32 Facts About Porter Goss

Porter Goss's district, numbered as the 13th District from 1989 to 1993, included Fort Myers, Naples and part of Port Charlotte.

Porter Goss was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, the son of Virginia Holland and Richard Wayne Porter Goss, who was an executive of the Scovill Manufacturing Company.

Porter Goss attended Camp Timanous in Raymond, Maine and was educated at the Fessenden School.

Porter Goss graduated from Yale University in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts in ancient Greek.

The full details are not known due to the classified nature of the CIA, but Porter Goss says he has worked in Haiti, Santo Domingo, and Mexico.

Porter Goss, who has said he has recruited and trained foreign agents, worked in Miami for much of the time.

Porter Goss was involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, telling The Washington Post in 2002 that he had done some "small-boat handling" and had "some very interesting moments in the Florida Straits".

Towards the end of his career as a CIA officer, Porter Goss was transferred to Europe, where, in 1970, he collapsed in his London hotel room because of a blood infection in his heart and kidneys.

Porter Goss first retired from the CIA in 1971, and moved to Sanibel, Florida.

In 1988 Porter Goss ran for Congress in what was then the 13th congressional district of Florida, which was located on the Gulf Coast and stretched from Sarasota to Naples.

Porter Goss went on to defeat Bafalis handily in the runoff election.

Porter Goss was easily re-elected seven times from this district, which was renumbered as the 14th District after the 1990 census.

The district was so heavily Republican that Porter Goss faced a Democrat only one other time, in 1996; he won with 73 percent of the vote.

Porter Goss was unopposed for reelection in 1990,1994,1998, and 2002, and faced only third-party opposition in 1992 and 2000.

Major bills sponsored by Porter Goss include a bill to limit Congressional pay raises to no more than Social Security cost-of-living adjustments, The Public Interest Declassification Act of 1999, and the USA PATRIOT Act.

Porter Goss served in Congress for 16 years until his appointment by President George W Bush to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Porter Goss helped establish and served on the Homeland Security Committee.

In mid-2004, Porter Goss took a very strong position, during what had already been announced as his last congressional term, urging specific reforms and corrections in the way the CIA carried out its activities, lest it become "just another government bureaucracy".

Porter Goss called the uproar over the President's Daily Brief of August 6,2001, "a lot of nonsense".

Ray McGovern, a 27-year veteran of the CIA turned Democratic political activist and a frequent commentator on intelligence issues, believed the report showed that Porter Goss gave "clear priority to providing political protection for the president" when conducting the inquiry.

Porter Goss chiefly blames President Bill Clinton for the CIA failures.

Porter Goss noted a 1977 quote of Kerry's arguing for intelligence budget cuts and calling Kerry's proposals on nuclear security "dangerously naive".

Senator John D RockefellerIV, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, expressed concerns that Goss was too politically partisan, given his public remarks against Democrats while serving as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

On May 5,2006, Porter Goss's resignation was announced at a joint press briefing with President Bush at the White House.

Porter Goss made the point with Negroponte that pursuing changes Negroponte reportedly desired, in the manner upon which Negroponte reportedly insisted, contradicted the intent of the intelligence reform legislation to add to the capabilities of the existing agencies in the intelligence community, not to detract and diminish those existing capabilities.

The Weekly Standard noted that Porter Goss wanted intelligence analysts to get more exposure to intelligence gathering and Negroponte planned to move them from the CIA over to DNI, farther from intelligence gathering.

Porter Goss was replaced by Negroponte's Principal Deputy Director for National Intelligence, four-star Air Force General Michael Hayden.

Porter Goss registered in April 2015 as a lobbyist representing Turkey.

Porter Goss is a member of the ReFormers Caucus of Issue One.

Porter Goss was appointed as co-chairman of the Board of the then-new Office of Congressional Ethics in July 2008.

Porter Goss would continue to serve in that position until 2015.

On February 16,2016, Goss expressed his support for former Speaker Dennis Hastert in a letter to Judge Thomas M Durkin.