Goss Gets Senate Panel's OK for CIA Post
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WASHINGTON - A Senate panel on Tuesday approved the nomination of Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., to head the CIA, overcoming Democrats' objections that Goss was too political for the job...
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The Florida representative and former House Intelligence Committee chairman will take over from George Tenet. Mr Goss was a spy for more than 10 years before entering Congress.
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The US Senate Wednesday approved Rep. Porter Goss as the new head of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Florida Republican received easy approval 77-17, despite complaints from Democrats on the Senate Intelligence
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Porter Goss is confirmed by the US Senate as the new CIA chief, despite opposition by some Democrats.
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The Senate on Wednesday confirmed US Rep. Porter Goss as the nation&#39;s new CIA director, a daunting role that places the Florida Republican in the middle
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Washington - Former operative and congressman Porter Goss was sworn in Friday as the new director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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The Senate Intelligence Committee voted 12-4 on Tuesday to approve the nomination of Republican Florida congressman Porter Goss to become the new CIA director, paving the way for full Senate confirmation.
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The Senate confirmed Porter Goss as  the new CIA director on Wednesday amid growing momentum for  intelligence reform, constant terrorism threats and a  persistent insurgency in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON - Officials reacted warily to a proposal by key Republican senators to transfer the nation's major intelligence gathering from the CIA and the Pentagon to control by a new director.    The warmest response, in fact, came from the camp of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry...
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Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.), the White House nominee for CIA director, said that CIA analysts deserve a hotline to his office to ensure that there is no undue political pressure on their work.
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The Republican-led Senate was poised to approve President Bush&#39;s choice to head the CIA, Rep. Porter Goss, over protests from some Democrats who say he has too many Republican ties for a job that requires independence.
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Porter Goss was sworn in as the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) at the White House on Friday to succeed George Tenet who resigned in July.
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U.S. Senate confirmation hearings  for President Bush's nominee for CIA director, Republican Rep.  Porter Goss, will begin Sept. 8, the chairman of the Senate  intelligence committee said on Sunday.
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The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has unanimously backed the nomination of retired vice admiral Michael McConnell as Director of National Intelligence.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush's nominee to be CIA director, Rep. Porter Goss, told critics who say he's too partisan for the job that he understands the importance of independent, objective intelligence, despite his nearly 16 years as a Republican partisan in Congress...
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Rep. Porter Goss, who until recently  led the House of Representatives' oversight of U.S.  intelligence agencies, will be on the opposite side of the  questioning on Tuesday as Senate colleagues judge his  suitability to head the CIA.
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Sept. 11 commission members thought it would be too difficult to break up the CIA and rearrange the Pentagon's spy agencies under a single national intelligence director, as is being proposed in the Senate, the commission's vice chairman says.