This article points out that he was "the longtime chair of a congressional panel that the [9/11] commission called complacent in the run-up to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks."
You gotta serve somebody...
This New York Times Op/Ed points out that President Bush is using Goss's nomination as a means to sidestep the actual recommendations of the 9/11 commission.
What's the left hand doing?
Ray McGovern wrote an article about him on July 6th in which he said:
"As the election nears, it serves the administration quite well to keep the focus on intelligence shortcomings and to make it appear that the president was misled - on weapons of mass destruction, for example. And Porter Goss is precisely the right person to cooperate in this effort."
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It looks to me like President Bush is more interested in a pliable CIA than a competent one. It looks to me like the President is once again placing politics ahead of national security.
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