“I couldn’t get a job with the CIA today,” commented Congressman Porter Goss (R-Fla) in a videotaped interview with the leftist film producter Michael Moore last March. “I am not qualified. I don’t have the language skills, I don’t have the cultral background probably. And I certainly don’t have the technical skills.”

More recently, President Bush nominated Congressman Goss-who did serve 10 years in the CIA’s clandestine service prior to being elected to Congress–to head the Agency. This choice was made despite the fact that Rep. Goss voted to cut the Agency’s human intelligence budget by 20 percent in 1993. This makes for an interesting counterpoint to the Bush administration’s assault on Senator John Kerry for casting nearly identical votes to reduce the CIA budget.

The Senate confirmed Rep. Goss as the new CIA director on September 23. Is there an unwritten rule that this post, one of the most powerful offices on the planet, must be held by a member of the Council on Foreign Relations? Apparently so. Porter Goss is the 16th Director of the CIA since 1950. With the exception of Adm. William F. Raborn, Jr. (April 1965-June 1966) all have been members of the CFR, America’s unelected one-world Establishment. Those CFR-CIA directors–in the order which they served–are:

Walter Bodell Smith
Allen W. Dulles
John A. McCone
Richard M. Helms
James R. Turner
William J. Casey
William H. Webster
Robert M. Gates
R. James Woolsey
John M. Deutch
George J. Tenet
Porter J. Goss

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