Goss bosh

Now we're being told that Goss got the boot because he could not get along with John Negroponte.

Oh, come off it. If the explanation were so prosaic -- and if the confrontation had been building up for as long as ABC News claims -- the Bushites would have found a way to handle the Goss exit far more adroitly.

I had worried that Vice Admiral Calland would run the Agency for a while (after all, John McLaughlin ran it for over two months when Tenet resigned), but Time reports that the spot will probably go to Air Force General Michael Hayden, an even more troubling figure. The rules state that a military man cannot hold both the number one and number two spots at CIA, so either the rules get bent or Calland's days are numbered.

What do we know of Hayden? He's close to Cheney. He appeared with Gonzales to defend the wiretapping program. This doesn't look good. The presence of a neocon military man at the head of what is supposed to be a civilian agency insures cooperation with Rumsfled's scheme to let the Special Forces run rampant (domestically and elsewhere) after Big Wedding II.

Check out what Larry Johnson has to say about about Goss and Dusty Foggo...