Goss Couldn’t Hack It

12:05 am EST May 6th, 2006 | Politics | Comments Off

Continuing this administration’s habit of appointing unqualified cronies to run important agencies, the Post’s version of the Goss story implies that he couldn’t hack it.

“There has been an open conversation for a few weeks, through Negroponte, with the acknowledgment of the president” about replacing Goss, said a senior White House official who discussed the internal deliberations on the condition of anonymity. Another senior White House official said Goss had always been viewed as a “transitional figure” who would leave by year’s end. His departure was accelerated when Bush shook up his White House staff in hopes of beginning a political turnaround.

The White House, of course, says the ouster has nothing to do with Hookergate. But that’s of course assuming they would admit it if that were the reason.

>> Via Josh Marshall, the CIA’s #3 — Dusty Foggio is under criminal investigation for Hookergate. This salient point is buried and ignored by the MSM. Good thing he’s not a Democrat or they’d have to find room on page one.