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Some more VIPS in action, including Johnson and Cannistraro back in August 2004 on the Goss nomination. This politization of the Agency is without precedent. Michael Scheuer, the ex-CIA man who wrote the book Imperial Hubris while still working at the Agency is another example of rogue agents who have become political partisans and are cashing in on their "insider" knowledge. Congress needs to crack down on these crackpots.

CIA dismay at Porter Goss' nomination as DCIA

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Howlin, you called it!

Former CIA agent Larry Johnson also questioned Goss's qualifications. "There is one thing Goss didn't really do for the last several years -- he didn't chair the House Intelligence Committee, in spite of what his resume claims," said Johnson. "Instead, he did the dead man's float."

Johnson said Goss did not have the experience claimed. Goss did not "push through real reforms, for example, getting more funding for badly clandestine assets. He didn't do any of it."

Former CIA Counter-terrorism Chief Vince Cannistraro agreed: "Goss has never been very distinguished, but he's protected. He's a Bush loyalist and has been in the forefront of those who have tried to place the major blame for the 9/11 attacks on the agency."