Goss confirmed as CIA chief

The US Senate on Wednesday confirmed Porter Goss as new chief of the Central Intelligence Agency to succeed George Tenet, who resigned in July, report agencies.

Goss, 65, a Republican from Florida, was nominated by President George W. Bush in August, and confirmed yesterday by a vote of 77-17 following an approval

by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday.

Goss, a Yale graduate and a former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, worked as a CIA and Army intelligence officer in the 1960s.

He would be second lawmaker to become CIA chief, after former president and House member George H. W. Bush, father of the current president.