President Bush has nominated Republican congressman and former CIA officer Porter Goss of Florida to be the new head of the Central Intelligence Agency. For the past eight years he has been the Republican chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Goss’s appointment has been criticized from many in Washington.

Former CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who served in the Carter administration, called the nomination”the worst appointment that”s ever been made.” Senator John Rockefeller, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which will hold hearings on the nomination, declared that it was a mistake to select “any politician, from either party.”