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Bush's new CIA chief.(George W Bush)(Brief Article)
"I couldn't get a job with CIA today," commented Congressman Porter Goss (R-Fla.) in a videotaped interview with leftist film producer Michael Moore last March. "I am not qualified. I don't have the language skills. I don't have the cultural background probably. And I certainly don't have the technical skills."
More recently, President Bush nominated Congressman Goss--who did serve 10 years in the CIA's clandestine service prior to being elected to Congress--to head the Agency. This choice was made despite the fact that Rep. Goss voted to cut the Agency's human intelligence budget by 20 percent in 1995. This makes for an interesting counterpoint to the Bush administration's assault on Senator John Kerry for casting nearly identical votes to reduce the CIA's budget.
The Senate confirmed Rep. ...
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...Over 15 years of service, Porter Goss has built a reputation as...mean he seems to have -- Porter Goss seems to have exactly the...not something wrong with Porter Goss. Whether he can be confirmed...immediately. But you know, a new CIA director, we don't have...
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