Porter Goss is a purely political appointment. He's a Cheny bootlicker of the absolute worst stripe and has publically pushed for *more* political controll over the intel services as opposed to less. He will defacto, and possibly dejure report directly to Cheney and Rove as opposed to acting outside of their influence and will drive intel to fit politics.
I can't imagine the Democrats in congress will let it happen, though. Probably just a fient by Bush to soften them up for whoever the real candidate is. There's been talk of him Replacing Tenet for months now, but no one took it too seriously.
Gos voted for the anti flag burning amanedment, voted to ban gay adoption, is a "Contract with America" signatore, voted for mandatory prayer in schools, etc etc.
He's John Ashcroft, but without the messiah complex.
They need to go inside the intel community to fill this post with a non partisan administrator who has some real world expertise.
Colin Powell or someone simmilarly moderate with a better background would make more sense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_J._Goss
Edited, Tue Aug 10 11:24:44 2004 by Smasharoo
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