Reply #31: Article on Goss - if we want the Plame indictments to happen

[merh]

we have to stop his appointment to office. The grass root efforts that have been used on these threads need to be utlized to appeal to the dems on the nominating committees not to authorize Goss' approval.

This is more important than any issue right now. Goss must not be made the head of the CIA. If he is the Plame investigation and the prison scandals and our rights will be hindered and harmed.

This article appears in the August 20, 2004 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.

Senate Must Not Capitulate
To Blackmail on Goss Nomination
by Edward Spannaus

Were the Senate to go along with the Administration's provocative nomination of Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) for CIA Director, it would mark a cowardly capituation to the stonewalling of any investigation of the crimes of Vice President Dick Cheney and his cronies in the Bush Administration. The Administration's obstruction has been aided greatly by the Republican leadership of key Congressional oversight committees, and in this, no one has exceeded the role played by Porter Goss, as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Goss has blocked any investigation of three critical subject-areas clearly falling within his jurisdiction:

* The fabrication of intelligence on Iraq's weapons programs, under pressure from Cheney and other Administration officials, in order to justify the invasion of Iraq;

* The illegal disclosure by White House officials, of the identity of CIA covert operative Valerie Plame, in an effort to discredit her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, who had debunked the fable that Saddam Hussein was trying to buy uranium "yellowcake" ore from Niger; and

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http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3133goss_cia.html

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This article goes on to express the desire that the Dems not give in and agree to the nomination of Goss. It refers to several retired CIA agents that feel that Goss is the wrong man for the job.

"The reaction to Goss's nomination has been especially strong among a number of retired CIA officials. Retired Adm. Stansfield Turner, who was DCI in the late 1970s, called the nomination "a bad day for the CIA," and charged that Goss was chosen simply "to help George Bush win votes in Florida." "This is the worst appointment that's ever been made to the office of Director of Central Intelligence, because that's an office that needs to be kept above partisan politics," Turner said."