WASHINGTON -
CIA Director Porter Goss has resigned,
President Bush said Friday.


Bush called Goss' tenure one of transition.

"He has led ably," Bush said from the Oval Office. "He has a five-year plan to increase the analysts and operatives."

Bush said that Goss, a former member of Congress, has "helped make this country a safer place."

"We've got to win the war on terror," Bush said.

Said Goss: "I would like to report to you that the agency (CIA) is back on a very even keel and sailing well."

He was quickly becoming tied to a number of republican scandals, including the duke cunningham bribery shit, as all was as the recent hookers at the watergate hotel stuff. he was probably a sinking ship that decided to get out before it gets ugly for him and his ilk.