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	Porter J. Goss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Goss was a co-sponsor of the USA PATRIOT Act and was a co-chair of the Joint 9/11 Intelligence Inquiry.
		Goss was born in 1938 in Waterbury, Connecticut.
		Goss made the point with Negroponte that pursuing the changes Negroponte desired, in the manner Negroponte was insisting upon, contradicted the intent of the Intelligence Reform legislation, which was to add to the capabilities of the existing agencies in the intelligence community, not to detract and diminish those existing capabilities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Porter_Goss (3528 words)

	CNN.com - Goss: CIA resignation 'one of those mysteries' - May 6, 2006
		Goss and other senior intelligence officials have recently been interviewed by the president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which is looking into concerns that change was happening too slowly at the CIA.
		Goss said he would remain at the helm of the CIA for the "next few weeks" to oversee the transition to a new director.
		Goss, 67, a former CIA officer and Republican congressman from Florida, was tapped by Bush in June 2004 to come in and shake up the agency at a time when its performance was under intense scrutiny due to intelligence failures prior to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the invasion of Iraq.
	www.cnn.com /2006/POLITICS/05/06/goss.resignation/index.html (938 words)

	CNN.com - Bush nominates Goss to head CIA - Aug 11, 2004
		And some questioned whether Goss was too close to the CIA to shake things up at the agency, which was the focus of some critical comments in a recent report by the independent 9/11 commission.
		Goss has said that he supports one of the recommendations -- the creation of a national intelligence director position -- but in hearings last week, he urged caution in considering legislation on the issue.
		Goss represents a district in southwest Florida and is not running for re-election in the fall.
	www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/10/cia.goss/index.html (1052 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Profile: Porter Goss
		Porter Goss has resigned as CIA chief after less than two years in the role.
		There has been speculation that Mr Goss was not happy with the reduced access to the president he was afforded after the appointment of Mr Negroponte to oversee the work of all the intelligence agencies.
		However, critics of Mr Goss said he was under the spell of Vice-President Dick Cheney and that his presence on the joint 9/11 inquiry gave the administration a deal of protection.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3552180.stm (497 words)

	cbs2.com - Sources: CIA Director Forced Out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Goss was miffed at being passed over for the top intelligence job when it was created last year.
		Goss, a former CIA operative brought in 18 months ago to reform the agency, was disliked intensely.
		Goss is a former congressman from Florida, head of the House Intelligence Committee and CIA agent.
	cbs2.com /topstories/topstories_story_125131522.html (992 words)

	Porter J. Goss
		In October 2005, CIA Director Porter Goss will announce that he is not going to release the report, and also will not convene an accountability board to hold anyone responsible.(see October 10, 2005).
		Porter Goss becomes the new CIA Director, replacing George Tenet (John McLaughlin served as interim director for a few months after Tenet’s sudden resignation (see June 3, 2004)).
		Goss is replaced by Gen. Michael Hayden, the director of the NSA during 9/11.
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=porter_j._goss (2216 words)

	Cheney Cat's Paw, Porter Goss, as CIA Director? - A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution
		Goss would almost certainly follow lame-duck director George Tenet's practice of reading to the president in the morning and become an integral part of the "White House team." The team-membership phenomenon is particularly disquieting.
		Republican party loyalist first and foremost, Goss chose to give an entirely new meaning to "oversight." Even when it became clear that the "mushroom cloud" reporting was based mostly on a forgery, he just sat back and watched it all happen.
		As for Porter Goss, he was happy to let the Senate intelligence committee take the lead in investigating intelligence performance on key issues like weapons of mass destruction and, before he decided to promote his candidacy for director, he generally chose to keep his committee's head (and his own) down.
	www.buzzflash.com /contributors/04/07/con04286.html (2044 words)

	Confirmation Hearing of Porter J. Goss to be Director of Central Intelligence
		The challenge that Porter Goss, on a much magnified scale, will face as the Director of Central Intelligence is very analogous to the challenge that he faced 20 years ago in restoring integrity to his local community and completing a very complex project.
		GOSS: Senator, I certainly do not believe that the Senate is a circus or this Oversight Committee is. The comment that I made to the reporter over the media frenzy that was going on over the sensationalism of the pictures at the time was very simple.
		GOSS: I think that is the principal driving factor for most of the energies that we see that are now being engaged at all levels and in all branches of government in Washington to deal with the network problem.
	www.fas.org /irp/congress/2004_hr/091404goss.html (20019 words)

