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...other side is former Representative Porter Goss, who was the only other Representative at the same briefing as Pelosi in 2002. Goss, who went on to head the CIA, said in an Op-Ed in the Washington Post that they had been told about the EITs. "Today, I am slack-jawed to read that members claim to have not understood that the techniques on which they were briefed were to actually be employed; or that specific techniques such as 'waterboarding' were never mentioned," Goss wrote...
...According to the CQ story, Justice Department officials recommended launching a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe into Harman but were held back by then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who allegedly argued to then CIA Director Porter Goss and then Director of National Intelligence Michael Hayden that Gonzales needed Harman's support as the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee to defend President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretaps...
...Kenyan government says that's rubbish. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, GOSS stands for "General Ordinance and Security Supplies," a division of the Kenyan Defense Ministry. "This is the thing with these sort of acronyms - they could mean anything. It's perfectly plausible, and it's up to everybody else to prove otherwise," says Paul Holtom, a researcher with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's Arms Transfers Project. "My point is that that manifest doesn't support definitively one or the other except to say that the consignee is the Ministry of Defense in Kenya...
...Kenyan government contested that interpretation, saying GOSS stood for General Ordinance and Security Supplies - a division of the Kenyan Defense Ministry. But a South Sudanese government adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity on Thursday, rejected that notion. The adviser, a former fighter with the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), told TIME that Kenya had agreed long ago to facilitate such arms deals for South Sudan. "I know they belong to us, to South Sudan," the adviser said in a telephone interview. "There was a deal between the SPLA and the Kenyan government that they facilitate everything. The destination...
...Rudd was sometimes based in Canberra and could not have "spent seven or eight years representing Australian embassies overseas," as he told one interviewer. Rudd left the foreign service to work in Queensland politics as a Labor adviser. He was that state's top bureaucrat when Wayne Goss was Premier. After he failed in his attempt to enter federal politics at the 1996 election, he worked as a China consultant for management firm KPMG-which in Rudd's telling gives him credentials "running a business...