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Porter Goss
1st Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
In office April 21, 2005 – May 5, 2006
President
George W. Bush
Deputy
Albert Calland
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Michael Hayden
19th Director of Central Intelligence
In office September 24, 2004 – April 21, 2005
President
George W. Bush
Deputy
John E. McLaughlin
Preceded by
George Tenet
Succeeded by
Position abolished
Chair of the House Intelligence Committee
In office January 3, 1997 – September 23, 2004
Preceded by
Larry Combest
Succeeded by
Pete Hoekstra
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida
In office January 3, 1989 – September 23, 2004
Preceded by
Connie Mack III
Succeeded by
Connie Mack IV
Constituency
13th district (1989–1993) 14th district (1993–2004)
Personal details
Born
Porter Johnston Goss
(1938-11-26) November 26, 1938 (age 85) Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.
Political party
Republican
Spouse
Mariel Robinson
Children
4
Education
Yale University (BA)
Signature
Military service
Allegiance
United States
Branch/service
United States Army
Years of service
1960–1962 1962–1972
Porter Goss's voice
Porter Goss responds to questions on the CIA's interrogations of enemy combatants Recorded February 16, 2005
Porter Johnston Goss (/ɡɒs/; born November 26, 1938) is an American politician and government official who served as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2004 to 2006. He was the last Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 2004 to 2005, then became 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 December 17, 2004
Before taking over the CIA, Goss was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 14th congressional district from 1989 to 2004. His district, numbered as the 13th District from 1989 to 1993, included Fort Myers, Naples and part of Port Charlotte. He served as Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from 1997 to 2004, was a co-sponsor of the USA PATRIOT Act and was a co-chair of the Joint 9/11 Intelligence Inquiry.
Goss resigned as Director of the CIA on May 5, 2006, in a sit-down press conference with President George W. Bush from the Oval Office.[1] On May 8, Bush nominated U.S. Air Force General Michael Hayden to be Goss's successor.
Porter Johnston Goss (/ɡɒs/; born November 26, 1938) is an American politician and government official who served as the head of the Central Intelligence...
reorganization took effect on December 17, 2004. The 19th and last DCI, Porter J. Goss became the first director of the CIA, while John Negroponte became the...
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the Deputy Majority Leader. In 2003, incumbent Republican Congressman PorterGoss announced his intention to retire in order to serve as Director of the...
to Tania Goss, an alumna of the Ethel Walker School and Vassar College who was the daughter of Natalie Holbrook and Chauncey PorterGoss (d. 1964) of...
reserved the right to waive this bill if he thought that was needed. PorterGoss, the Director of Central Intelligence, in testimony before the Senate...
of the Cali Cartel of Colombia beginning in 1995. Paul Coverdell and PorterGoss championed the legislation with the support of Clinton in 1999. Since...
2003 that the CIA would like to have them destroyed. Representatives PorterGoss (who later served as CIA Director) and Jane Harman thought that would...
2004. The position of DD/CIA was created administratively by then-D/CIA PorterGoss and received statutory approval from the U.S. Congress in 2010. The first...
(Chair: David Dreier, Vice Chair: PorterGoss, Ranking Member: Joe Moakley) The Legislative Process (Chair: PorterGoss, Vice Chair: Deborah Pryce) The...
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of political satire. A website for then-U.S. Representative PorterGoss, www.PorterGoss.com, directed to a website for the white supremacy organisation...
primary, he was named chairman of the Intelligence Committee, succeeding PorterGoss, who became Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Hoekstra had...
Vice Chair: PorterGoss, Ranking Member: Joe Moakley, then Martin Frost) The Legislative Process (Chair: Deborah Pryce, Vice Chair: PorterGoss) Technology...
questioning took place.: 77 of 499 The CIA's directors (George Tenet, PorterGoss and Michael Hayden) provided inaccurate and misleading information to...
National Security Advisor General James L. Jones, former CIA Directors PorterGoss and James Woolsey, former FBI Director Louis Freeh, former NYC Mayor...
female handlers". A CIA document reveals that Jane Harman (D-CA) and PorterGoss (R-FL) of the House Intelligence Committee were briefed on 13 July 2004...
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