	CIA Director Goss resigns - Politics - MSNBC.com
		When Bush nominated Goss in August 2004, in the midst of the president’s re-election campaign, he said he would rely on the advice of the CIA officer-turned-politician on the sensitive issue of intelligence reform.
		Goss, a former congressman from Florida, head of the House Intelligence Committee and CIA agent, had been at the helm of the agency only since September 2004.
		Among those Goss pushed out during his tenure were the deputy director of intelligence, the chief of the clandestine service, two deputy chiefs of the clandestine service, the chief of the directorate of intelligence, the director of the counterterrorism center and the comptroller, according to NBC News.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/12646394 (681 words)

	TPMmuckraker: Porter Goss Archives
		"Porter asked him to step down because of his concerns that the allegations against Foggo had become a distraction for the employees and had the potential to damage the agency's reputation," an intelligence official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
		When Goss rose to CIA director, he tapped Bassett for "a second stint at the agency as a consultant in the directorate of operations." Brent Wilkes did indeed have some friends there.
		Actually, make that a double-yowzah: Remember that Goss is the one who plucked one of Wilkes' old San Diego friends, the unusual and colorful Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, out of CIA middle-management obscurity to be his #3 at the agency.
	www.tpmmuckraker.com /archives/cats/porter_goss (4684 words)

	USATODAY.com - Porter Goss sworn in as new CIA chief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Porter Goss sworn in as new CIA chief
		WASHINGTON (AP) — Porter Goss was sworn in Friday to head the CIA and lead an intelligence community that has faced intense criticism for faulty information — and failing to share good information it did gather — before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the war in Iraq.
		Goss, 65, has said his priorities will be improving the agency's network of people able to recruit spies and gain information — so-called human intelligence versus high-tech information gleaned by satellites.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2004-09-24-goss-cia_x.htm (566 words)

	Whiskey Bar: The Night Porter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Goss acquiesced when the White House and CIA refused to allow the joint committee to report out any information on what President Bush had been told before 9/11, ostensibly because it was "classified"...
		Goss was selected by the Bush-Cheney campaign to critique a June 2 national security speech by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.).
		Maybe the Dems have decided that giving Goss a free pass and a quick, relatively painless confirmation is the best way to keep the White House and the Senate GOP from using his confirmation hearings as yet another public forum for shifting the blame for the Iraq fiasco to the CIA.
	billmon.org /archives/001630.html (1359 words)

	Porter J. Goss - SourceWatch
		Goss was reported to have participated in partisan instigation of the de-classification testimony that former White House terrorism adviser Richard A. Clarke gave in 2002.
		Goss has been on the radar of the International Citizens' Inquiry into 9/11 since September 11, 2001, and "If the 9-11 Commission is really looking for a smoking gun, it should look no further than at Lieutenant-General Mahmoud Ahmad, the director of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) at the time.
		Goss, "a native of Waterbury, Connecticut," was an honors graduate from Yale University in 1960.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Porter_J._Goss (3089 words)

	Biography: Porter Goss
		Goss did not seem concerned that the leak was an act of political retaliation against the agent's spouse.
		Porter Goss was forced to resign as Director of the CIA in May, 2006.
		Goss' final accomplishment as CIA director -- such as it was -- was forcing out of her job a highly respected veteran intelligence officer, Mary McCarthy, for the purported leaking of classified information about secret CIA prisons abroad.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKgoss.htm (5929 words)

	CIA Director Porter Goss resigns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		CIA Director Porter Goss, a former congressman from Florida, resigned abruptly today.
		Goss, a former CIA agent, cut short his eighth House term in September 2004 to become head of the agency.
		Goss has been the CIA's only director since Congress restructured the nation's intelligence community in 2004, and the agency has been troubled by internal strife ever since.
	www.thehill.com /thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/050406/goss.html (209 words)

	Democrats soften stance on Goss's CIA nomination=The Hill.com= (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		“Porter Goss will need to answer tough questions about his record and his position on reform, including questions on the independence of the leader of the intelligence community,” he said.
		Democrats for the most part think Goss is too partisan for the job but they are fearful of blocking his nomination and suffering the same political price they did in 2002 for filibustering legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security.
		Goss outraged congressional Democrats in June when during a debate on the House floor he displayed a placard criticizing Kerry for favoring cuts to the intelligence budget in the past.
	www.thehill.com /news/081004/goss.aspx (801 words)

