| Yahoo News wrote: |
President George W. Bush gave no explanation for the move, which a senior administration
official said Bush had been discussing with Goss' boss, national intelligence director John
Negroponte, for the last few weeks.
No replacement was named for Goss, who has come under fire inside and outside the agency during
a difficult tenure. But an administration official said Negroponte could recommend a successor
as early as Monday, though an intelligence official said it was more likely to be later in the
week. |
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GOOD! Maybe they will get somebody in there that may actually have some intelligence...instead of just running an intelligence agency. The guys they have had in that job recently remind me of moinkeys gathering around a monolith with sticks.Yeah, because of course... It's his fault for September 11, remember? In all honesty, it might be a good move, change is (usually) good.
I'm not exactly sure he was in charge then, he's only been on the job less than 2 years.
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Porter J. Goss became Director of the Central Intelligence Agency on 21 April 2005. He served as the 19th Director of Central Intelligence from 24 September 2004 until 21 April 2005.
Previously, Mr. Goss represented the 14th Congressional District of Florida for almost 16 years. He was chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from 1997 until his nomination as DCI in August 2004. He served for almost a decade as a member of the committee, which oversees the intelligence community and authorizes its annual budget. During the 107th Congress, Mr. Goss co-chaired the joint congressional inquiry into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He was the second Director of Central Intelligence to have served in Congress.
Mr. Goss was a U.S. Army Intelligence officer from 1960 to 1962. He served as a clandestine service officer with the Central Intelligence Agency from 1962 until 1972, when an illness contracted on duty forced him to retire. While in the CIA's Directorate of Operations, he completed assignments in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe.
After leaving the CIA, Mr. Goss and his family settled in Sanibel, Florida, where he was a small business owner and founded a newspaper. He was elected to the Sanibel City Council in 1974 and served there until 1983, including three years as mayor. From 1983 until 1988, Mr. Goss was a member of the Lee County (Florida) Commission, where he served as its chairman from 1985 to 1986.
Mr. Goss holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in classics and Greek from Yale University. He was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on 26 November 1938. He and his wife, Mariel, have four children and 11 grandchildren. |
There you go.
Source: www.cia.govHe hold BA in classics?? How in the world did that qaulify him for the job of DCI I wonder. Hell, I have a MS from MIT...can I be Secretary of the Treasury?
*snicker*
That depends. Is your MS in philosophy or something like that?
Goss isn't being let go for incompetence because if that was the goal of the Bush Admininstration, they would have to fire just about everyone in the whitehouse including Bush. No, I think Goss is being "let go" in order to give the Bush lackey, Negroponte, more influence over the intelligence agencies -- very important if you want to continue a war based on lies.
err...no, it's in Applied Computer Sciences...but I have been counting money most of my life, surely that must count for something.
| Vrythramax wrote: |
| err...no, it's in Applied Computer Sciences...but I have been counting money most of my life, surely that must count for something. |
MS can only be obtained in science related subjects, by which, i mean computers, technology, electrical etc
Where did philosophy come in?
Anyway, when did MIT start teaching philosophysorry that got off topic. I assumed he majored in philiosophy from his quote and the fact that he didn't mention anything. So it could have been implied that he was talking about something similar to "classics". I don't mean to offend anybody who went to an institution with as much prestige as MIT. Hopefully we can continue the discussion or just start a new topic.
| mabuhay wrote: |
| sorry that got off topic. I assumed he majored in philiosophy from his quote and the fact that he didn't mention anything. So it could have been implied that he was talking about something similar to "classics". I don't mean to offend anybody who went to an institution with as much prestige as MIT. Hopefully we can continue the discussion or just start a new topic. |
No offence meant and I am sure Max will think the same too.I rarely get offended, it's all good 
No, MIT has not started teaching either the Classics or Philosophy, which in itself is rather ironic as you can earn a phD there (Philosophiae Doctor - Doctor of Philosophy), they instead deal with the [alleged] "pure sciences".
*Note* I don't see anything "pure" about my computer...I dump a glass of water on it and it'll roll over and die as fast as my TV.
EDIT: MIT is only prestigious to those who have not met any of the students, I have been going there for coming up on 6 years (currently attending part-time towards my Juris Doctorate), and the first thing that comes to mind is..."what a bunch of wackos". Anybody with a functional brain and a boatload of cash can attend. | Soulfire wrote: |
| Yeah, because of course... It's his fault for September 11, remember? In all honesty, it might be a good move, change is (usually) good. |
“[C]hange is (usually) good”? So, when will you change your religions? I mean the pro-big-government, pro-war, and pro-Bush religions -- not that other one. | The Philosopher Princess wrote: |
| “[C]hange is (usually) good”? So, when will you change your religions? I mean the pro-big-government, pro-war, and pro-Bush religions -- not that other one. |
I have to agree with Soulfire here Princess, change is usually for the best, but it does not always work to be the best course of action.
Some stupid examples could be, New Coke vs. Classic Coke...that didn't work out for the best...how about Windows ME? The list could go on for some time in truth, and not just about products, history itself is full of examples, as is nature and man's attempts at intervention.The daily show had a funny discussion about this and how all the news stations said his retirement party probably involved "hookers and poker" 
