As we noted this morning, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sent her attack dog Robert Menendez onto the airwaves just minutes after it was reported President Bush would nominate Rep. Porter Goss to head the CIA.

CNN quoted the San Francisco Democrat today in saying she didn't support the nomination: "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. Intelligence has to be the gathering and analysis and dissemination of information, of intelligence, without any political, any politics involved at all."

Sorry, Nancy. The Republican National Committee has unearthed this from June 5, in the Chattanooga Times Free Press:

"If Goss is nominated for the post, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California said that she would support him. Pelosi worked closely with Goss during the congressional investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks. Whoever replaces Tenet needs to be independent of political pressure, Pelosi said. Goss, who worked for the CIA before becoming a congressman in 1988, has shown that ability as chairman of the House Intelligence panel, she added."

But hey, if she can now endanger national security to try to score points for Kerry ...

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