Trent Lott: “We need to confirm Congressman Porter Goss to be head of the CIA. We need to look at the 9/11 Commission recommendations…”

“We need to confirm Congressman Porter Goss to be head of the CIA. We need to look at the 9/11 Commission recommendations and see how much of those can be done in a responsible way. I know there will be some who will resist and will defend the status quo or worry about committee turf. But we have a problem. Our intelligence operation is not set up properly. We had failures as we went into Iraq. We should not try to deny that. We should acknowledge it. I commend our men and women in the intelligence community who do a great job. They are on the line this day in Afghanistan, Iraq, and even here in America. We should recognize that talent. We should be careful not to undermine the morale of those organizations. We have learned there is a problem with chain of command and how the analytical material is checked and double-checked. We know the Intelligence Committees in the Congress have not been set up in a way to do proper oversight.”