[NOTE FROM JOHN: I just read the Wash Post article on this and am bumping this to the top of the blog (for now). This is a VERY important article. This could derail Goss' appointment, or at the very least, will create a few days of VERY GOOD theater to get us off of the veterans who shall be unnamed...]
Now what is it that Bush is saying about Kerry and his voting record for intelligence? (Title to recent Bush ad: "John Kerry . . . proposed slashing Intelligence Budget 6 Billion Dollars.") There was something there about being "reckless" I believe.
Hmmm, now let's take a little look at Bush's man for the open job at the CIA.
Goss, who has been chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for the past eight years, was one of six original co-sponsors of legislation in 1995 that called for cuts of at least 4 percent per year between 1996 and 2000 in the total number of people employed throughout the intelligence community.Oh dear, I think that Mr. Goss looks very, very reckless and he's probably trying to drag down America. It's time for the Dem's to put Bush back on the defensive, right before the convention like they did to Kerry. Why does Bush hate America?
But the cuts Goss supported are larger than those proposed by Kerry and specifically targeted the "human intelligence" that has recently been found lacking. The recent report by the commission probing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks called for more spending on human intelligence.
