Senate Mulls Whether Goss Should Head CIA
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Even as Congress revamps the nation's intelligence network, lawmakers appear intent on getting a new CIA chief in office before they adjourn next month for the November election.
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The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee questioned on Tuesday whether President Bush's choice to head the CIA was too partisan to be able to restore credibility to U.S. intelligence services.
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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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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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CIA Director Porter J. Goss is moving ahead with a shake-up at the agency, aimed at changing an outdated and risk-averse spying bureaucracy, according to US intelligence officials.
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The Senate Wednesday confirmed Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., as the next CIA director on a 77-17 vote. Forty-nine Republicans joined 28 Democrats in voting &quot;yes&quot; to confirm Goss.
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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 Senate confirmed Porter Goss as  the new CIA director on Wednesday amid a clamor for  intelligence reform, constant terrorism threats and a  persistent insurgency in Iraq.
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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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WASHINGTON-- US Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., member of the Senate Select Committee on intelligence, delivered a statement to the Senate regarding the nomination of Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fl.
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In an Oval Office ceremony, Porter Goss was sworn in Friday to head the CIA and lead an intelligence community which has faced intense criticism for failures and faulty information prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the Iraq war.
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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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It has now become apparent why Porter Goss, a politician, was named to head the CIA in an administration that already has been accused of politicizing intelligence during the Iraq war: to settle old scores.
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The US Senate confirmed Representative Porter Goss, who led efforts in Congress to reform intelligence-gathering, as head of the Central Intelligence Agency for which Goss once worked as a spy.
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Half of intelligence work is gathering facts. The other half is analysis. Turmoil at the CIA is a fact. Whether new Director Porter Goss is fixing the agency or breaking it is open to analysis.
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Porter Goss was sworn in Friday to head the CIA and lead an intelligence community that has faced intense criticism for faulty information &#151; and failing to share good information it did gather &#151; before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the war in Iraq.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (15/11/04) - The new head of the CIA and former Republican chairman of the US House Intelligence Committee, Porter Goss, has begun a major shakeup of the main US foreign intelligence service, offending some critics, including many in