Porter Goss and Bush's Poor Judgement

CIA Director Porter Goss turned the main intelligence agency into an unsettled, tense place to work and his leadership led to numerous quality folks leaving that entity.

Now word is leaking that old Porter was involved in some funny business at the Watergate Hotel. The talk is of hookers, poker and bribes.

I don't think the bribery issue will effect Goss, but the hookers are a different story.

Throughout history, intelligence agencies have used information such as this to get agents to reveal secrets using blackmail. The Director of the CIA putting himself in this situation is more than a little disturbing.

If there's been one thing about the Bush administration that has irked me, it's the fact that he installs poor choices into important offices. FEMA and now the CIA leadership has been shown to be sorely lacking. They are not positions that should be filled with cronies. He seems to elevate people he trusts into positions they may not be suited to because he believes that events such as this won't happen.

I know that Goss was capable, but the task he was hired to do--rehabbing a misguided organization--should probably have been assigned to someone with a different management style...and someone who didn't get busy with hookers.

Points to the Bush folks for picking a day when a Kennedy was in the news for yet another intoxicant incident. Lessening the blow as it were.