Michael Moore fighting nomination of Porter Goss

Hopefully Michael Moore can give another boost to the debate- http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/13/moore.goss.reut/index.html

Moore told Reuters that Goss, who until Tuesday was chairman of the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, granted an interview to two of his producers without first checking to see who they worked for.

"You'd think the person who was the head of the intelligence committee would ask a few more questions," said Moore.

"The reality is that Porter Goss was in charge of the oversight of the CIA during a time when the CIA didn't do its job, which in part resulted in the loss of lives of 3,000 people," he said via telephone from New York.

If the Democrats don't fight the nomination of Porter Goss it will be big mistake. Goss has openly criticized John Kerry's stance on terrorism and intelligence during this campaign and Goss will not reform the agency as it needs to be. But this pick was a good move by Bush and Rove. It pretty much pins the Dems into an ugly corner- go after Goss and risk looking "political" or let Goss slide through and let the new head of intelligence be a guy who has bashed John Kerry on the record! IMO most Americans don't think Bush lied to get us into war, they think he was fooled by crummy intelligence. I think this is a good chance to bash Bush's record on terrorism and the use of intelligence. We can't be scared to use it. My favorite quote from Goss is in response to the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity in a column by fellow political hack Robert Novak (courtesy of the SW Florida Herald-Tribune):

Goss said the uproar was the result of "wild and unsubstantiated allegations, which are being obviously piled on by partisan politicians during an election year." There was no need to mount an investigation, he said, because there was no evidence of "willful disclosure" (though how he reached that conclusion without an investigation, he didn't say). Then, in a jab against Bush's favorite target, Bill Clinton, Goss cracked, "Somebody sends me a blue dress and some DNA, I'll have an investigation."