
Rumors have been swirling around Washington that CIA Director Porter Goss may have been involved in the poker and prostitute parties at the Watergate Hotel hosted by the defense contractors who bribed former Rep. Duke Cunningham. Goss was chairman of the House Intelligence Committee when the parties took place, so it is possible he was involved somehow in either the bribery, the sex with prostitutes or both.
Goss’s abrupt resignation today was offered without a reason — not even the old Washington bromide of an urgent need to spend more time with his familiy. The news readers on CNN and MSNBC are pussyfooting around it but it is hard to see how Goss’s sudden departure after a little more than a year as head of the CIA is not connected to the Watergate II scandals.
Here’s some background on the scandals that posted on Alternet earlier today:
According to recent reports, federal investigators have traced the outlines of a far more extensive network of suspected corruption, involving multiple members of Congress, some of the nation’s highest-ranking intelligence officials, bribery attempts including “free limousine service, free stays at hotel suites at the Watergate and the Westin Grand, and free prostitutes,” tens of millions of dollars in federal contracts awarded under dubious circumstances, and even efforts to influence U.S. national security policy by subverting democratic oversight…
CIA director Goss tied to scandal?
Last week, Harper’s magazine reported that party-goers “under intense scrutiny by the FBI are current and former lawmakers on Defense and Intelligence committees — including one person who now holds a powerful intelligence post.” CIA Director Porter Goss is perhaps the only individual who fits such a description. (”This is horribly irresponsible. He hasn’t even been to the Watergate in decades,” a CIA spokeswoman said. When asked if Goss had attended Wilkes’ parties at the Westin or other locations, she repeated the denial. “It’s horribly irresponsible. Flatly untrue.”) But the alleged links between Goss, Foggo, and Wilkes have led some to return to questions raised when Goss initially selected Foggo to be executive director in November 2004.
Update: NBC’s Tim Russert has been rushed in front of the cameras to insist that Goss’s resignation is a result of head-butting from John Negroponte, the Director of National Intelligence. In other words, “Move along, folks, move along. Nothing to see here.”



The walls of Jericho are tumbling down. About dam time too.
I think you are spot on. This is going to turn out to be yet another example of hypocrital GOP politicians (Cunningham was one of the morally “outraged” Congressmen who voted to impeach Clinton because he got a blow job)caught, quite literally, with their pants down around their ankles.
What a shame Republican voters respond to harmless sex mischief while Liberals are too principled to really skewer them with it.
Don’t get too excited. My guess is that everything about this will be classified by tomorrow - next week at the latest - due to “national security issues.”
And Mr. Krashkoph, you are spot on with regards to the hypocrisy of these low-lifes! We’ve been screwed in the process and our kids and grandkids futures will be harnessed to these excesses…
Wow, now the tables have turned on these evil Republicans. Cunningham got up the articles of impeachment against Clinton for a damn blowjob, so now the walls are starting to come down on this Administration and the Republican party.
Some very interesting information here on the Porter Goss 1960’s CIA hit squad connection:
http://www.madcowprod.com/mc6512004.html
Nah… the hookers were for Dusty.
power battle?
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1191401,00.html?cnn=yes
Roy’s Quick Review-Pop Test To Follow:
The Franklin Cover-Up
Senator John De Camp’s Investigation
Bush Family Visits To Bohemian Grove
Gop African-American, Lawrence King Scandal
Current GOP Closet Gay Homophobes
Late GOP Lobbyist Craig Spence
Johnny Gosch Case
Gannon/Guckert
Hookergate
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Congressional Sex Scandal?
May 02, 2006 10:26 AM
Brian Ross
The Congressional payoff scandal may soon be known as the Congressional sex scandal.
The FBI is now investigating whether hookers were part of the scheme used by defense companies to get lucrative contracts.
We already know about the cash, cars, mansions and yachts that changed hands in the case of disgraced former Congressman Duke Cunningham.
But now sources close to the investigation tell us, as well as the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, that sexual favors may have been part of the deal.
The allegations include descriptions of Washington, D.C. poker parties in hotel suites, where prostitutes were brought by limousine as part of the entertainment.
