Goss is a gift to Democrats.

[wurzel]

The one thing Republicans don't want to discuss is the way they have politicized the CIA. Now they have nominated in a very political manner a very political nominee. The hearings should give the Democrats a field day in going over the CIA during the last three years. And there in nothing the Republicans can now do about it. Bush has opened the door. But will the Dems take the opportunity?

[anarchy1999]

1. Who was Goss having breakfast with on the morning of 9/11?

Anyone here remember? I don't have the link but I know it is damming. Wasn't it that Pakistan ISI person or diplomat that was shortly thereafter removed?

Oh yes, wasn't it the guy rumored to have sent $100,000 to Atta. We all know who "Atta is", right?

[rednek_Liberal]

2. Isn't that the nickname Shrub gave to Chalabi..Attaboy?

[scarletwoman]

3. You mean the guy who wired $$$ to Atta?

Senator Bob Graham of Florida was at that meeting also, btw. Anyway, yes, it was an ISI guy, who was quickly fired shortly thereafter. (Sorry, can't think of the name right now either, but I'm sure I know who you mean)

Conveniently, our US media decided to clam up about this particular story shortly after its initial appearence.

sw

[wurzel]

4. Well now the Dems have a chance to revisit this story.. n/t

Not that I have a clue what it is.

[Taylor Mason Powell]

5. Here you go...

From the 9/11 timeline at cooperativeresearch.org:


August 28-30, 2001 Complete 911 Timeline

Senator Bob Graham (D), Representative Porter Goss (R) and Senator John Kyl (R) travel to Pakistan and meet with President Musharraf. They reportedly discuss various security issues, including the possible extradition of bin Laden. They also meet with Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan. Zaeef apparently tells them that the Taliban want to solve the issue of bin Laden through negotiations with the US. Pakistan says it wants to stay out of the bin Laden issue. All three are meeting with ISI Director Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed in Washington at the time of the 9/11 attacks (see September 11, 2001 (H)). Mahmood gave $100,000 to hijacker Mohamed Atta (see October 7, 2001).

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/searchResults.jsp?searchtext=%22Porter+Goss%22&events=on&entities=on&articles=on&topics=on&timelines=on&projects=on&titles=on&descriptions=on&dosearch=on&search=+Go+

[scarletwoman]

7. Thanks! That's precisely the reference.

That is just one of many odd elements of the 9/11 record. I have always found it very disturbing.

On PBS NewsHour tonight, Ray McGovern of "Retired Intelligence Professionals for Sanity" made an excellent and (imho) effective argument against the appointment of Goss -- largely based on solid proof of his obvious partisanship.

Unfortunately, I think this ISI meeting is too obscure a story to have much of an effect. Better to take McGovern's tack of exposing the danger of further politicizing US intellence work, imho.

sw

[midwayer]

6. Pakistan's Chief Spy General Mahmoud Ahmad

http://www.prisonplanet.com/new_revelations_on_911.htm

On the morning of September 11, Pakistan's Chief Spy General Mahmoud Ahmad, the alleged "money-man" behind the 9-11 hijackers, was at a breakfast meeting on Capitol Hill hosted by Senator Bob Graham and Rep. Porter Goss, the chairmen of the Senate and House Intelligence committees.


Schedule of Pakistan's Chief of Military Intelligence Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad, Washington, 4-13 September 2001



Summer 2001: ISI Chief Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad transfers $100,000 to 9-11 Ringleader Mohamed Atta.

4 September: Ahmad arrives in the US on an official visit.

4-9 September: He meets his US counterparts including CIA Head George Tenet.

9 September: Assassination of General Massood, leader of the Northern Alliance. Official statement by Northern Alliance points to involvement of the ISI-Osama-Taliban axis.

11 September: Terrorist Attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon. At the time of the attacks, Lt General Ahmad was at a breakfast meeting at the Capitol with the chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees Sen Bob Graham and Rep Porter Goss. Also present at the meeting were Sen. John Kyl and the Pakistani ambassador to the U.S., Maleeha Lodhi.

12-13 September: Meetings between Lt. General Ahmad and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. Agreement on Pakistan's collaboration negotiated between Ahmad and Armitage. Meeting between General Ahmad and Secretary of State Colin Powell

13 September: Ahmad meets Senator Joseph Biden, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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July 19 2004-Venice,FL.
by Daniel Hopsicker

Mohamed Atta’s ability to roam at will across America—despite having his name on the CIA’s terrorist watch list—was not due to official incompetence or bureaucratic snafu, but to Atta’s status as a good earner, in a lucrative drug trafficking operation which linked Osama bin Laden’sthugs and drug lieutenants to their equally-thuggish American counterparts.

http://www.madcowprod.com/mc6312004.html

[starroute]

10. And speaking of Venice, FL

There's another ongoing thread which says Venice is in Porter Goss's district.

Sometimes the coincidences just get to be too much. :eyes:

[bluedog]

8. HR3179 *PATRIOT ACT II SPONSORED BY: *Porter Goss (R) Fla*

I got this off yahoo board..is this true.........


HR3179 *PATRIOT ACT II

SPONSORED BY: *Porter Goss (R) Fla

He co sponsored *Patriot Act II that is a "peace meal add on program" to add new features -

to the original Patriot Act bill by an assortment of gop leaders slipping in new features unnoticed too individual other bill's that have nothing to do with the Patriot Act or "war on terror" and are features allowing more powers for black booted thug's who answer to none.

[bluedog]

9. yea he did

oh..........hes a sly one isn't he?.........watch him.he'll bend over backwards to help bushy boy invade other countries...I don't trust him.he's got a rather shady past.