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PR Week's Douglas Quenqua applauds "how effortlessly George Bush [5] changed the conversation last week. Political debate ... had centered on the 9/11 Commission [6]'s recommendations." This was problematic, since "John Kerry [7] unhesitatingly endorsed implementation of every recommendation - and quickly passed Bush's poll numbers on matters of national security." But Bush's nomination of Rep. Porter Goss [8] for CIA director shifted attention to "Goss and what the Democrats were going to do to stop the nomination - something Bush had counted on." Newsweek reports [9] that Goss' recently introduced "intelligence reform" bill "would enable the president to issue secret findings allowing the CIA to conduct covert operations inside the United States - without even any notification to Congress."
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/6/diane-farsetta
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/war-peace/terrorism
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/politics
[4] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.prwatch.org%2Fspin%2F2004%2F08%2F2850%2Fspinning-spies-fun-and-electoral-profit&linkname=Spinning%20Spies%20for%20Fun%20and%20Electoral%20Profit
[5] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=George_Walker_Bush
[6] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=9/11_commission
[7] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=John_Forbes_Kerry
[8] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Porter_Goss
[9] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5675992/site/newsweek/
[10] http://prweek.com/news/news_story.cfm?ID=219497&site=3