Explanation for Goss resignation depends on who reporters usualy talk to

Through Kevin Drum we get an interesting observattion on which reporters center on what explanations.

Talk to national security sources and they'll tell you Goss was fired because of national security turf wars. Talk to law enforcement sources and they'll tell you it was because of hookers. Talk to congressional aides or White House insiders and they'll give you yet another story.

But it was the national security reporters who wrote the initial stories, so a national security angle is what we got. Wait a few days and the conventional wisdom might change.

This explanation is plausible. A research would say that it has "face validitiy." Unfortunately, if it is true, it tells us more about the state of the media reporting suystem than it does about why Porter Goss left so suddenly.

We still have at least three groups of explanations that may or may not overlap. Learning more about one explanation is unlikely to give much information about the accuracy of the others.

Still, there is a lot of mystery about Goss' resignation, mystery that would not exist if the White House spin machine were working at the efficiency it did previously. There is still a lot to learn behind this set of mysteries.

I'm looking forward to learning more.