KATHERINE PFLEGER SHRADER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Sen. Jay Rockefeller brought two thick binders of statements to a confirmation hearing Monday for Rep. Porter Goss to drive home his belief that President Bush's choice to head the CIA is too political for the job.
But the Florida Republican and his supporters rejected the argument. Goss' nomination is expected to be approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday and come up for debate in the Republican-led Senate as early as this week. Some Democrats are likely to vote against him.
Goss served as House Intelligence chairman for nearly eight years ending in August. He would be only the second CIA director who served in Congress, after former president and House member George H.W. Bush. Even before the younger President Bush nominated Goss in August, Democrats complained that Goss lacked the independence to lead the U.S. intelligence community.
With the two white, three-ring binders of Goss' words in front of him, Rockefeller of West Virginia, the Senate intelligence panel's top Democrat, asked Goss how he plans to separate his past life as a congressman from a new role as CIA director.
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