Bush's new director of the CIA, Porter Goss, just quit.

My guess is he's balls-deep in a growing scandal -- a whole other animal than the CIA Leak or Abramoff business -- involving crooked defense contracts, congressional bribes, and even.... wait for it... hookers.

This scandal took down SoCal congressman Duke Cunningham a little while ago -- he's spending eight years in jail, longest sentence ever for a congresscritter -- and it's been building steam since then. Apparently this cat Brent Wilkes has been directiing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of defense contracts through traditional lobbying, straight-up bribery, and apparently gettin' hard-up representatives some poon.

In a lovely twist, the limousine company owner who supplied the pros to the WaterGate hotel "hospitality suites" (and who also has a lengthy rap sheet), got more than $20M in Homeland Security contracts. What a wonderful cycle!

All this is small potatoes profiteering compared to Haliburton or the billions that the Pentagon just doesn't know what it did with, but it's proably more politically explosive because there's snatch involved. With 45% of self-described conservatives already upset with Bush and the GOP, this is likely to hurt them further, as it's harder to run on "traditional values" when your colleagues are getting busted for sleeping with pros.

And you know how that town loves to have a freakout over sex. Gonna be a long hot summer.