- He came from the right
stuffooze for the swamp, so he should be listened to? - An old bud of Dennis Hastert
APPARENTLY GOSS WAS EXHUMED IN ORDER TO ADD HIS NAME TO THE “DIRTY DOZEN”; THE CIA ‘BURIED’ POOR OLD PORTER JUST OVER 12 YEARS AGO
Even before Chuckie Schumer named THE PROCESS for us, Porter Goss had learned most of the ‘SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY’ the “Intelligence” folks can getcha !
Nothing much surprises anymore but in reading the names of the 12 “former intelligence chiefs” who signed the public letter protesting the persecution of former CIA Director James Brennan, I was mildly struck by the inclusion of another “former” CIA Director.
Now I’m guessing but if there are many folks who remember Mr. Goss, they too might be “mildly”, or, greatly struck by his apparent enthusiasm to be counted among Mr. Brennan’s defenders.
For those of you who may not remember him, Porter Goss was named in September, 2004 by G W Bush to head the CIA after the departure of George Tenet.
Goss was brought in to “rebuild” the CIA, to “shake things up” over at Langley following what some described as “a lot of intelligence failures” regarding 9/11 and the Iraqi WMD’s. Also, according to news reports at the time, there were many damaging leaks coming out of the CIA (remember “Mary McCarthy” and the WaPo story about “secret CIA prisons”?).
As a former CIA agent himself, Goss surely had a pretty good grip on the task that he faced. He undoubtedly knew there would be fierce opposition to an effort to restore effectiveness and respect for an agency which had pretty much lost both. Among other actions Goss undertook to ‘rebuild’ the agency, he got rid of the ‘bureaucratic ‘red tape’ that existed, tried to improve intelligence gathering and sharing with other agencies. He also initiated a number of probes to ferret out the leakers. It was thought by many that a lot of leaks were aimed at undermining Goss.
Democrat strategist, and later Fox News contributor and later former Fox News contributor, Bob Beckel was noting that, under Goss, there was a lot of “disarray” over at Langley. In perhaps one of his relatively sober moments, Bob was telling news organizations that, because Goss was such an “obvious Republican partisan”, his appointment as director caused “a lot of rancor, apparently causing some “veteran agents” to leave.’
At any rate, Mr. Goss lasted about 13 months, which would seem to indicate it takes about two months for each “way from Sunday” to finally take down a critic of our vaunted top Intelligence agency:
AND, ON THE SEVENTH DAY, THE ‘SPOOKS’ RESTED!
(Looks like Chuckie called it accurately.)
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To underscore a point, John Negroponte was the director of the then newly created National Intelligence Agency to whom Goss reported. It was well known around Washington that Negroponte “was not happy with Goss”.
Interestingly, there seemed to be no such tension between Obama’s NIA director, James Clapper and his CIA chief Brennan. And for Brennan, there were no leaks…and Sunday never came.
And, it’s all one big happy ‘family’…Democrats and Republicans Bush appointees and Obama-ites; Just one happy Establishment!
Free Speech For All! DLH
Referencing this information in an article in The Blaze
Twelve former intelligence chiefs signed and released a public letter protesting the decision by President Donald Trump to revoke the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan, who has been very critical of the president
“We feel compelled to respond in the wake of the ill-considered and unprecedented remarks and actions by the White House,” the letter said. “We know John to be an enormously talented, capable and patriotic individual who devoted his entire adult life to the service of this nation.”
“Insinuations and allegations of wrongdoing on the part of Brennan while in office are baseless,” it continued. “Since leaving government service, John has chosen to speak out sharply regarding what he sees as threats to our national security.”
“[W]e all agree that the president’s action regarding John Brennan and the threats of similar action against other former officials has nothing to do with who should and should not hold security clearance — and everything to do with an attempt to stifle free speech,” they added. . . .
The contention that Trump was shutting down free speech mirrored that of former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who said Wednesday that the decision violated Brennan’s First Amendment right of free speech. Clapper was also one of the signatories.
More on Porter Goss via Wikipedia
Education and early CIA career
Goss was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, the son of Virginia Holland (née Johnston) and Richard Wayne Goss, who was an executive of the Scovill Manufacturing Company (a corporation controlled by the Goss family).[2][3][4][5] He attended Camp Timanous in Raymond, Maine and was educated at the Fessenden School. In 1956, he graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut.
Goss graduated from Yale University in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts in ancient Greek.[6] (Goss also speaks Spanish and French). At Yale, he was a member of Book and Snake, a secret society at Yale.[7] He was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity alongside William H. T. Bush, the uncle of President George W. Bush, and John Negroponte, who served as an ambassador for George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, and as Goss’s superior in the post of Director of National Intelligence from 2005 to 2006.[8] Negroponte solicited Goss’s assistance, while Goss was Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, to get the position as US ambassador to the United Nations in the first term of the second Bush administration.
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Retirement
Goss is an active speaker on the lecture circuit.[31] The retired CIA Director registered in April 2015 as a lobbyist representing Turkey.[32]
On February 16, 2016, Goss expressed his support for former Speaker Dennis Hastert in a letter to Judge Thomas Durkin.[33]
