Porter Goss Is Gone

CNN is reporting that CIA Director Porter Goss has resigned. Goss has been implicated in the growing lobbyist-hooker scandal (I can't believe I just typed that) involving Duke Cunningham and defense contractors Mitchell Wade and Brent Wilkes. This resignation just added a LOT of speculation to that. Goss wasn't even there a year.

I know the corporate media is pushing this whole "Patrick Kennedy got in a car accident and might have been drunk! Drunk Kennedy! Look over here! Kennedy! Drinking!" but now that there's a resignation, Hooker-gate has to go to the top of the sensationalism list, no? And before anyone yells hypocrisy, this is a clear, simple situation of lobbyists providing perks for access to Congress (Goss was in Congress at the time). Josh Marshall nails it:

[W]hile the Kennedy story is 'newsy' it doesn't really have any greater policy implications. And the public trust implications are minor. The Wilkes-Watergate-Hooker story, on the other hand, is both. It's salacious, which the press loves. And it's also directly tied to crooks ripping off taxpayers, probably allowing our service members abroad to have shoddy equipment or defense dollars going to worthless projects.

So, we're on the Kennedy case. But why the silence on the much bigger scandal bubbling up out of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee?

Cricket, cricket ...

The crickets will get louder now, I suspect...