GOP Foot,Meet GOP Mouth!

George W. Doesn't Read has just named Porter Goss to head the New & Improved CIA, which should have left Congressional Democrats in a bind: accept Goss and look weak; or fight Goss and look unpatriotic and weak.

Fortunately, Congressional Democrats can safely use the words of George W., Dick Pacemaker and Porter Goss, himself, to burst the GOP's Hurry-Up-And-Give-Us- What-We-Want-Or-Our-Media-Will-Call-You-Weak rush to confirmation before the Nov. 2nd election.

Bush/Cheney Attack Their Own CIA Nominee

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12

Cheney Attacked Intelligence Proposal that Porter Goss Voted For, Helped Write.

Both the House and the Senate voted on bills that were essentially the same as the proposal the Administration is criticizing Senator Kerry for. The amendment passed the House with the support of Porter Goss - in fact, Goss was on the conference committee that wrote the final bill. The bill stripped the intelligence budget of its pet projects and pork, and shift our intelligence from the cold war to the threat of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The bill passed the Senate with a bipartisan voice vote. (9/29/1995: Proposed by Senator Coats for Senator Specter. Agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote; H.Rept. 104-427; HR1655; Became Public Law No: 104-93)

Washington Post: Republican Criticism on Kerry Intel Record is Wrong: The Washington Post wrote: "But Bush appears to be wrong when he said the proposed Kerry cut -- about 1 percent of the overall intelligence budget for those years -- would have 'gutted' intelligence." (Washington Post, 3/12/04)

GOP Congress Passed Deeper Cuts Than Kerry Was Advocating.

The Washington Post continued: "In fact, the Republican-led Congress that year approved legislation that resulted in $3.8 billion being cut over five years from the budget of the National Reconnaissance Office -- the same program Kerry said he was targeting." Kerry's proposal called for cutting intelligence funding by $1.5 billion over 5 years. (Washington Post, 3/12/04; Factcheck.org, 3/15/04)

Bush Administration Proposed Massive Intelligence Cuts Before and After 9-11.

In the early days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Bush White House cut by nearly two-thirds an emergency request for counterterrorism funds by the FBI. In a Sept. 10 submission to the Bush administration's budget office, Attorney General John Ashcroft refused to endorse an F.B.I. request for $58 million for 149 new counterterrorism field agents, 200 additional analysts and 54 additional translators. Ashcroft proposed cuts in 14 programs. (New York Times, 2/28/02) LINK

And then there's that whole Porter Goss telling Michael Moore that he (Goss) isn't qualified even to apply for a job with the CIA thing...

Filmmaker Moore Quotes Goss on Lack of CIA Credentials

Wed Aug 11, 2004

By David Morgan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Congressman Porter Goss, President Bush's nominee for CIA director, could be his own worst enemy when it comes to making the case that he deserves to lead the U.S. intelligence agency.

"I couldn't get a job with CIA today. I am not qualified," the Florida Republican told documentary-maker Michael Moore's production company during the filming of the anti-Bush movie "Fahrenheit 9/11."

A day after Bush picked Goss for the top U.S. spy job, Moore on Wednesday released an excerpt from a March 3 interview in which the 65-year-old former House of Representatives intelligence chief recounts his lack of qualifications for employment as a modern CIA staffer.

"I don't have the language skills. I, you know, my language skills were romance languages and stuff. We're looking for Arabists today. I don't have the cultural background probably," Goss is quoted in an interview transcript.

"And I certainly don't have the technical skills, uh, as my children remind me every day: 'Dad you got to get better on your computer.' Uh, so, the things that you need to have, I don't have." LINK

And what was Porter Goss doing on, say, September 11, 2001?

Sept. 11, 2001 - Gen. Mahmud of the ISI (see #16), friend of Mohammed Atta, is visiting Washington on behalf of the Taliban. He is meeting with the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Porter Goss. [Source: MSNBC, Oct. 7, 2001; The New York Times, Feb. 17, 2002]

And, of course, there's that whole MASS MURDERER & TRAITOR albatross Goss has hanging around his neck...

Prime Suspect of the Largest Mass Murder in U.S. Nominated to Head C.I.A.

Examining the history of Porter Goss makes me wonder “Just how many politicians are on the C.I.A. payroll? (How did he manage to accumulate $53 million on his salary?) Did Goss actually use his dark C.I.A. past or connections to win elections? How many people would knowingly vote for a C.I.A. operative who had a hand in dirty tricks in Haiti, Santo Domingo, and Western Europe, who first worked for Army Intelligence? Looking at his pro-Bush, pro-Cheney record and his advocacy in Haiti, South America[1] and his work towards increasing the budget/power of the C.I.A.- especially the elevation of the Director to a cabinet post to become an Intelligence Czar with control over a $40,000,000 budget, concerns me. He believes in “political assassinations,”[2] exemplified by Operation Phoenix which killed thousands in Vietnam, and the Death squads so pervasive amongst U.S. trained military juntas installed in Central and Latin America.

Nevermind his close relationship with the “Money Man” behind 9/11 (the term was coined by the F.B.I.), the Head of Pakistani Intelligence, Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad who had $100,000 wired to Mohamed Atta, alleged ringleader/pilot behind the September 11th attacks. Surely one must wonder about this relationship, and why the U.S. quietly urged the retirement of Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad when this information was revealed to the press. However, the official Inquiry and the official 9/11 Commission avoided asking any questions that might thoroughly incriminate them and the White House personally in the attacks. LINK

Pass the popcorn and let the confirmation hearings commence!