represented a Florida Gulf Coast district from 1989 until his appointment as CIA director nearly two years ago. He served as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, starting in 1997, and was a co-sponsor of the post-Sept. 11 USA Patriot Act, which gave the government broad new power in its war on terrorism.

Before his election to the House, Goss was a CIA clandestine agent for 10 years, retiring in 1971 after nearly dying from blood poisoning and a heart infection. Now 65, Goss graduated from Yale University, where he majored in Greek, in 1960.
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