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>Porter Goss
Some more interesting background. Porter Goss seems an unlikely defender of John Brennan mainly because Goss's ill-starred career at the Agency seems like a period he would like most to put behind him.
Not a man with a spotless reputation for either competence or dedication to the job, Goss seems like a guy who would want to keep a very low profile. This raises all the more the question of what would inspire Porter Goss to speak up now. It seem like something or someone must have lit a fire under him after over a decade away from the limelight.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/10/former-cia-director-porter-gosss-dusty-foggo-problem/
Former CIA Director Porter Goss’s Dusty Foggo Problem
Laura RozenOct. 1, 2008 4:01 PM
…Around the time of Cunningham’s agreement to plead guilty to federal authorities back in November 2005, I began hearing from intelligence sources that there was an as yet unreported and unexplored CIA connection to the case. Namely, that Brent Wilkes’ best friend was the number three guy at the CIA, Dusty Foggo, and he had also been throwing CIA contracts at his friend Wilkes….
And as the evidence accumulated, the CIA was starting to realize that it had a Dusty Foggo problem. (The later 28-count indictment <. href="/news/feature/2008/10/foggo-indictment.pdf">pdfof Foggo revealed just how big a Dusty Foggo problem the CIA had on its hands).
Now, then-CIA director Porter Goss’s decision to appoint Foggo to the CIA’s number three spot had been a highly controversial and contentious one at the Agency. Foggo was well known in Agency ranks for philandering, gambling, a security issue dating to his Vienna days, and for generally being something of a sleaze….
“What the Republicans keep saying is that Porter came in to reform the Agency,” he continued. “So Porter comes in and appoints to run the Agency a man everybody knew was sleazy and he paid no attention to the man’s past. And he brought with him in addition a bunch of people who knew nothing about the organization and its operations and then he himself was a hands off person who basically did not get involved in managing the organization. It was a disaster from day one.”
“A lot of people left the Agency because they would not work for Kyle Dusty Foggo,” he added. “They could not work for a criminal.”
Foggo is scheduled to be sentenced to prison in January. It would be worth asking Porter Goss what he thinks of it all.