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* CIA Director Porter Goss called it quits this week, and didn’t make up a reason for leaving. Not even the standard “time with my family” excuse, which of course makes us think it had something to do with the hookers or the gambling and payola. Anyway, he’s back on the gulf shore already, and everyone is waiting to hear who the next shady character to take over the job is going to be. MORE »

You can’t believe how excited we were to read this speculation, at Firedoglake: MORE »

We’ve offered you what we hope — for the sake of rumor-mongering, gossip, and this city’s desperate need for a good sex scandal — is the real reason for Porter Goss’s departure as CIA director. MORE »

Porter Goss has just resigned as director of the CIA, and President Bush has accepted his resgination. MORE »

Cynthia McKinney gets carded. Her hairstyle may be different, but her FACE has not CHANGED. Got that, motherfucker? MORE »

Most people would prefer to read the phone book over news about the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. And since we don’t get pension benefits around here, the subject doesn’t interest us much either. MORE »

What’s the sort of news that can rouse us from our weekend weather intoxication? The arrest of a former White House adviser, of course: MORE »

Claude Allen (right), the President’s principal domestic policy adviser, resigned abruptly this week, citing the old Washington Classic about spending more time with one’s family. Allen was a Movement Conservative with strong ties to the fundamentalist Christian element of Bush’s base and acted as “point person on abstinence initiatives.” MORE »