President Bush chose Porter Goss to lead the CIA

[Disturbed]

By Terence Hunt
ASSOCIATED PRESS
1:40 p.m. August 10, 2004



Associated Press
President Bush speaks in the Rose Garden, along with Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., left, after he picked Goss, head of the House intelligence committee, to be the new director of the CIA.

WASHINGTON – President Bush chose Porter Goss, a Republican congressman and onetime spy, on Tuesday to lead the CIA as the troubled agency struggles to repair its tarnished reputation, confront new terror threats and face the uncertainty of a massive intelligence reorganization.

"He knows the CIA inside and out," Bush said of Goss, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who served as a clandestine CIA officer during the 1960s in Central America and Western Europe before making a fortune in Florida real estate and the newspaper business. "He's the right man to lead this important agency at this critical moment in our nation's history."

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Twelve weeks before the presidential election, senior Democrats complained Bush had turned to a partisan politician to fill what nominally is a nonpolitical position. Bush also was accused of trying to change the subject on a day when more than 100 House Democrats urged the president to call a special session of Congress to deal with intelligence changes proposed by the independent commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/terror/20040810-1340-bush-cia.html

* It is hoped that the Dems will have the spines to overwhelmingly vote no on Goss.