Why is Porter Goss Chairing the First meeting of Office of Congressional Ethics? Cspan now.

[dixiegrrrrl]

[babylonsister]

1. Because he was appointed to the ethics board last year...

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/goss-among-former-members-appointed-to-ethics-office-2008-07-24.html

[kentuck]

2. How can anyone say Porter Goss and "ethics" in the same sentence?

He was a toady for Bush at the CIA.

[Dennis Donovan]

3. Well, someone's gotta order the limos and hookers....

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[stillcool]

4. I think he was appointed..

for his cover-up abilities.


http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/goss-among-former-members-appointed-to-ethics-office-2008-07-24.html

Goss among former members appointed to ethics office
By Susan Crabtree
Posted: 07/24/08 02:26 PM

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday announced joint appointments to a landmark ethics review board that for the first time will allow private citizens to review allegations against members.

Still, four out of six members of the board for the newly created Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) will be former members of Congress, including former CIA Director Porter Goss (R-Fla.), who will serve as co-chairman.

The other board members include Rep. David Skaggs (D-Colo.), who will serve as chairman of the board, former Rep. Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (D-Calif.), former Rep. Karan English (D-Ariz.), former House Chief Administrative Officer Jay Eagen and Allison Hayward, the former chief of staff to Bradley Smith, a Republican-appointed former chairman of the Federal Election Commission.

Two additional former members will serve as alternate appointees to the board: former federal judge and ex-Rep. Abner Mikva (D-Ill.) and former Rep. Bill Frenzel (R-Minn.).

The OCE will conduct preliminary reviews of ethics complaints and make recommendations to the full ethics committee for further investigation and action. Some watchdogs have criticized its lack of subpoena powers.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. This tells me all I need to know:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio)....


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