Paul Kiel May 5, 2006, 2:38 PM

As we mentioned before, former Congressman Bob Barr (R-GA) was the first on CNN to mention a connection to Brent Wilkes’ prostitution ring as the reason behind Porter Goss’ sudden resignation. Here’s the transcript:

Reporter: So why is President Bush accepting Porter Goss’s resignation? What do you make of the timing of it?

Bob Barr: I think there’s going to be more coming out. We don’t know the whole story…

Reporter: But Congressman, there’s something that doesn’t make sense here, you know? There’s something… I am wondering whether this resignation is something to come, Porter Goss wanted to get out of the way. Do you have any sense of that on Capitol Hill or from your sources in Washington?

Bobb Barr: We’ve seen brewing out of the congressman Duke Cunningham scandal, probably now for several months. It’s starting to reach into the CIA and that come very… well… like a sore that’s been festering, that could very well burst out and maybe that’s a reach into the top levels of the agency.

Reporter: Are you saying the director himself, congressman?

Bobb Barr: I can’t imagine that. I know Porter, I’ve known him for many years and I can’t imagine him part of that. But if you’ve got the top two or three people at an agency working under him and he’s going to put them in there and place the faith and the trust of the government in these people and then he becomes tainted by this, it certainly reflects on the leadership.

Bob Barr, thank you very much.

Hookergate, Porter Goss