PORTER GOSS
(Porter Johnston Goss)
President George W. Bush appointed Goss as CIA Director after the made these and other derogatory statements about the CIA. This did not endear the new director to the CIA staff, and it was very difficult for a man to lead an organization for whose employees the man disrespected and insulted. Later Bush fired Goss.
During that period some terrorists were handed over to Saudi Arabian and Egyptian authorities for interrogation. These countries had no qualms about torture. Goss never answered the question about that practice.
Porter Johnston Goss is an American politician and government official who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 until 2004, when he became the last Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and the first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency following the passage of the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, which abolished the DCI position and replaced it with the Director of National Intelligence on April 21, 2005.
