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...been up to him, Porter Goss never would have left the CIA. He was a typical spy during the cold war, one of the Ivy Leaguers the CIA prized, a Yale scholar of ancient Greek who roamed Western Europe, Mexico and the Dominican Republic during the 1960s recruiting foreign agents and collecting intelligence on the Soviets. Goss, 65, once told TIME that he had hoped to spend a career at the CIA, but a serious staph infection in 1970 forced him to quit fieldwork, and he left the agency for a new life in Florida that eventually...
...Goss's chances of being confirmed in the job are much greater than they were when the White House first floated his name six weeks ago. Then Democrats publicly complained that the Republican Congressman was too partisan for the position, left open by the July resignation of George Tenet. But the Bush Administration was moved to fill the post after recent polls showed Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry narrowing the gap with Bush on the question of whom voters trust more to fight terrorism. That and warnings of a possible new alQaeda attack in the U.S. made it politically dicey...
...couldn't get a job with the CIA today. I am not qualified." PORTER GOSS, U.S. Congressman and ex-CIA operative, in an outtake from Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, released after President Bush's nomination of Goss as the agency's director...
...Meanwhile, an intelligence heavyweight last week entered the fray with a new reform proposal that is already gathering high-level attention. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss - a former CIA clandestine services officer and leading contender for CIA director if President Bush is re-elected - quietly introduced a bill that would significantly expand the CIA director's executive and management authority over the whole intelligence community, a Goss spokesman confirmed to TIME. While the Director of Central Intelligence has responsibility for all intelligence gathering, more than 80 percent of the spy budget is outside the CIA's control, much...
...Tenet will be replaced by his deputy, John McLaughlin, but if President Bush is to pick a new Director of Central Intelligence from outside the Agency in the coming months, a leading contender may be Florida Republican congressman Porter Goss. His credentials include service as a CIA operative and as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, where he has helped shield the Bush administration from harsh criticism over Iraq and al-Qaeda. And he has a longstanding friendship with Senator Bob Graham, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee which would have to endorse the nomination. But whether...