No comment from the owner of the limousine company, a man with a long criminal record who just happened to get a $20 million contract to provide limousine service for the Department of Homeland Security.
May 2, 2006 | Permalink
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It should be noted that everyone implicated in this scheme is a Republican member of Congress. Its time for a change!
Posted by: Ryan | May 2, 2006 12:32:34 PM
I would have thought that since there is sex involved, the main stream media will eat it up, but the media was totally uninterested in the fact that a mail whore with an assumed name visited the Whitehouse over 200 times, so we’ll see. The rules are clearly different than they were during the Clinton administration.
Posted by: Bill Batten | May 2, 2006 1:38:39 PM
Well isn’t this a piece of good news! What will happen to any of the Repubs if they get themselves caught in an investigation and they are exposed for what they are, a slap on the wrist and told not to do it again! I can’t believe W isn’t being censured or impeached at this point. Hes a criminal and his whole administration is slime. They make their own rules and do as they damn well please and no one can question them. Thats total BS and everyone knows it. Come on Democrats and do something and show the world you have the b—s to take them on.
Sad to say that it seems to take a sexual scandal that finally gets the interest of the general public. I prefer that each and every one of them get a blow job and quit selling out the country.
Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee!
Of course, the thought that flits across every reader’s brow is: will Goss be the one? The one, that is, to give us the inside story on Bush’s criminal follies. O’Neill tried, as did Clarke. The one with the most cachet who has kept his mouth shut is Colin Powell, who has thus failed to earn forgiveness for his fraudulent conjob before the Security Council.
Now a CIA director, former or otherwise, I suppose is expected to keep the lip zipped. And perhaps I am overlooking the observation that the neocons in power today commit their crimes in plain view, out in the open and dare you to come after them. Ah well, I guess I’ll have to wait for the next disembarking rodent to squeek.
Seeing is believing! When any one of them is marched away in chains(like Susan McDougall was, then I will believe!
All well and good that the ReThugliCons should self-destruct from their evil actions, just don’t think that you will VOTE them out. They control the vote-valves (electronic vote-stealing machines) and they will use them to maintain power in the House and Senate. Polls going in, exit polls election day, and polls afterward will all be discounted by the corporate media and the complainers will be labelled “conspiracy nuts.” Good Luck America — fascism is on the way.
Can we now talk about the work Dan Hopsicker has done at madcownews.com? Dan published a book called Barry and the Boys, about CIA/DEA pilot Barry Seal. Adorning the front cover is a picture of a CIA assassination team from Operation 40, whose area of opperations was Mexico, Central, and South America. Felix Rodriguez, Dubya’s daddy’s friend is on the cover along with Watergate figures Bernard Barker and Frank Sturgis. The white guy in the foreground bears a very striking resemblance to C. Porter Goss, a former CIA agent whose area of responsibility was Latin America, a resemblance right doen to the nose and ears, two features that are used to identify people from pictures.
This CIA assignment would also have put old Porter in Mexico at the time Oswald is supposed to have been there and during which an intensive effort was made to create an Oswald legend through the use of a double and mischief at the Cuban embassy.
Porter Goss was more than just another former CIA agent when he was picked by Dubya, he was being rewarded for his past and he was chosen to dismantle the CIA so its loyal agents could not topple Bush.
Maybe, just maybe, the reign of the despots is over and the long knives are coming out at Langley. Bush should be very worried.
Goss may be the missing link between administration operatives and the 9/11 conspirators. Someone needs to follow the money trail to the stock market “put” calls on the airlines involved. Also, was Goss involved in the directive to spirit the Bin Laden relatives out of the U.S. immediately after 9/11?
I think he is the one tied to the hookers and gave Darth Cheeney the info on Plame, who gave it to libby, rove and shrub.
All the dirty little secerets come back to the same white house.
very funny and terribly sad.
I hate to be a Cassandra (again), but repukes worked for last 30 years or so, to cover every inch of their filthy carcasses with a teflon armor. Mind my words: even if Goss got a public b.j. from no less than dubya, NOTHING would undermine the unholy sanctity of this congress and/or administration.
