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A Senate panel on Tuesday approved the nomination of Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) to head the CIA, over Democrats' objections that Goss was too political for the job. In a closed meeting, the Senate Intelligence Committee voted 12 to 4, with three Democrats, including Dianne Feinstein of California, joining the committee's nine Republicans in approving the nomination and Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards making no recommendation.

After a little more than a year in his newly created job, John D. Negroponte, the director of national intelligence, has won an initial battle to establish authority over the vast U.S. intelligence community -- Porter J. Goss, who resisted Negroponte's moves to limit the autonomy of the CIA, is gone. But Negroponte faces a larger and much more difficult challenge: a struggle with Secretary Donald H.

CIA Director Porter J. Goss resigned under pressure Friday, ending a tumultuous 19-month tenure marked by clashes with the nation's new intelligence chief over the CIA's reduced role in the restructured spy community. U.S. intelligence and other officials said Goss was pushed out by Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte, whose growing disenchantment with the CIA director was shared by members of President Bush's intelligence advisory board.

Distracting battles over bureaucratic turf. Sinking morale in the spy ranks. Another CIA director, his reputation battered, heading for the door with a long list of unfinished tasks. The ouster of CIA Director Porter J. Goss on Friday underscores the extent to which major pieces of the U.S. intelligence community are still in disarray despite -- or in some cases because of -- well-intentioned efforts to fix them. More than 4 1/2 years after the nation's spy services failed to prevent the Sept.

CIA Director Porter J. Goss said Wednesday that the United States was making a renewed push for access to Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, and acknowledged that U.S. intelligence agencies had yet to track down and eradicate certain pieces of Khan's vast proliferation network.

Facing criticism that his first year as CIA chief has been marked by a lack of direction, Porter J. Goss said Thursday that the agency has expanded its presence overseas, ramped up recruitment of Arab Americans and other ethnic groups, and reduced its reliance on foreign intelligence services. In remarks broadcast to agency employees around the world, Goss sought to highlight accomplishments during a tumultuous year in which the CIA's role was sharply diminished by post-Sept.

CIA Director Porter J. Goss said Wednesday that he would not consider punishing agency officials for failures leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks -- rejecting pressure from lawmakers, victims' families and the CIA inspector general to hold accountable those responsible for well-documented breakdowns. Goss ruled out disciplinary action against former CIA Director George J.

CIA Director Porter J. Goss will be placed in charge of human spying operations across all of the nation's intelligence agencies as part of a restructuring expected to be unveiled today, U.S. intelligence officials said. The change would solidify the CIA's long-standing role in leading human intelligence collection efforts around the globe and give the agency greater control over spying operations conducted by the Pentagon and the FBI, officials said.

Administration officials said President Bush had narrowed the field of candidates for CIA director to at least two people, three weeks after outgoing Director George J. Tenet announced his departure. Two administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Bush was focusing on House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) and at least one other candidate.

A key Democratic senator and senior intelligence officials raised objections Friday to the potential nomination of Rep. Porter J. Goss as director of central intelligence, complicating White House calculations on whether to push the Florida Republican for the job. Goss, a former CIA case officer and current chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has emerged as a leading candidate for the top position at the nation's pre-eminent spy service -- a job to be vacated next month when George J.