Yeah, right...
TPM:
Also in the appendix to the Dusty Foggo sentencing memo: former CIA director Porter Goss offers a pretty lame justification for how he came to appoint a crook like Foggo to the agency's number 3 post:
Says Goss:
Due to public criticism of the CIA after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and criticism of my office after the prior candidate for the Executive Director's position was withdrawn, it was imperative to me that the selection of the Executive Director position be someone whose personal and professional conduct was beyond reproach. When Mr. Foggo came to speak with me about the Executive Director position in late 2004, I conveyed this requirement to him. I asked him directly whether there was anything I needed to know about his candidacy that would reflect poorly upon the Director's office or upon the CIA. He denied that there was anything. In reliance upon Mr. Foggo's assurances, and upon his having cleared the inter-agency vetting process, I selected him to be my Executive Director in 2004.
Later, Goss continues:
I known at the time that I was considering Mr. Foggo to be my Executive Director that he had engaged in the conduct he has admitted in his Plea Agreement and Statement of Facts, I absolutely would not have selected him to be my Executive Director nor would I have approved him for the Employee Performance Award that he received in August 2005."
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My biggest fear has come true Porter Goss is going to jail and he's gay. I knew he should have moved to Canada when this case come to light. Yes Porter is guilty as sin but he really didn't know what he was doing anyway. He can honestly tell the Judge he is stupid and was nothing but the puppet for the Bush Administration. He was told to turn a blind eye to the corruption and he got paid for it. The extra money came in handy for his special activities.
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