Director Peter Goss

The former CIA Director Porter Goss has given the go-ahead for the destruction of tapes depicting brutal interrogation of two terrorist suspects. According to CIA's internal e-mails, in 2005, then Director of the agency's clandestine service Jose Rodriguez ordered the destruction of hundreds of torture tapes — a move "approved" by the Goss. However, Rodriguez had expressed concern over the destruction of the 92 tapes saying it would be "devastating" to the CIA if they ever surfaced, the...Read Full Story

CIA Director Michael Hayden announced he is bringing back Michael Sulick to head clandestine services. The return of this highly regarded career CIA officer was well received among intelligence professionals and nonpartisan observers. Centrists and independents should be heartened by the continued depoliticization of American intelligence. The degradation of the CIA as a professional intelligence service began under President Clinton and accelerated under President Bush. Foreign policy was a...Read Full Story

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. [Click for More]Read Full Story

On 22 July, less than two weeks after George Tenet’s departure, the 9/11 Commission (officially the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, chaired by former Republican New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean, with former Democratic Indiana Representative Lee H.Hamilton as vice chair) issued its lengthy final report.Read Full Story

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is continuing to develop methods to increase the Alternative Fuel Vehicle (AFV) percentage in its qualifying fleet, enhance its qualifying fleet's alternative fuel usage, and improve its fleet's overall fuel economy.Read Full Story