Kennedy v. Goss, Day Two... [View All]

[WilliamPitt]

A quick scan of all the major newspapers:

http://www.nytimes.com/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

http://www.latimes.com/

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

...shows three below-the-fold Kennedy car-crash stories. There's one on the Post's page, because it is a DC story. There's another on the Boston Globe's page, because he's a Kennedy and so it is a Boston story. The Guardian has one because the Brits love a good titliating famous-person-shamed story perhaps even more than we do. There isn't a single story on the NY Times page that I can spot.

The Goss story? At the top of all, banner headlines, kleig lights across the sky.

So. One story will be a waste receptacle for parakeet poop by tomorrow, and the other will keep a-runnin' for days to come...especially if the Daily News is right about Foggo resigning next week in lieu of an indictment in the Cunningham-Watergate-hookers-and-bribes-holy-crap-the-Watergate-is-back scandal.

I've been banging the phones and reading everything, by the way, and my sense is that if Goss is, in fact, involved in the Cunningham scandal, it isn't in a way that anyone knows about definitively. He may well have quit because one of his guys is caught up in the thing, and the guilt-by-association issue was too much to manage. There is also Negroponte's power play, and the simple fact that Goss was a piss-poor CIA Director who put loyalty to Bush above picayune issues like, oh, say, national defense.

The proof will be in whatever pudding gets blended from the Foggo thing. If Goss is in this, Foggo will sell him out to stave off massive prison time.

Stay tuned.