Byron Dorgan: “I am going to vote for this nomination, but I do so without great enthusiasm, and I would like to explain why. Porter…”

“I am going to vote for this nomination, but I do so without great enthusiasm, and I would like to explain why. Porter Goss, I think, is qualified to assume this role. There is little in his record that suggests he is a reformer, and there is some piece of that record that suggests there is some partisanship, which bothers me. But I know Porter Goss. I have known him for a long while. When I served in the House of Representatives, I knew him. While I would not have made this choice had I been President, the President has the opportunity to make the selection and deserves, in this case, his own team. My hope is the questions asked of Mr. Goss at his hearings will make certain he will run the CIA with a reformist attitude, with an understanding that things need to change, with an understanding that this cannot, under any circumstance, be a position from which partisanship flows, and that we have to get straight answers, as does the President, from the Central Intelligence Agency.”