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http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/05/kristol-goss/

2006/ 05/ 05

Kristol: ‘Sudden’ Goss Resignation Prompted By ‘Something That Popped
This Week’


Minutes ago on Fox News, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol said he
doesn’t believe the White House spin that Porter Goss’ resignation had
been planned for at least a few weeks.

I think there were either serious disputes or some internal problem at
the agency or some scandal conceivably involving an associate of
Goss’.

Who knows? Something that popped this week and that caused this sudden
event this Friday.

Read the full transcript:


BILL KRISTOL:

It wasn’t done in a routine way.

I don’t think people -- certainly people close to Goss did not expect
this to happen.

Senior congressmen and senators didn’t expect this to happen.

I’m not sure the White House expected this to happen.

... I do think this was sudden.

It was unexpected.

There will be more of a story that will come out.

I don’t know what it implies for the future of the agency and Goss’
effort to shake up an institution, an institution that’s very
difficult to shake up.

But I do not believe it was part of a long-planned --


SHEPHARD SMITH:

How the heck could it have been?

In a Bush White House world, things are lined up and they’re put out
in a sort of meticulous, controlled way.

I can envision -- if this had been planned in advance, there would
have been almost an immediate announcement of a replacement, the hugs,
the thank yous, probably a medal or something like that.

Instead what we now have a vacuum, and you have to wonder what could
have gone boom like that to cause him,

A) tender the resignation and,

B) for the President to accept it under these circumstances.


KRISTOL:

Well you and I think alike, Shep.

Either it’s brilliant minds or suspicious minds thinking alike --


SMITH:

It is just out of character.


KRISTOL:

It looked that way to me.

What was striking about the statement in the Oval Office with the
President, he didn’t say, "I will serve until my successor is
confirmed," which is the usual practice.

In the written statement, he says he intends to be there for a few
weeks to help ensure a smooth transition, but implying he could well
leave before his successor is confirmed by the United States Senate.

So again, I think there were either serious disputes or some internal
problem at the agency or some scandal conceivably involving an
associate of Goss’.

Who knows?

Something that popped this week and that caused this sudden event this
Friday.

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Something popped, eh? What could that have been?

Girlies?