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By Sridhar Krishnaswami
New York: Overcoming objections from senior Democrats on Capitol Hill, the Republican-led Senate voted to approve Porter Goss as the new head of the Central Intelligence Agency for a tenure that could be short lived in case of a change in the White House after the November 2 election. The 65 year-old Mr. Goss who planned to go into retirement after eight terms in the House of Representatives was confirmed on Wednesday by a vote of 77 to 17. Neither the Democratic nominee, Senator John Kerry nor his running mate, John Edwards, took part in the confirmation vote. In nominating him to the post the U.S. President, George W. Bush, called Mr. Goss a "leader with strong experience in intelligence and in the fight against terrorists" as also the "right man" for the job. But many Democrats have a different take on Mr. Goss — they see him as too much of a partisan and hence would not be objective in his new post. In addition to being the head of the CIA Mr. Goss will also be the head of the country's 14 other agencies that go up to make the intelligence community of the United States.
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