appointing someone to such an important position just to cut off heads and silence critics.
It has been done since teh beginning of time. It's called politics. It's also very much needed.
The state dept routinely ignores or circumvents many orders from the CiC because tenure, in their eyes, is more important than agenda's. It, the state dept, has been overrun by liberals, looking to govern from the inside, without ever having run an election. I hope Ms Rice eats these people alive. I don't expect it but one can hope.
Porter Goss, on the other hand, has already begun the bloodletting & descimating the inept CIA (an executive level dept).
Since it began getting infiltrated by the socialists, what have they done right? They missed the collapse of the Soviet Union. They missed the wall coming down. They missed all the terrorist attacks since 1978. They seem to have gotten Iraqs WMD programs wrong. They feed enough good info as to make themselves useful yet miss the real intel. Go Goss.