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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...
BACK IN THE GAME: Porter Goss was a spy, but does he have the instincts to reform...
...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...
...more depressing truisms of the day: Young people hate old songs. They don?t get the smoothness, the optimism, the careful rhyming. Precision of lyric and emotion is so uncool it?s almost Republican. (Worse then Republican: most of them would rather listen to Cheney than to Cole Porter.) For them, the Great American Song Book might as well be in Esperanto - a language not worth knowing. Kids don?t think of a standard by Gershwin or Kern or Rodgers as a failed version of a new song. It just isn?t music to them...
Neither Clinton nor Porter would speculate as to the other’s motives in falsifying his account...