Rep. Goss hiding behind doors!

[Pale_Rider]

This tibit from Berry's World blog is making me even feel mo' safer than I ever had been! Thank you Bush for making Rep Goss our front line man against the terra'rists! Not!

http://berrysworld.blogspot.com/archives/2004_08_08_berrysworld_archive.html#109214894529296799


HE'LL STAND UP TO TERRORISTS, RIGHT?

President Bush has nominated U.S. Rep. Porter Goss to lead the CIA, which must strike fear in the hearts of terrorists everywhere. Unless, of course, you happen to remember this passage from Gail Sheehy's story about the four moms who tried to get info about the 9-11 attacks:

The four moms—Kristen Breitweiser, Patty Casazza, Mindy Kleinberg and Lorie van Auken—use tactics more like those of a leaderless cell. They have learned how to deposit their assorted seven children with select grandmothers before dawn and rocket down the Garden State Parkway to Washington. They have become experts at changing out of pedal-pushers and into proper pantsuits while their S.U.V. is stopped in traffic, so they can hit the Capitol rotunda running. They have talked strategy with Senator John McCain and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle. They once caught Congressman Porter Goss hiding behind his office door to avoid them. (Bold: mine.)

A proud day for the CIA, indeed.

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Maybe they should have worn blue dresses

I hear he has a thing for blue dresses.

Edit to add reference:


Goss, who was a CIA agent himself from the early 1960s to 1971, said he takes such leaks (Plame) seriously, but he distinguished between a willful violation of federal law and an inadvertent disclosure.

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=...

[Pale_Rider]

2. He also has a thing for non-existent 800 numbers ..

http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/articles/moore-pol.html

WASHINGTON — Michael Moore's box-office smash "Fahrenheit 9/11" is keeping the phones ringing in the Capitol Hill office of Rep. Porter Goss.

Moviegoers have been calling Goss' office every day since the film's debut last week, but not for a reason that makes the congressman happy.

In the film, Goss, a Republican from Florida, is shown discussing the Patriot Act. He mentions that Americans with concerns about the U.S. intelligence network can call a toll-free 800 number.

Moore informs viewers there is no such number and instead displays the phone number to Goss' office in the Cannon House Office Building across the street from the U.S. Capitol.

"We're getting hundreds of calls," said spokeswoman Julie Almacy.

The brief segment is intended to make Goss, 65, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, look uninformed at best and misleading at worst.

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3. I think that was shown to be a Moore "deception".

Correct me if I'm wrong. I think the number does in fact exist.

[Pale_Rider]

5. There is some debate on whether ...

... the 800 number Goss was referring to was to the Homeland Security Commission or to his office.

[NightOwwl]

6. Ohmygosh!

I didn't put two and two together. I totally spaced...didn't realize Goss was the guy in F9/11 who gave the fake number.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

4. Their dead husbands are proud of them

wherever they are now. I know I would be. and so.... You go girls!