It's life or death time for the dim party and they know it.
It's about secrets.....not 'soaps'.
Unless he was in Cambodia for Christmas in 1968 and being shot at, while witnessing young and heroic Kerry in action, he will never make it!
Excellent. From what I know of Goss, he'll be "ruthlessly" loyal to these United States.
Goss also came to Bush's aid a few months earlier, during the Joseph Wilson-Valerie Plame scandal. One would think that a former CIA spy might be appalled by reports that a White House official had publicly exposed the identity of an undercover agent, especially as an act of political retaliation against the agent's spouse. The blatant politicization of intelligence is, or should be, anathema to any professional spy—or prospective CIA director.
Poor misguided and deluded Slate. Are they stupid or deceitful? They don't get or refuse to see that the Plame scandal has nothing to do with the WH doing a damn thing wrong and Goss standing by the Bush administration while that false charge is made is to be admired, not reviled. Goss was and probably is horrified at the political chicanery that was taking place within the CIA and is just the man to start cleaning it up.
Ya know... back when we weren't being gravely threatened by islamofascists.
Let's not forget that Senator JF'nK wanted to GUT the CIA in the 80's
To run the CIA, you need to have the experience as an agent.
Being ex-ASA, and CIA, he fits that qualification well. I haven't read his resume, but he probably also has some 'green beenie' experience also.
Screams about partisanship is BS. The only partisanship in the intelligence units (before clinton that is) was for the USA. We just need to finish getting rid of all the moles that we are now inundated with.
We cannot afford another dnc plant.
It is ridiculous statements like that one that lead me to question either the motives or the intelligence of the writer. The writer is parrotting a talking point handed out by Joseph Wilson and by the DNC, without applying any critical thinking to it. There is no credible evidence on the table to support the claim (or even the inference) that Plame's name was given to the media in order to retaliate (somehow) against Wilson. Identifying Plame as a CIA employee does help to illuminate why an unqualified Wilson may have been given the "job" of visiting Niger, but it does not make sense as "retaliation".
Actual retaliation might involve, for example, dirty tricks or other actions taken by Clinton appointees, such as revealing confidential information about Linda Tripp's minor brush with the law as a teenager - a revelation that does not shed any light whatsoever on how Linda Tripp became a central figure in exposing Clinton's crimes. In a similar vein, if retaliation against Wilson were the goal of the supposed administration official(s) who leaked Plame's identity to the media, then you would expect the leak to be aimed at damaging Wilson's own credibility in some fashion, such as connecting him to the KKK, or revealing juicy pictures of him in a compromising sexual position with a barnyard animal, or publicizing defamatory information from his own FBI file, or the like. Revealing Wilson's wife's complicity in the Niger affair, and Wilson's lies about it, merely opens the door for a curious investigative journalist (if any still exist) to follow the trail of an important story that was ignored by the media in their haste to annoint Wilson as a "truth-teller" who could chop the legs out from under the President.
I hope that the good guys have already prepared a campaign to domonstrate how selfish, nasty and uncaring about the nation these weasels, make that, lying weasels are.