It just will not stick.
Therefore the reson for Goss’ departure is different than mere hooker nonscandal. And we may never find out.
Sex scandals are the most precious of all commodities when it comes to getting the attention of the tv addicted masses. In an interesting footnote a mention of Jeff Gannon the gay prostie in regards to this growing scandal is already being scrubbed from websites.
China was only the beta version.
RepugliCONs have to pay for sex?!!! What is happening in this country? Calm down folks. We won’t see anything on the msm after next week unless some courageous journalist (are there any?) follows this story into the slime. But it is an interesting story, and I’m sure our gung ho bloggers are not going to let this one slide by. Thank the Creator for the Internet!!!
Yes it is all emenating from the Johnny Gosch case, The Franklin Cover Up by John DeCamp, Bohemia Grove(www.infowars.com) and using pictures of VIP’s with little boys and girls in ghoulish sexcapades to blackmail them into performing like automatons of the secret government. I’m afraid the occult aspects are too disturbing to mention. We have been taken over.
What about the Ass. Press Secretary for Homeland Security. What gave him the audacity and confidence to act with such impunity? Maybe because there are so many comprimised power brokers in our government who have risen to the top because they have been tempted by evil and sold there souls so to speak as pictures of them with children sexually are used to manipulate their every move.Cant be part of Satan’s hellfire celebrity club unless they got ya doinking little boys and girls. Its disgusting but true.
RepugliCONs have to pay for sex?!!! What is happening in this country? Calm down folks. We won’t see anything on the msm after next week unless some courageous journalist (are there any?) follows this story into the slime. But it is an interesting story, and I’m sure our gung ho bloggers are not going to let this one slide by. Thank the Creator for the Internet!!!
I just want to know where Jeff Gannon/Jim Guckert fits into Hookergate???
Free limo service to the White House? To the Watergate? To the Westin?
I’m not necessarily saying there is any connection between Gannon/Guckert and Hookergate (or Watergate II), but there is still the question of how he got into and out of the White House without all his entrances and exits being recorded.
And since Gannon/Guckert apparently did out-calls, and since it is highly unlikely that all the one’s looking for prostitutes would have been only looking for women, then I just wonder……
Yeah, and that manno a manno action doesn’t play well with the voters, so if there are photos that someone has….
Well, let’s say I’ve wondered about the Bush family’s ability to control things and why no one will speak out against them for quite some time now. Perhaps this explains things, eh?
If we’re lucky it’s all about hookers; if we’re not, it’s just about John Negroponte flexing his muscles.
It has been said that in the final days the devil will take off his mask and walk among us revealed and that we will be surprised at who he is.
What a hoot to watch the ‘upright moral majority’ tripping over their johnsons at every step.
Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!
I love it. No trolls. They are getting fewer and fewer. So hard to defend what can’t be defended. Cognitive dissonance is a bitch god whom Republicans must pray to daily.
There’s also a lot of that “Nothing to see here, Citizen. Move along.” stuff going on within the (government’s) 911 truth movement.
Personally, I’m a bit relieved to see this CIA director canned: Back when he ran the House intelligence committee, he once remarked that he’d investigate Bush if someone sent him a stained blue dress, so I called his Congressional office and asked what size dress Porter wore…
Maybe he is linked to the prostitutes, but I think its more likely that Bush wants to use the CIA domestically and not even Goss would do it. So they put in the NSA fixer. This is just speculation, but as far as I know so is the prostitute story. Also, if Bush appointes Hayden and the Senate confirms him, that is a backdoor approval for the NSA’s illegal wiretaps.
while most would like to see goss tied to hookergate and there probably is some evidenceof that this is more a power struggle within the agency,the field reps and agents hated goss,he was brought in by cheney so cheney could get all the info he wanted,well the agents fired back and threatened exposing some sensitive info about goss hookergate and also operation 40,interesting subject,it appears goss and several others met with lee harvey oswald days before k assasination.
Well hell yea, it’s the only way a Repug can get laid… I mean, look at em!
The repukelicans can murder, rob, kill, maim, and steal, with impunity, but crank in the most powerful weapon on the planet, pussy, and then you get everyone’s attention.
