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August 11, 2004

Who is Porter Goss?

Billmon:

By now you've probably heard the news that President Bush has nominated House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss to be his new CIA director.

Goss - last seen in Farenheit 9/11 giving out the number to an entirely ficticious civil liberties complaint hotline - is a former CIA operative turned Florida hack congressman who has made himself useful to the administration in ways both large and small, not least by savaging the reputation of the agency he once worked for and now hopes to lead.

In other words, picking Porter Goss to be CIA director is roughly the same as nominating Dick Cheney's little finger

Posted by Norwood at August 11, 2004 07:09 AM
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