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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5305528/site/newsweek/ Secret Agent Man Porter Goss is not known for his sharp elbows. So why is the ex-spook suddenly lashing out? Untangling Langley's politics. By Michael Hirsh, Michael Isikoff and Mark HosenballNewsweek July 5 issue - Porter J. Goss of Hotchkiss and Yale has long been seen as a model of patrician restraint on Capitol Hill. After 9/11, when other Republicans in charge of overseeing intelligence condemned CIA Director George Tenet, Goss stayed nimbly above the fray. "I'm not going to fall for the bait of getting into the political discussion," the chairman of the House intelligence committee, who served in the CIA's clandestine service for a decade, once said. So many a bushy eyebrow was raised when Goss interrupted a House debate on a new intelligence bill-typically a fairly genteel, not-so-partisan affair-with a classic political stunt last week. Goss held up a sign with a 1977 quote from John Kerry that argued for intel-budget cuts. "I got books full of that stuff," Goss said. "The Democratic Party did not support the intelligence community." When Democratic Rep. Norm Dicks fired back, pointing out that Dick Cheney was one of the biggest defense cutters of the "peace dividend" '90s, Goss somewhat sheepishly put the sign away. He hadn't meant to be "combative," he said. The same week the man long known as a CIA loyalist (Goss once started a business with two former agency friends) took aim at his old spook pals. Goss put his name atop a scathing critique of the agency: the CIA, his House committee report said, has "been ignoring its core mission activities" and the clandestine service is on its way to being "a stilted bureaucracy incapable of even the slightest bit of success." Even some Democrats said that was over the top. In fact, said Rep. Anna Eshoo, she and other intelligence committee Democrats blame Goss as much as the CIA for many such problems. Democrats have deep "frustrations" with the committee's lack of aggressive oversight under his leadership, Eshoo said. Outgoing Director Tenet-who since announcing his resignation last month feels as though he's taking the fall for everything, friends say-was apoplectic. He and Goss had once been friendly. In a bitter, sarcastic letter, Tenet called the House critique "absurd" and "ill-informed." What gives with Goss? Some of his backers say the retiring eight-term congressman from Florida has become genuinely concerned about the breakdown of U.S. intelligence. "We can't keep going the way we've been going here," Goss told NEWSWEEK last Saturday. "We've had too many surprises." But political observers in Washington think there's another explanation for his new profile: Goss, 65, badly wants to finish up his career in Washington as director of the CIA. Many of his Hill colleagues think he's campaigning hard for the job and carrying the White House's water by attacking Kerry. By confronting the CIA, Goss can also help the administration show that it is serious about intel reform. It will need to be: a pair of punishing reports on the agency's performance are due out next month from the 9-11 Commission and the Senate intelligence committee. Goss dismisses the talk about him becoming CIA director as "rumint"-spook-speak for rumors. "I am not campaigning for the job. I have not sought the job. I have not asked for the job," he said. Goss refused to say whether he has discussed the job with President George W. Bush, although he acknowledged that "I talk to the White House fairly often about national-security matters." He cited the Kerry quote, he says, because of what he sees as Democratic hypocrisy in hitting the Bush administration for failing to fund intelligence. The White House says no decision on Tenet's successor has been made, and the president is still considering at least two candidates. But Bush officials were uncharacteristically restrained when offered a chance to knock down the Goss rumors. And they have clearly changed their minds about leaving Deputy Director John McLaughlin, who is set to take over next month, in place through the election. "I can tell you there will be a new DCI [director of Central Intelligence] this year," one official told NEWSWEEK. Heading into an election that will likely hinge on national-security issues, Bush knows that McLaughlin is identified with the CIA's biggest misjudgments about Iraq and 9/11. Among them was the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, mainly authored by McLaughlin, that made the case against Saddam Hussein. Sources tell NEWSWEEK that the 9-11 Commission staff has concluded that the terror attacks were probably preventable-and that lapses by the CIA are primarily responsible. The Senate report too is expected to castigate the CIA over several prewar mistakes. Even some inside the CIA agree with Goss that the agency remains too risk averse. One such senior CIA official angered agency professionals last week almost as much as Goss did when galleys of his forthcoming, anonymous book, "Imperial Hubris," found their way into the media. He claims that overcautiousness led agency managers to "deliberately downplay the al-Qaeda menace throughout most of the 1990s." Bush, says one White House official, wants to be able to refer "the reform issue" to someone new "as the reports come" in. The administration also wants "to have someone up there making sure things are being done" should a terrorist attack occur before Nov. 2, he said. And some White House officials have suggested that the popular Goss would be easily confirmed. But that may be more bad intel. Some Goss critics, even in the GOP, see him as another believer in the old-school notion that intel problems can be solved by throwing money and personnel at them. One says that if Bush nominates Goss, "then I want Tenet back." It's true that Goss has backed relatively mild reform. He has proposed creating a more powerful DCI with more budgeting power, while the 9-11 Commission is considering far more drastic changes that could shake up the entire intel community. The Senate intelligence committee's top Democrat, Jay Rockefeller, also issued a warning: "The selection of a politician-any politician, from either party-would be a mistake." Goss says he regrets the partisan sniping in the House. But he adds that "intelligence, unfortunately, has become the partisan weapon of choice." He may soon find that he's a target himself. With Tamara Lipper in Washington C 2004 Newsweek, Inc. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. 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