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WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 - As chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Porter J. Goss, Republican of Florida, watched over American intelligence agencies through all seven years that George J. Tenet was running them. But even in those turbulent times, Mr. Goss cast himself more as a rebuilder than as a watchdog. Now, as he seeks to succeed Mr. Tenet as director of central intelligence, Mr. Goss is facing questions about those years of oversight. At a time when agencies were struggling to rebound from a post-cold-war nadir, current and former Congressional officials say, Mr. Goss was a consistent champion...

AN IVY LEAGUE degree and years of service as a trained and experienced field operative make for a firm foundation as a CIA chief, particularly when you need someone to shake things up and build the solid organization that is right for the times. ** Mr. Dulles turned the CIA into the Cold War's premier intelligence agency, giving equal weight to collection, analysis and covert operations. He held the job until 1961, when President John F. Kennedy fired him after a CIA-backed coup against Cuba's Fidel Castro collapsed at the Bay of Pigs (though the failure had less to do...

WASHINGTON - Porter Goss, tapped as the next CIA (news - web sites) director, says the Senate lacked "balance" in its public hearings investigating the Iraqi prison scandal and should not have plucked military commanders from the field to question them about the abuse. Goss took a hard line on interrogations in interviews with The Associated Press earlier this year, saying "Gee you're breaking my heart" to complaints that Arab men found it abusive to have women guards at the Guantanamo Bay terror camp — statements that could draw scrutiny during his Senate confirmation hearing (news - web sites), possibly...

WASHINGTON -- President Bush's nominee to be the director of central intelligence, Representative Porter J. Goss, Republican of Florida, cosponsored legislation that would have cut intelligence personnel by 20 percent in the late 1990s. ... The Bush reelection campaign has been blasting Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry as deeply irresponsible for proposing intelligence cuts at the same time. A Bush campaign ad released on Aug. 13 carried a headline: "John Kerry . . . proposed slashing Intelligence Budget 6 Billion Dollars." But the cuts Goss supported are larger than those proposed by Kerry and specifically targeted the "human intelligence"...

...Mr. Roberts... would dismantle the CIA into three separate agencies responsible for operations, analysis and technology. He then would bring them, and the intelligence agencies now in the Pentagon, under the control of the new national intelligence director. All of that and presumably keep fighting al Qaeda at the same time. We'll want to learn more, but our first reaction is to be skeptical of any plan that takes well-run intelligence assets away from the Defense Department, especially with troops currently fighting around the world.... We'd give Mr. Roberts more credit if his 139 pages of reform proposals addressed the...

Democrat Warns That Blocking Goss' CIA Nomination Is 'Wrong Fight' in Election YearWASHINGTON Aug. 15, 2004 — The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee warned fellow Democrats in the Senate on Sunday against trying to block the nomination of Rep. Porter Goss as CIA director, saying that would be picking the wrong fight in this election year. Democrats should ask tough questions of Goss, R-Fla., at Senate confirmation hearings next month, but "my view is this is the wrong fight," Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "To get stuck in a fight about Porter Goss...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Former Vice President Al Gore charged Thursday that President Bush's nomination of Republican Rep. Porter Goss to lead the CIA continues the president's pattern of using the Sept. 11 tragedy for political benefit. Gore, in a speech to the Music Row Democrats, said that with the selection of Goss, an eight-term congressman from Florida, Bush "just thumbed his nose" at the bipartisan commission established to investigate the attacks. Gore said the commission recommended a change in the structure of intelligence-gathering and the creation of a new position to coordinate intelligence. Gore called a Goss, chairman of the...

In nominating U.S. Rep. Porter Goss to be the next director of Central Intelligence, President Bush has chosen a man very capable of heading the nation's intelligence community. While the job for which Rep. Goss has been nominated may soon be redefined, the president does not have the luxury of time in the midst of a war to postpone leadership decisions until all disputes about the future structure of intelligence have been decided. Rep. Goss, a former intelligence officer, is doubly qualified to lead the Central Intelligence Agency. As chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, the Florida Republican is already...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Congressman Porter Goss, President Bush's nominee for CIA director, could be his own worst enemy when it comes to making the case that he deserves to lead the U.S. intelligence agency. "I couldn't get a job with CIA today. I am not qualified," the Florida Republican told documentary-maker Michael Moore's production company during the filming of the anti-Bush movie "Fahrenheit 9/11." A day after Bush picked Goss for the top U.S. spy job, Moore on Wednesday released an excerpt from a March 3 interview in which the 65-year-old former House of Representatives intelligence chief recounts his...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 - In nominating Representative Porter J. Goss of Florida as director of central intelligence, President Bush is hoping to open a new chapter at the C.I.A. after a run of epic intelligence failures, but he may be buying himself as much trouble as he is trying to overcome. On one level, the appointment is an effort to improve the performance of the C.I.A. and heal the divisions between the White House and the intelligence fraternity in Washington at a moment when accurate information about terror threats and nuclear proliferation is desperately needed. Mr. Goss, a Republican who...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 - President Bush on Tuesday nominated Representative Porter J. Goss, the longtime chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, to head the Central Intelligence Agency at a moment of heated debate about both the agency's shortcomings and how to execute the broadest overhaul of American intelligence operations in more than half a century. Within hours of Mr. Bush's announcement, the nomination appeared to be headed for an election-year battle on Capitol Hill. Mr. Bush praised Mr. Goss, a Florida Republican who spent a decade as a C.I.A. case officer during the height of the cold war in the...

