President Bush appoints Florida Congressman Porter Goss as CIA Director: Mr. Goss's selection is bound to be controversial. He was responsible for Congressional oversight of the C.I.A., and the commission investigating the 9/11 attacks concluded that the oversight efforts largely failed. He is considered a strong partisan, and recently took to the floor of the House to attack Senator John Kerry, the president's opponent in November's election. Today the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator John D. Rockefeller, said he was concerned with Mr. Bush's choice, saying that the selection of a politician for the post — "any politician, from either party" —was a mistake. He made similar comments in June, when Mr. Goss was being mentioned in the press as a candidate for the job. But Mr. Rockefeller, Democrat of West Virginia, said today that he would work to move the nomination process forward, although Mr. Goss "will need to answer tough questions about his record and his position on reform." Within the C.I.A., views of Mr. Goss are mixed. But perhaps the biggest challenge to his nomination is the uncertainty over what kind of job he will be taking. Mr. Bush last week endorsed the creation of a national intelligence director, who will sit above the C.I.A. director and coordinate the activities of all intelligence agencies. While the C.I.A. job remains a critical one, it will therefore be much diminished, making the C.I.A. chief one among many intelligence directors.