  Though CIA Directors are typically non-partisan and apolitical, Porter Goss is anything but. On June 23, 2004, Goss attacked presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) on the House floor. Goss held up a blowup of a chart about 1997 reductions in the intelligence budget and blamed "such distinguished Members of the Congress as Senator John Kerry... urlLink I got books full of that stuff . There is no doubt where the record is. The Democratic party did not support the intelligence community. " Keep in mind, both houses were controlled by Republican in 1997. After John Kerry delivered a major national security address in early June, Goss was tapped by the Bush/Cheney campaign to provide their official rebuttal. Goss wrote in a statement released on Bush's campaign website that " urlLink John Kerry's speech today amounted to little more than political 'me-tooism.
' He laid out some old goals that everyone agrees to, without offering concrete proposals to achieve them. He also neglected the President's historic achievements in this area. " In " urlLink an effort to revise history and expunge...[Goss'] record of partisan attacks, " the Bush campaign removed Goss' statement from its website yesterday. After it was called on the tactic, it restored the statement several hours later. Bush/Cheney communications director Nicolle Devenish called the decision to remove Goss' statement "a mistake.
" As chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Goss refused to investigate the outing of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame by a senior member of the White House staff. Goss told a newspaper last October that when " urlLink somebody sends me a blue dress and some DNA, I'll have an investigation . '" Is this the kind of open-minded non-partisan person you want protecting us from future terrorist attacks? 
