So, Porter Goss, co-chair of the House Ethics Office LAUGHED about the CIA tape destruction.

Board & Staff
Board

David Skaggs, Chairman
Porter J. Goss, Co-Chairman

http://oce.house.gov/board-staff.html


C.I.A. Document Details Destruction of Tapes

WASHINGTON — Porter J. Goss, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in 2005 approved of the decision by one of his top aides to destroy dozens of videotapes documenting the brutal interrogation of two detainees, according to an internal C.I.A. document released Thursday.

Shortly after the tapes were destroyed at the order of Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., then the head of the C.I.A.’s clandestine service, Mr. Goss told Mr. Rodriguez that he “agreed” with the decision, according to the document. He even joked after Mr. Rodriguez offered to “take the heat” for destroying the tapes.

“PG laughed and said that actually, it would be he, PG, who would take the heat,” according to one of the document, an internal C.I.A. e-mail message.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4345512

Good one!



Operation 40 was a Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored undercover operation in the early 1960s, which was active in the Caribbean (including Cuba), Central America, and Mexico. Created by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in March 1960 after the January 1959 Cuban Revolution and presided over by Vice-president Richard Nixon, it included people such as Frank Sturgis (who would later become one of the Watergate burglars), Felix Rodriguez (a CIA officer who later was involved in the capture and summary execution of Che Guevara), Luis Posada Carriles (now held in the US under illegal immigration charges, he is demanded by Venezuela for his key role in the execution of the 1976 Cubana Flight 455 bombing), Orlando Bosch (founder of the counterrevolutionary Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations, CORU), which organized the 1976 murder of Chilean former minister Orlando Letelier), Rafael 'Chi Chi' Quintero, Virgilio Paz Romero, Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, Bernard Barker, Porter Goss, and Barry Seal. Members took part in the April 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion directed against the government of Cuban prime minister Fidel Castro.

Operation 40 had 86 employees in 1961, of which 37 were trained as case officers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_40#Members

So, do you have to be a former member of a death squad to keep track of Congressional Ethics or is that just considered a hobby on your CV? It's unreasonable to expect this individual to take a little torture very seriously, no?

What a thugs gallery that picture is! Sad, sad state of affairs -- too many including Goss will make sure absolutely nothing happens.

How is that possible?

He hasn't been in Congress for six years.

He was appointed to co-chair the Ethics Office after he resigned from CIA.

Thanks!

Pelosi Appoints Hired Assassin to Ethics Commission

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/35068

That photo looks like a still from a mob movie

and confirmed that TODAY Porter Goss is the co-chair.

This is their number: (202)-225-9739

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Interesting.

-Hoot

in our government to fuck us Americans more everyday. Time to go after the sociopaths... lock em up. they are no good.

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I just can't begin to express how this discourages me.

to verify that this man is still in this position. The receptionist put me on hold and came back to say, no, he's just the former head of the CIA. Which was wrong, of course.

After verifying with the HE Office itself, I didn't have the moral energy to call Nancy's office back. It's not that staffer's fault that our government is caving in on its own corruption and she was probably looking forward to her Friday night.

Weren't we supposed to have had an election and a new administration take over a while back? Why am I still seeing the criminals from the last administration showing up in power positions?

our government. Just like any government even though, we tell ourselves we are different. Porter Goss was involved in terrorism before a lot of the posters at DU were even born. And he's part of that corrupt thread that we never get around to pulling.

We tend to think in four year cycles but Goss has been out there for about the last fifty years.

NIce. :sarcasm:

lol

:D

Doesn't this make anyone wonder? or should it , like all other questions, be swept under the rug as "no big thing" ?

It's a conspiracy theory that makes the left look bad (not to mention weak on terror).

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