Legal Commentary

The "Gossling" At CQ

By Big Tent Democrat

In response to reporting like this post from TPM's Zachary Roth on the "Gosslings," Porter Goss' political hacks brought with him to the CIA, who many of us speculate are behind the smear campaigns against Jane Harman and Nancy Pelosi., CQ's unofficial "Gossling," Jeff Stein, is outraged:

Some wild imaginations have already been at work on the story. Which is fine -- except when it misrepresents what I've been writing. The drift of the latest commentary on the case is that Porter Goss, the former Republican congressman who headed the CIA during 2004-2006, was out to "get" Harman, his Democratic nemesis on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, when he was its chairman. . . . According to my sources . . . Goss was duty bound to notify congressional leaders that Harman had become enmeshed in a national security investigation, and that the FBI intended to question her about a wiretapped conversation she had with a suspected Israeli secret agent.

It's nice that Stein's "sources" say that. Of course that makes for the fifth or sixth version of the story Stein has now reported. Oh by the way, you notice what Stein does not deny in his rant? That his "sources" are in fact the "Gosslings." Sorry Stein, the jig is up.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 01, 2009 (boomark / email).