Bush CIA Pick Says He Is Not Too Biased for the Job

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican congressman chosen by President Bush to head the CIA said on Tuesday his Democratic Party critics were wrong to say he was too partisan to take the job.

Bush nominated Rep. Porter Goss of Florida to succeed former CIA Director George Tenet, who resigned in July just prior to the release of the Sept. 11 Commission report that found "deep institutional failings" in the U.S. intelligence agencies related to the 2001 attacks.

At a Senate nomination hearing just weeks away from the November election, Goss told his critics that he understood the difference between the role of director of central intelligence and that of a politician.

"I understand those distinctions and if confirmed commit myself to a nonpartisan approach to the job of DCI," he said in his opening statement.

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=6232732

[Cocoa]

1. good enough for me

[Jacobin]

2. Of course. He's "just biased enough"

Amazing

[TahitiNut]

12. GMTA Alert: My thoughts exactly.

I've never yet heard a reichbot (and he's one of the worst) acknowledge their appalling bias to any significant degree whatsoever. At the same time, they see it everywhere in the majority of other people. D'uh!?

[aquart]

3. That's what Ashcroft said.

So, did Goss say this while hooked up to a lie detector or are we supposed to take his word for it?

[mazzarro]

19. Damn! you beat me to it!

AshKKKroft said same thing. Look where we are with him at the helm in the Justice Department.

[napi21]

4. Isn't it possible that he could be a decent CIA Director?

I'm not trying to be an AH here. Just asking if we all should automaticaly denounce ANYBODY who gets suggested by Shrub. There bad Pubs & bad Dems. Think about it. Gore picked Lieberman for his VP! That was a bad move too!

I have heard several Dems say Goss has the right experience, and is an OK reasonable guy.

Do you all really know Goss is bad, or is it just because he was recommended by ShrubCo?

[Cocoa]

7. he's too partisan

my feeling is, anyone nominated by Bush is by definition the wrong person.

But putting that aside, Goss is too much a partisan republican. I recently saw a replay of Goss on the House floor holding up some anti-Kerry graphic. He was using a debate on intelligence as an attack on Kerry.

The position is way too important for someone that would play games like that, especially in the service of the worst president in our history.

[TahitiNut]

13. Of course he is. He's 100% voting with the regime. No exceptions.

He's voted the same as J.D. Hayworth, Duncan Hunter, and Tom Delay. There's absolutely no room to be more paritisan!!

[Khephra]

8. Do a google search with his name and the words "prison scandal"

New CIA director focuses on interrogations in war on terror

The Associated Press
September 03, 2004


WASHINGTON — Porter Goss, tapped as the next CIA 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, possibly next week.

During one interview in May, the eight-term House Republican from Florida said he couldn’t count the number of ongoing prison abuse investigations, but “we’ve got the circus in the Senate, which is always the likely place to look for the circus.”

“Even though I say that lightheartedly, I do honestly question whether or not they have balance over there on this issue,” said Goss, who has declined interviews since President Bush nominated him last month.

http://www.oudaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/09/03/4137da18bd4c5

[Just Me]

27. Ugh. Such statements are evidence of an "imbalanced" individual.

We definitely do not need anymore of those indifferent-types.

I suppose that he proclaims himself another "pro-life" advocate, as well.

[Hornito]

9. Do you realaize, that as co-chair of the intelligence committee,

he helped whitewash the events of 9/11, thereby helping Bush and his junta? You can't get any more biased than that. Of course, Joe LIEberman did the same thing .....bastard.

[Tommy_Douglas]

10. Bush can't do anything right...

Everything is to the extreme in the effort to keep this cabal in power. ALways the appearance of moderation and the actions of an extremist.

