What the Hell's Going On

Laura Rozen says this Goss shit-canning was abrupt:

I hear that when Porter Goss went to meet with Negroponte today, he didn't know he was going to be leaving the job. And that it would have been the President's decision, not Negroponte's.

And Josh takes us into the weeds of the Hookergate story. The #3 man at the CIA, "Dusty" Foggo, is very involved with Brent Wilkes, the main briber in the Duke Cunningham case. They've known each other since high school. You need to read his post. And this.

Rozen's post said that Goss' firing "may have to do with how Goss handled a management issue concerning Foggo." Justin Rood says Goss was told to fire Foggo, who's likely about to get indicted, and Goss refused.

Of course, there's far more speculation about this on the Internet than on cable news, which is wrapped up in the Patrick Kennedy checking into rehab story. Funny, Rush Limbaugh didn't get a whole lot of play when he was booked by the cops on charges related to the same sort of prescription drug addiction. Funny how that works.

(By the way, as long as we're on the scandal in DC beat, to update a recent post, I'm very encouraged that Pelosi has essentially cut William Jefferson loose and said "Your ethics are your problem.")