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Little doubt remains that Florida Republican Rep. Porter Goss (search) has the votes in the Senate to be confirmed as the new director of the CIA, but three Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee held Goss' feet to the fire Tuesday, questioning his past partisanship...
Rockefeller was joined by Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in pressing Goss to explain how he plans to separate his past life as a congressman from a new role as CIA director. Goss would be only the second congressman, behind George H.W. Bush, to head the spy agency. The three asked if Goss planned to clear up misstatements by Bush administration policy-makers about mistaken intelligence. Democrats have repeatedly said officials' statements on prewar intelligence on Iraq turned out to be wrong, including Vice President Cheney's statement that a meeting between Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta (search) and Iraqi intelligence in Prague was "pretty well confirmed." |