	Richard Coffman: Goss Revisited - Page 1
		Goss, a former CIA Operations officer and long-time member of the intelligence oversight committee must have been familiar with the grief suffered by his predecessors, especially Turner, John Deutch and even to some extent, George Tenet, when they by-passed accomplished and experienced intelligence officers and brought close aides into senior CIA positions.
		Goss’ assistants had already rubbed nerves raw in CIA last Summer when they drafted a House Intelligence Committee report so harshly critical of CIA, particularly the clandestine Directorate of Operations, that then DCI Tenet complained in a public letter.
		The aide Goss appointed as Executive Director, or day-to-day manager of the Agency immediately ran into trouble when his past resignation from CIA for petty theft surfaced.
	www.military.com /Opinions/0,,Coffman_111504-P1,00.html (719 words)

	FOXNews.com - CIA Chief Porter Goss Resigns - Politics \| Republican Party \| Democratic Party \| Political Spectrum
		Goss tendered his resignation as the spy agency is trying to recover from a public thrashing of its intelligence failures leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and apparent faulty information that formed part of the U.S. rationale for invading Iraq.
		Goss said in his statement that he will work to "ensure a smooth and professional transition." "During the time of transition, I am fully confident that the men and women of CIA will be solely focused on their critical mission," he added.
		Goss said in his Friday statement that he "fully recognized and embraced the challenge of leading this agency through historic change, not just for the CIA, but the entire intelligence community" when he took over the agency.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,194419,00.html (1766 words)

	White House Nominee to Head the CIA
		Porter Goss, a Florida Republican and former CIA operative, is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
		In fact, on the morning of September 11, Porter Goss was hosting a breakfast meeting on Capitol Hill in honor of General Ahmad, the alleged "money-man" (to use the FBI's expression) behind the 9/11 hijackers.
		Porter Goss, R-Sanibel, Sen. Bob Graham and other members of the House Intelligence Committee were talking about terrorism issues with the Pakistani official when a member of Goss' staff handed a note to Goss, who handed it to Graham.
	www.globalresearch.ca /articles/CHO407A.html (3394 words)

	Porter Goss? NO WAY! - A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
		On Tuesday, President George Bush nominated Porter Goss, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee to head the Central Intelligence Agency.
		Would Porter Goss swear to commit full CIA resources for the purpose of prosecuting the person(s) responsible for leaking the fact that Valerie Plame was a CIA undercover agent to the press?
		Goss will be such an "asset" as chief of the CIA, then how does he explain the fact that as chairmen House Intelligence committee he was hosted a breakfast meeting on Capitol Hill on the morning of September 11, 2001 with Pakistan's Chief Spy General Mahmoud Ahmad, the alleged "money-man" behind the 9-11 hijackers?
	www.buzzflash.com /contributors/04/08/con04330.html (459 words)

	Eyeballing Porter Goss
		Goss was sworn in at the White House and later addressed employees at the agency's headquarters in Virginia.
		Porter J. Goss was joined by his wife, Mariel, and President Bush as he was sworn in as director of central intelligence by Andrew H. Card Jr.
		In 1983, Goss was appointed to the Lee County Board of Commissioners.
	cryptome.sabotage.org /goss-eyeball.htm (439 words)

	ABC News: CIA Director Says Agency Working to Infiltrate Terrorist Strongholds
		Porter Goss was named the director of the CIA a little more than a year ago.
		Goss said that the agency was "the gold standard by any measure" in terms of human intelligence.
		Goss also would not address recent reports that the CIA runs secret prisons in Europe for detaining and interrogating detainees.
	abcnews.go.com /GMA/story?id=1355192 (511 words)

	Porter Goss to be named new CIA Director (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Porter was at the center of events in the Congressional investigation surrounding the September 11th terror attacks, spearheading the investigation on possible intelligence-gathering failures prior to the attacks.
		Porter began his public service career when he was elected to the first Sanibel City Council in 1974 and named mayor by his fellow council members.
		Porter Goss came from the CIA that was mainly focused on threats related to the Cold War.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1188543/posts (2068 words)

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