And she calls the republicans two-faced

Pelosi Critical of Goss Nomination, Despite Earlier Support
By Melanie Hunter
CNSNews.com Deputy Managing Editor
August 10, 2004

(CNSNews.com) - House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi stands opposed to the nomination of Rep. Peter Goss (R-Fla.), an eight-term congressman and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, to head the CIA, but just two months ago, Pelosi pledged to support Goss for the position.

On Tuesday Pelosi suggested Goss is too "political" to be named director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

"But I will say what I said before is that there shouldn't - a person should not be the director of central intelligence who's acted in a very political way when we're dealing with the safety of the American people," she told CNN.

"Intelligence has to be the gathering and analysis and dissemination of information, of intelligence, without any political, any politics involved at all," Pelosi added.

But on June 5, 2004, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported Pelosi saying that if Goss were nominated for the post, she would support him, having worked closely with Goss during the congressional investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks.

The newspaper reported Pelosi as saying whoever replaces CIA Director George Tenet "needs to be independent of political pressure" and Goss, having worked for the CIA before being elected to the House of Representatives, has shown that ability as chairman of the House Intelligence panel.