I’ve long said that all women should be made to carry a concealed weapon permit for those things.
HOOKRGATE and THE MEDIA
Joe 6 pack understood the Lewinski affair because it had to do with sex. You would think that the brewing Hookergate scandal should be a slamdunk, right? Sadly, it won’t be because the media has consistantly failed to show the Republican Hipocracy of the past 10 years. Observe:
1. Rush Linbaugh is a drug abuser, who illegally doctor shopped, yet self rightiously attacks drug abusers while being an adict himself. Did the media bring that point out? NO!
2. Guliani is made the media darling for his heroic actions on,911, but cheated on his wife while they both lived in the NYC mayor’s residence.
3. Cheney is not given a breathalizer test after shooting a man in the face, but God forbide if we ever let up on REP. Patrick Kennedy.
4. Governor Arnold is a sexual harasser, but the media dismisses it because it was “in the past”, yet they cling on to every lie of Paula Jones.
5. Bush lets members of the bin Laden family escape the US in the hours after 911, but anyone who criticizes the Bush administration is a traitor. Only Michael Moore brought this up.
6. Bush is a cocaine user, with DUI’s as a man in his 40’s, but like REP. Henry Hyde’s affair that broke up a man’s marriage the media accepts his statement that it was a”Youthful indiscretion”.
7. Tom Delay prommotes the tax free shelter for his Abrahamoff business connections on the island of Sipan, but the Chinese workers there are often forced into abortions. Family Values my ass! Only Al Franken has talked about this.
8. Ken Star wastes millions on a fishing expedition, of an ultra- conservative-backed, Paula Jones, yet Republican blowhards are currently whining about the cost of investigating the outing of a covert CIA agent working on Nukes in Iran in “Plamegate”. Fair and Balanced? Ha Ha Ha !!!!!!!!!!!
9. The conservative Supreme Court constantly stresses the the importantance of “State’s Rights”, yet decides strictly on partisian grounds to stop the Florida recount in 2000. Where was the media on that point?
10. John Kerry is Swiftboated by that nasty little fuck Karl Rove, yet “W” got Daddy to pulls strings to get out of going to Vietnam and then he goes AWOL from the Alabama National Guard. But the real story here is: “Rathergate”. Come on!
Question: With the pro conservative media of today, how will Hookergate be any different?
This helps explains why the “Koolaid drinking” FOX News viewers continue believe that any Republican misdeeds are OK. The media spins everything in favor of the Republicans or fails to report there wrongs at all. Without an independant media, kiss our democracy goodbye!
It pains me, but “Hookergate” won’t be any different.
Chuck
Sex Scandals and Gay Hookers
Oh, what will the Republicans come up with next?!? Was Porter Goss forced out of the CIA because of his incompetence or because he’s too close to the Republican hooker scandal? And just what gender are the hookers at Duke’s…
Why hasn’t anyone distributed the photo of dumya patting the top of Gannon’s bald head…at a public function, no less?
Does anyone need a thousand words to explain that act?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/15/172151/867
Patriot is right! These bastards will retain their majority through the use of the corrupted voting machines. We tried twice before to vote these sob’s out with electronic voting so why do so many people think that it will work this time. WELCOME TO FASCISM AMERICA!
I’m sure the Unindicted Disgrace of The United States has already contacted John ‘I cannot tell a lie’ Roberts about Negroponte’s Confirmation for the CIA. This will stall the Report on The Fiction for Iraq from seeing daylight until after the mid-term elections.
What’s wrong with politicians having it it off with paid sex workers? Remember, the time politicians spend f****** these ladies takes away from the time that they might otherwise be f****** America and the world.
I must say, it’s very generous of the folks making this solely about so called “Republicans”.
The dynamic of corruption and graft at the root of all that’s rotten inside the beltway, BENEFITS immensely from the polarized perception of “Left/Right politics.” That’s a huge part of The Game. More of the blame game, that politicians play on each other, is for theatre and distraction, than most Americans know. No. It’s not conspiracy theory. It’s just the way it’s played.
