Reply #23: CIA chief nominee faces past statements before panel

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By WES ALLISON, Times Staff Writer
Published September 15, 2004

CIA chief nominee faces past statements before panel
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/09/15/Worldandnation/CIA_chief_nominee_fac.shtml

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WASHINGTON - Florida Rep. Porter Goss had some explaining to do. No, he acknowledged, it was hardly his finest moment when he said he needed a "a blue dress and some DNA" - a reference to former President Clinton's sex scandal - before he would investigate the outing of a CIA agent by someone in the Bush administration.

And as the U.S. senators listened intently, Goss, R-Sanibel, insisted he was only kidding when he called the Senate investigation into prison abuses in Iraq "a circus."

And he no longer supports his own proposal to allow the CIA to arrest U.S. citizens on American soil.

On the opening day of hearings on Goss' nomination as head of the Central Intelligence Agency, Senate Democrats used his past statements and proposals to question his political independence and his commitment to reforming the intelligence system.
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