Was it the hookers or the cash?

Porter Goss resigned as director of the CIA today. No reason for his resignation was given. In the press opp at the White house with Goss and Bush, the president offered no schedule for Goss' departure, or for the naming of his replacement. Any day now, the public will probably learn that Goss was quitting ahead of a major sex and bribery scandal.

Obviously, the White House is doing some form of damage control. If this was well planned, they would have had a replacement in mind already. Some bad news is coming.

Bill Kristol, normally a satanic apologist for the White House, actually had a rare moment of candor on Fox News earlier today when he speculated that some bad news was coming and that's why Goass was suddenly leaving. He even alluded to some rumors that so far have been largely confined to blogs and some print media.

For you see, rumors are swirling that Goss is one of a handful of past and current congressmen who shared in the spoils and largesse of disgraced Calif. congressman Duke Cunningham who pleaded guilty to taking bribes from defense contractor while he sat on the defense appropriations subcommittee.

Those rumors are that the FBI is investigating several past and current congressmen. The investigation is looking at defense contractors Brent Wilkes, the founder of ADCS Inc., and Mitchell Wade, the founder of MZM Inc., who supposedly held poker games at the Watergate and Westin Grand hotels in DC with Cunningham and others. Those games also included free limo rides and free prostitutes. So, sex, gambling, and cash were being thrown around for congressmen who were willing to spend defense department dollars on superfluous contractors. MZM and ADCS specialized in software for defense intelligence.

And according to Harper's Weekly a former congressman who now holds a "powerful intelligence post" was one of those who is now under investigation. Who else could that be but Goss? His hand-picked number three guy, Dusty Foggo, is under investigation for corruption and bribery within the same circle of corrupt scum.

Of course the White House is already trying to spin it, even though there's nothing that will stop the tsunami of bad press that will hit when Goss's corruption hits the news. Chris Wallace, a shameless Fox News shill, reported the following breaking news: Wallace said he talked to a "top White House official" - Tony Snow, I'm sure - who said that Goss's resignation was part of Josh Bolten's ongoing White House shake up. That's just bull. A CIA director shouldn't be part of a staff shake up. He's not a part of the cabinet or a part of the White House staff. Goss is the head of an important government agency.