PELOSI VS. PELOSIHouse Minority Leader Pelosi Breaks Her Pledge To Support Porter Goss For CIA Director_______________________________________________PROMISE MADE …In June, Pelosi Pledged Her Support For Goss If He Was Nominated Because Of His Independence.  “If Goss is nominated for the post, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California said that she would support him. Pelosi worked closely with Goss during the congressional investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks. Whoever replaces Tenet needs to be independent of political pressure, Pelosi said. Goss, who worked for the CIA before becoming a congressman in 1988, has shown that ability as chairman of the House...

If Porter Goss becomes the next CIA director (a big if, by the way), two predictions can be made with confidence. First, to the extent possible, he will return the agency's clandestine branch to its adventurous, gun-toting days of yore. Second, he will be ruthlessly loyal to George W. Bush. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Goss, who has been the Republican chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for the past eight years, was himself a CIA spy from 1962-71, stationed in Miami during the Cuban...

By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON - President Bush on Tuesday nominated Rep. Porter Goss of Florida to head the CIA amid terror and tumult, saying the former undercover operative "knows the CIA inside and out" and can bolster its spy network. "He is well prepared for this mission," the president said of Goss, chairman of the House intelligence committee who was an Army intelligence operative before joining the CIA the 1960s. "He's the right man to lead and support the agency at this critical moment in our nation's history." Goss, whose nomination must be confirmed by the...

NewsweekJuly 5, 2004 issue - Porter J. Goss of Hotchkiss and Yale has long been seen as a model of patrician restraint on Capitol Hill. After 9/11, when other Republicans in charge of overseeing intelligence condemned CIA Director George Tenet, Goss stayed nimbly above the fray. "I'm not going to fall for the bait of getting into the political discussion," the chairman of the House intelligence committee, who served in the CIA's clandestine service for a decade, once said. So many a bushy eyebrow was raised when Goss interrupted a House debate on a new intelligence bill—typically a fairly genteel,...

... Judging from the headlines, the spooks are no longer bothering to conceal their political views from broad public view. And their new boldness is mainly directed at discrediting the commander in chief. But all these factious revelations about administration "errors" reveal something more disturbing than the possibility that the Central Intelligence Agency et al have gone out of control. ... First came the estimable Richard Clarke, who emerged some months ago from 10 years of anonymity in the bowels of the White House to claim his 15 minutes of fame. His theme, that the president didn't heed the Clarke...

Goss' financial forms show worth up to $53 million By JOEL ESKOVITZ, eskovitzj@shns.com June 28, 2004 WASHINGTON — If U.S. Rep. Porter Goss is going to take another job in Washington, it's not going to be for the money. The Sanibel Republican and oft-rumored successor to George Tenet as head of the CIA is worth anywhere between $16 million and $53 million, according to recently released financial disclosure forms that document the assets held last year by the congressman and his wife. His Southwest Florida GOP colleague, U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, has a lot of catching up to do. His...

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WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Representative Porter Goss (R-FL), issued the following statement regarding U.S. Senator John Kerry's speech on national security: "John Kerry's speech today amounted to little more than political 'me-tooism.' He laid out some old goals that everyone agrees to, without offering concrete proposals to achieve them. He also neglected the President's historic achievements in this area. "We've seen important progress on these issues just this week, with Russia announcing that it will be joining the Proliferation Security Initiative put forth by President Bush last year. This is an important step forward and adds to the momentum this...

House Intelligence Chairman Porter Goss (R-Fla.) said Wednesday that former White House anti-terror czar Richard Clarke, the author of a new book critical of President Bush’s handling of the al Qaeda threat before Sept. 11, 2001, may have lied in testimony to his committee, and said he plans to explore whether Congressional action on the matter is warranted. Clarke’s “testimony to our committee is 180 degrees out of line with what he is saying in his book,” Goss said. “He’s either lying in his book or he lied to our committee. It’s one or the other.” Goss added, “If he...