Posted on 08/10/2004 4:24:06 AM PDT by Dog
Breaking on Fox...
But the Dems WILL screw this up...they'll delay the confirmation....and remember, these are the same Dems who want to IMMEDIATELY adopt ALL of the 9/11 commission recommendations, by voice vote..
;-D
Amen,.......Infinite Grace and Mercy,........In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!
St John 8:31-32
(Romans 10:17)
I just heard on the ABC radio news that the Dems are saying that Goss is "too partisan" to be CIA director. Of course Bush is going to pick a partisan nominee.
What the hell does partisanship have to do with this post? Are they afraid that his "partisanship" will uncover all the America-hating spies serving in Congress?
What a bunch of idiots...this has to backfire on the Dems.
"Pretty hard to connect the dots when you have a mile high wall around each one and certain folks in congress just waiting to pounce if the wall is breached by so much as an inch."
So very true.
Wow!, Is he GREAT at cover disguise, or what??!
AAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH
Stupid Dems
Dems will stall his nomination till till nov2,2004.
Isn't daschle needing the voters' approval this autumn to get back into the Senate?
I said I don't know him from a hole in the wall, eh? BTW, how many regular guys have two last names?
I do make a killing. How do you know?
Just a wag. Do you have one of those tents, maybe next door to a palm reader?
No, just real money from real people. Good huh?
Lots of 'em & a few ladies, too: Lee Marvin, James Stewart, Anthony Blair, Ashley Judd, Hillary Clinton, Pierce Brosnan...need I go on? ;)
'Sides "Porter" is a cool name.
Hello, I bolded the section concerning Goss. I've heard Gertz talk in not overly flattering terms of Goss on the radio, I believe the M. Savage show.
“Performance-based oversight ended when Senator David Durenburger, Minnesota Republican, became the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, and performance-based oversight never returned during subsequent chairmanships. “The oversight business became an oversight lapdog,” [congressional intelligence veteran Angelo] Codevilla said. Recent chairman in both the House and the Senate have been dominated by members of Congress who either are unable to grasp the complexities of intelligence oversight and how to conduct oversight, or by members intent only on protecting the CIA. In many ways, congressional oversight degenerated into a mutual admiration society for secret agencies. Instead of checking on the performance of agencies and how they spend upwards of $30 billion to $35 billion of taxpayer money, the committees of Congress charged with oversight have become cheerleaders for poorly managed, badly structured, and improperly funded intelligence agencies.
Such is the case with Representative Porter Goss, Florida Republican and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee at the time of the September 11 attacks. Goss was notorious among congressional aides for stripping out any tough legislation from the annual intelligence authorization bills that would have required the CIA to become more effective. He played a major role in making sure oversight did nothing to improve the CIA. A former CIA officer, Goss saw it as his personal mission to protect the agency from its critics. The result was that the CIA was able to manipulate the House oversight panel and neutralize any serious effort to improve its performance.
Goss helped to “cover up” for the CIA’s lack of performance, Codevilla told me. “Not for any [politically] partisan purpose, but quite simply because of agency partisanship, a confusion of patriotism with agency loyalty.” For Goss and those like him, any criticism of the CIA is out of bounds. Partly as a result of the Church and Pike committees, too many supporters of the CIA and U.S. intelligence agencies in general confuse performance-based criticism with anti-intelligence criticism. (114-115)
Gertz, Bill. Breakdown - How America’s Intelligence Failures Led to September 11. Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2002.
The operative word here is "regular". I stand by my observation.
LOL Gotcha. Guess none of those people are "regular."
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