CIA Nominee Promises to Shed Partisanship
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WASHINGTON - President Bush's nominee to head the CIA promised Tuesday to shed his political past and provide precise, objective and independent intelligence to the president and Congress. But he also cautioned it may take longer than the past CIA director's estimate to hire and train all the operatives needed worldwide to combat terrorism and other threats...
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Hours after the two top clandestine service officers at the CIA resigned yesterday, Director Porter J. Goss asked employees to remain loyal to the agency and rebutted allegations that he had a partisan agenda.
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Chicago Tribune - Under sometimes sharp questioning from Democrats, Republican Rep. Porter Goss told a Senate committee Tuesday that his past partisan views and strong support for an intelligence agency that many consider deeply flawed will not stand in the way of needed reforms if he is confirmed as director of central intelligence.
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A Democratic senator warned CIA Director Porter Goss Thursday that his efforts to make major changes could have "a significant and negative effect on the agency."
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Both candidates have settled on foreign policy as their primary means of distinguishing themselves from each other.
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The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee warned fellow Democrats in the Senate on Sunday against trying to block the nomination of Rep. Porter Goss as CIA director, saying that would be picking the wrong fight in this election year.
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The Republican congressman chosen by  President Bush to head the CIA said on Tuesday his Democratic  Party critics were wrong to say he was too partisan to take the  job.
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President Bushâs nominee to be the second-ranking official at the Justice Department refused to say whether he considered the interrogation technique to be âtorture.â
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The director of the US National Security Agency is seen as a leading candidates to be second in command at the CIA, intelligence sources said on Tuesday.
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A Democratic senator warned CIA director Porter Goss yesterday that his efforts to make major changes could have &#39;&#39;a significant and negative effect on the agency.
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The presumptive GOP nominee knows he must prevent a civil war within the party to have any chance in the fall
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In effort to appease right wing, candidate vows to honor party values and touts conservative record.
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The Senate confirmed Porter Goss as  the new CIA director on Wednesday amid growing momentum for  intelligence reform, terrorism threats and a persistent  insurgency in Iraq.
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Senate Democrats are making no concerted effort to block the confirmation of Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) as the next CIA director, but thatâs not stopping them from attacking him publicly as too partisan and too mired in the status quo to do the job.
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President Bush warned defiant Republican senators yesterday that he will close down a CIA interrogation program that he credited with thwarting terrorist attacks if they pass a proposal regulating detention of enemy combatants, escalating a politically charged battle that has exposed divisions...
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush&#39;s nominee to be CIA director promised today to provide Congress and the president with independent, objective intelligence but said it may take longer than previously estimated to have all the needed undercover operatives in
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WASHINGTON - The breakup of the CIA proposed by the Republican chairman of the Senate intelligence committee could create &quot;chaos in the intelligence community&quot; as the nation seeks to prevent additional terrorist attacks, Sen.