8/11/2004 07:24:37 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

Who would the Dems have been happy with at CIA? Absolutely no one.

Yeah, Porter Goss is a Republican. So what? How many independents are truly qualified for the job? The current political climate, on the heels of the 9/11 Commission report, almost exclusively requires appointment of a partisan, or a Fortune 500 CEO. The other option is appointing a bureaucrat, and since the operation of the bureaucracy has been repeatedly cited as the problem with American intelligence, this is a nonstarter, and should (and no doubt, would) result in a torrent of due criticism. The critics are not unhappy that the new director is a partisan - they are unhappy because he is a Republican. Bush did not pull a Clinton and appoint a known member of the opposite party as a cabinet level official.

Yet just another example of the Democratic Party viewing national security as a political football.

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