Bush's new CIA chief."I couldn't get a job with CIA today," commented Congressman Porter Goss (R-Fla.) in a videotaped interview with leftist film producer Michael Moore last March. "I am not qualified. I don't have the language skills. I don't have the cultural background probably. And I certainly don't have the technical skills." More recently, President Bush nominated Congressman Goss--who did serve 10 years in the CIA's clandestine service prior to being elected to Congress--to head the Agency. This choice was made despite the fact that Rep. Goss voted to cut the Agency's human intelligence budget by 20 percent in 1995. This makes for an interesting counterpoint to the Bush administration's assault on Senator John Kerry for casting nearly identical votes to reduce the CIA's budget. The Senate confirmed Rep. Goss as the new CIA director on September 23. Is there an unwritten rule that this post, one of the most powerful offices on the planet, must be held by a member of the Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an influential and independent, nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921 and based at 58 East 68th Street (corner Park Avenue) in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. ? Apparently so. Porter Goss is the 16th Director of the CIA since 1950. With the exception of Adm. William F. Raborn, Jr. (April 1965-June 1966), all have been members of the CFR, America's unelected, one-world Establishment. Those CFR-CIA directors--in the order which they served--are: Walter Bedell Smith General Walter Bedell "Beetle" Smith GBE KCB (October 5, 1895 – August 9, 1961) was Dwight D. Eisenhower's Chief of Staff during Eisenhower's tenure at SHAEF and Director of the CIA from 1950 to 1953. He also served as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1949. , Allen W. Dulles, John A. McCone, Richard M. Helms, James R. Schlesinger James Rodney Schlesinger (born February 15, 1929) was United States Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He became America's first Secretary of Energy under Jimmy Carter. , William E. Colby, George H. W. Bush  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. , Stansfield Turner, William J. Casey, William H. Webster, Robert M. Gates, R. James Woolsey, John M. Deutch
John Mark Deutch (born July 27, 1938) is an American chemist and civil servant. He was the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1994 to 1995 and Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from May 10, 1995 until , George J. Tenet, and Porter J. Goss  This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one or [ improve this article] yourself. See the talk page for details. . |
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