Common Sense

Was I just not paying attention, or is Porter Goss resigning as head of the CIA a really big bombshell?

Last fall, Goss defended his agency’s track record and insisted “we know more than we’re able to say publicly” about terror chiefs Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

The al-Qaida leaders haven’t been found “primarily because they don’t want us to find them and they’re going to great lengths to make sure we don’t find them,” Goss said in a November interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

“We’re applying a lot of efforts to find out where they are.” He insisted that the CIA knows “a good deal more” about the men “than we’re able to say publicly.”

I wonder if this has anything to do with all those polygraph tests to find the leakers who tipped off the press about the secret prisons in Eastern Europe and the NSA illegal wiretapping scandal, or is he not allowed to say publicly?