WASHINGTON (AP) - The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee warned fellow Democrats in the Senate on Sunday against trying to block the nomination of Rep. Porter Goss as CIA director, saying that would be picking the wrong fight in this election year.
Democrats should ask tough questions of Goss, R-Fla., at Senate confirmation hearings next month, but ``my view is this is the wrong fight,'' Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., said on NBC's ``Meet the Press.''
``To get stuck in a fight about Porter Goss after tough questions are asked of Porter Goss is not where we ought to be this fall,'' said Harman, who has no vote on the matter because the Senate confirms presidential nominees.
Goss resigned as chairman of the House intelligence panel last week after President Bush nominated him to replace George Tenet at CIA.
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