For as long as most folks think the government is “them”, instead of us, for just that long will this tired story keep playing, with only the party’s and politicos names changing.
Dig deep, and ignore the left right of it all, and behind the scenes you’ll find pols providing an awful lot of “professional courtesy” to each other.
Still, perfectly intelligent folks still talk left/right polarized politics, as if that’s a real mechanism for what’s good or bad in our current political system.
And so……………. the corruption continues………
The news the last 2 days was about
P Kennedy’s ambien and phenergan usage. Fox made a real big deal out of it. Got more news coverage then Chaney’s shooting someone. But the truth behind it, Hide what is really going on…. Maybe the White house staff should use ambien. It might help keep them in bed at night. cut the cost of visits Jeff makes. more to come! Picture’s
Folks, does anyone consider that sex scandals are not what they are worried about-what if it is a power struggle between Negroponte and Goose (I mean Goss) lost out-not because he was so principled but rather because Negroponte’s perspective requires absolute obedience? Isn’t it possible that sex scandals aren’t enough to push this Congress out? Personally, I am worried.
Bushco is now all but finished off ….
Chuck Stephens encapsulated it well:
The only value that the GOP has anymore is self-serving hypocrisy. (let’s add in the corporate Democrats there as well, just self-serving hypocrisy.)
Almost the whole U.S. Congress is a human cess pool of corruption.
Besides, another list like Chuck’s could be made on all the “fake left” leading the Democratic party, starting with the Clintons who introduced most of the police state creation during his tenure in the 1990s, etc., and Hillary Clinton working with arming Iraq in the late 1980s with George H. W. Bush himself through a corporation called American Lafarge.
The late David Brower of the Sierra Club said that the whitewash of Clinton/Gore was so good that no one knew how much worse their tenures were for the environment than even the previous Bush I admin.!
So widen the net. The two parties “running” the U.S. are the most evil and self-serving bunch of corporate criminals yet. Two parties of hypocrites, both involved in the international drug trade and covering it up, both involved in vote fraud and refusing to address it!
On Clinton/Bush family connections with drug trade protection, read the book _Compromised.
For Democratic support of GOP vote fraud, all you should do is watch Gore verify the 2000 Electoral Congress vote, in the opening scenes of Moore’s Farenheit 9-11!
For 2004, all you have to do is remember Kerry rolling over for his Skull and Bones buddy Bush, Jr.!
Remember it was the Kerry Commission (Bonesman John Kerry!) who covered up the extent of the Iran-Contra affairs of the Bonesmen heavy Bush family in the 1980s!
Anyone who STILL supports the Republicans or the Democrats–or thinks they are different parties, are surely insane by now.
Open your eyes. Behind all their talk of being different parties, they are the same corrupt network operating the U.S.
There are real Reupblicans and real Democrats as individuals, though their parties are totally commmitted to Bush’s pre-emptive total surveillance police state along this Fourth Reich plan.
Who ’set up’ the hooker op and why? These are the real questions. Did the spooks fall for one of their own oldest tricks & become entrapped themselves? Compromised politicians are nothing new. Supposedly Bush is totally compromised by Israel (gayness & drug dealing), not to mention Skull & Bones (gayness. Clinton was owned lock stock and barrel by the ‘company’ while Ark. Gov. Bill Casey & Ollie North used the state as their own private 3rd world airbase for Contra pilots, flying guns out and drugs in. I just take it for a fact that all politicians are compromised somehow. If they don’t play ball, they get ‘Clintoned’ or even ‘Wellstoned”. Yeah, WHO set this up? Jeff Gannon?
Gee does ‘republican’ and ‘democrat’ have any true meaning anymore?
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THIS FORCED RESIGNATION HAS NOTHINH TO DO WITH HOOKERS AS WE ARE BEING LED TO BELEIVE.THIS HAS TO DO WITH A MORE SINISTER PLAN BEING DRAWN UP WHICH I WILL NOT ELABORATE ON AND PORTER GOSS IS NOT WILLING TO COMPLY WITH THIS SINISTER PLAN SO….BYE-BYE MR. GOSS
question of the day…
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