A few more choice quotes from Porter Goss

[G_j]

http://www.villagevoice.com/thebushbeat/

Food for Thought

In the search for intelligence life, Porter Goss is strictly from hunger

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Goss also said on October 9, 2002:

"Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and their radical ilk are at the epicenter of terrorist activity in the Middle East. Nobody doubts that. It is not debatable. President Bush, Prime Minister Blair and others have made convincing cases about the threats the despotic Iraqi regime poses to world peace and stability today—today as well as tomorrow."
And he added:

"Iraq has expanded its weapons of mass destruction capabilities against its pledge not to. It still has deadly chemical weapons hidden throughout the country, and it has tried to develop nuclear devices as well. It is certain that Iraq has ties to many Islamic terror groups in the region, including Al Qaeda. Evidence supports Iraq's involvement in the first and probably the second World Trade Center bombing."

So, let's see: Goss, a former CIA agent, ignored studying something that did happen—his breakfast with the bagman of a 9-11 hijacker—while strongly pushing for a war based on a "threat" to our security that didn't exist.

Sure, let's make him CIA director. What the hell. He's been an effective stonewaller and excuse-maker ever since 9-11.

"No smoking gun," he said in 2002, when the Goss-Graham report was released.

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[G_j]

1. ~kICk~

[G_j]

2. David Corn, Why did Goss go easy on the CIA's Iraq and 9/11 screw-ups?

A SOFT SCOLD FROM GOSS
David Corn, AlterNet

Why did Porter Goss, Bush's new CIA nominee, go easy on the
CIA's Iraq and 9/11 screw-ups?

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/19516/

After George W. Bush announced he was nominating Representative Porter Goss, the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee and a former CIA case officer, to head up the CIA, Democrats and others immediately (and inevitably) raised questions about Bush's selection. Is Goss too political and too close to Bush for this job? (In early June, the Bush campaign used Goss as a surrogate to whack Senator John Kerry on national security.) Goss was also criticized for being more of a cheerleader for the CIA than a watchdog, though he has in the past year criticized the CIA for failing its human intelligence mission and for screwing up intelligence gathering related to Iraq.

But here is perhaps the best reason Goss should not get the job: He failed to recognize or acknowledge that the CIA messed up bigtime in its analysis of the supposed threat posed by Saddam Hussein's regime.

Last September, Goss and Representative Jane Harman, the senior Democrat on the House intelligence committee, sent a letter to CIA chief George Tenet that excoriated the intelligence community's information-gathering activities regarding Iraq. The committee had reviewed 19 volumes of prewar intelligence and had held several behind-closed-doors hearings. "We believe," Goss and Harman wrote, "there were significant deficiencies with respect to the IC's intelligence collection activities concerning Iraq's WMD programs and ties to al-Qa'ida prior to the commencement of hostilities there."

The letter was harsh. It noted that the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq produced in October 2002 had concluded "Baghdad has chemical and biological weapons" and "in the view of most agencies, Baghdad is reconstituting its nuclear weapons programs." But Goss and Harman maintained "these judgments were based on too many uncertainties." The legislators pointed out that there had been "serious shortfalls" in intelligence collection on Iraq after 1998 and that there had been a "lack of specific intelligence on regime plans and intentions, WMD, and Iraq's support to terrorist groups." The intelligence community, they said, had failed to obtain enough information to develop a worthwhile assessment of the Iraq threat. The intelligence available on Iraq's supposed WMDs and its alleged ties to al Qaeda were, the two reported, was "fragmentary and sporadic."

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[Joanne98]

3. Somebody should start a research thread

this nomination is a really bad thing. i'm afraid the dems will cave.

[G_j]

4. IF

they could approve Negroponte or Ashcroft etc. they are capable of approving anyone!

[TeeYiYi]

7. Another attempt . . .

. . . to put a a fox in the hen house. Reminds me of when *shrub appointed Henry Kissinger to head up the 911 investigation ... the man has no shame. He's scandalous.

TYY:grr:

[G_j]

5. ~kICk~

[bluedog]

6. HR 3179....Patriot Act 2.,,,,(watch this man.........)

HR 3179, NOW CIA HEAD ?




HR3179 *PATRIOT ACT II

SPONSORED BY: *Porter Goss (R) Fla*

There is no doubt this is a very controversial appointment for the TOP SPY* job of the "company" by W.



He co sponsored *Patriot Act II that is a "peace meal add on program" to add new features - to the original Patriot Act bill by an assortment of gop leaders slipping in new features unnoticed too individual other bill's that have nothing to do with the Patriot Act or "war on terror" and are features allowing more powers for to those who answer to none.

[G_j]

8. yes, we have so much thank him for

Patriot II, an underhanded fascist power grab.