Hookergate hits home?

by Henry Farrell on May 5, 2006

Porter Goss has “resigned”:http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-White-House-Shake-up.html?hp&ex=1146888000&en=17709b88f1d4bcc3&ei=5094&partner=homepage.

Update: “Laura Rozen”:http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/004090.html has more.

{ 17 comments }

1

blah 05.05.06 at 1:30 pm

Did Porter Gross bang hookers? The NY Times article didn’t say anything about hookers.

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Matt Weiner 05.05.06 at 1:45 pm

Handy one-stop shop. (Note that the corruption is actually a lot more disturbing than the hookers.)

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Barry Freed 05.05.06 at 2:07 pm

Hookers? These were professional working women they were shtupping. It’s not like any interns were molested for Jeebus’ sake. Nothing to see here. Move along….

4

Anderson 05.05.06 at 2:38 pm

Will the chant of “Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy” drown this out? Maybe Rove picked up the phone & told Goss this was as good a day as he was likely to get.

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nick s 05.05.06 at 3:10 pm

Good to see that the FBI background check on Goss ferretted all this out before his confirmation.

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abb1 05.05.06 at 4:12 pm

What, you never wanted to spend more time with the family?

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KCinDC 05.05.06 at 4:28 pm

Hmm, a Friday afternoon with the Kennedy and Goss stories going. I wonder what all the White House is dumping on the media today to be lost in the hubbub?

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yoyo 05.05.06 at 4:42 pm

Who wouldn’t want to spend more time with the family after being caught with hookers? Sounds like fun to me.

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abb1 05.05.06 at 5:06 pm

To be fair, though: those were free hookers; really, the family has no more reason to complain than if he was caught wanking off in the shower.

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Anderson 05.05.06 at 5:59 pm

the family has no more reason to complain than if he was caught wanking off in the shower

I don’t *think* I can get AIDS or syphillis from my shower.

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Jack 05.06.06 at 3:43 am

The BBC had a Mr. Bobbit talking about a mass exodus from the clandestine part of the CIA which had apparently left it crippled. That might also be a problem.

The NYT article said that there were 16 intelligence agencies, can anyone name them all? I have, CIA, FBI, Secret Service(bodyguards), NSA, Army and presumably Navy and Airforce intelligence but that leaves another 9 agencies to go.

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Tim May 05.06.06 at 6:03 am

Wikipedia lists 18 United States intelligence agencies, but 16 members of the US Intelligence Community, so that’s probably what we want. You’re missing: Defense Intelligence Agency; Marine Corps Intelligence Agency; National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; National Reconnaissance Office; Drug Enforcement Administration Intelligence Division; Coast Guard Intelligence; Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis; Department of Energy Office of Intelligence; Bureau of Intelligence and Research (State Department); Office of Intelligence Support (Treasury). (Secret Service isn’t on that list, though it is on the other one.)

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abb1 05.06.06 at 6:08 am

All designed by Intelligent Agency…

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etat 05.06.06 at 8:56 am

The idea that Straw was fired seems pretty silly next to reports like this:

Thus Jack Straw discussed last year what he would do when he stopped globe-trotting ( nine years of non-stop crisis management at home and foreign offices) and told the premier that he wanted to be leader of the Commons.

He calls himself “a parliamentarian to his fingertips” and it is true. Though it has come sooner than he hoped Straw will thrive, and parliament’s status with him: he believes it is MPs job to irritate ministers and make their bills better.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1768790,00.html

It’s as though the press cannot make up its mind, or that one side is spinning hopeful stories without knowing that someone else is speaking from some sounder basis.

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mykej 05.08.06 at 2:00 am

Hooker-GATE? Uhm, don’t you know where he was banging the hookers? Why can’t we drop the lame “gate” suffix for every scandal, and call this one by a better name: Watergate.

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anthony 05.08.06 at 5:23 am

ive been working on getting the phrase metagate in currency, it doesnt seem to work

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dearieme 05.08.06 at 9:13 am

When Mr Blair says that Mr Straw is a “House of Commons man”, it ain’t praise.

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