[Rose Siding]

11. Look here how he views Agency critics:

snip>
Goss and his staff declined to be interviewed in the lead-up to his hearings. Although recently Goss has stepped up criticism of the agency, in 2002 he told a Washington Post reporter he would not use the word "failure" to describe the intelligence lapses before Sept. 11. "I don't like to see the left-wingers splattering mud on an agency that's done some very fine work. It demoralizes people taking the risk," he said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16902-2004Sep12.html

He sees critics as partisan! Can there not even be a broad agreement that the attacks represented failure. He is absurdly partisan.

[leesa]

15. Research his history and then answer your own question

There have been many threads on Goss. His role will be to hide BushCos involvement in 9-11.

[mazzarro]

21. A bunch of democrats made similar statements as you in regards

AshKKKroft. Dems always want to keep believing that whatever shortcomings identified in these reThugs can be explained, forgiven and a second chance given. Only to find that we have been had again. I do not believe, for one moment, that Goss will be non-partisan especially if W* is somehow putback in the WH after Nov. 2. We will live to regret this man much as we are regretting AshKKKroft.

[truthisfreedom]

5. i love how these guys get to judge themselves, just like bush and everyone

associated with his corrupt administration. to a person, they all deem themselves unbiased, informed, and perfectly worthy... and none of them have ever made a mistake. nor could they.

[geek tragedy]

6. He's no more biased than Laura Bush--lay off!

Did they ask him what his opinion on the forgeries was?

[Zorra]

14. Funny, Goering didn't think he was too biased for the job either.

Of course, he realized that his organization, the Gestapo, was going to be a police/intelligence organization primarily responsible for the creation of a one-party totalitarian state.

Goss probably understands that a similar concept is in the works with regard to the CIA.

There is no partisanship once the US becomes a one-party state.

Did you know that Goss and Katherine Harris are great admirers of each other?

[DoYouEverWonder]

16. Goss says CIA leak not worthy of committee action

This is why Goss should not be allowed to head the CIA.

He doesn't seem to think it's a big deal, for the WH to out a deep cover CIA agent, just out of spit.


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Goss also said no one from the intelligence agencies has raised the issue with him since syndicated columnist Robert Novak identified the agent in a column July 14.

"I would say there's a much larger dose of partisan politics going on right now than there is worry about national security," said Goss, R-Sanibel. "But I would never take lightly a serious allegation backed up by evidence that there was a willful -- and I emphasize willful, inadvertent is something else -- willful disclosure, and I haven't seen any evidence."

Goss said he would act if he did have evidence of that sort.

"Somebody sends me a blue dress and some DNA, I'll have an investigation," Goss said.


http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2003310030460

[SoCalDem]

17. So he's a FLIP-FLOPPER????

Can say hateful biased things one minute, and then extend his hand and promise to "play nice" the next???

FLIP-FLOP-FLIP-FLOP-FLIP-FLOP-FLIP-FLOP-FLIP-FLOP

[Qutzupalotl]

18. He's too crooked for the job.

Ask him about meeting on 9/11 with Pakistani Gen. Mahmoud Ahmad, the guy who authorized the wiring of $100,000 to Mohammed Atta.

We cannot let this stand. This is as bad as nominating Kissinger to head the 9/11 commission.

[flordehinojos]

20. Ha! Isn't that a laugh?!

[Nimrod]

22. To be the CIA director...

...You have to be the best liar currently available. Sounds like they found the right man for the job.

[soaky]

23. doesn't mike moore

have (fairly recent) footage of goss saying he doesn't have experience to be CIA director?

[renegade000]

24. don't you think hes a bit...you know...

biased? in that regard ;)

[ReadTomPaine]

25. If he wants to prove his non-partisanship he can write an agreement...

... to resign at the request of Jay Rockefeller (ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee) within the first year or on the job if Jay doesn't think he's living up to his promise. Have him put his money where his mouth is. If Goss is going to get this nomination, he should be made to wear a bell like a cow to keep him from being an effective Bush tool.

RTP

[KamaAina]

26. ...so stop saying that!

Come to think of it, we're probably lucky Bush* didn't pick Bob Boudelang to head CIA! :-)

[leesa]

28. Oh No! Never too biased for the Bush Crime Family.