PORTER GOSS SWORN IN AS CIA CHIEF
President George W. Bush congratulates Porter Goss after he was sworn in as the new CIA director in the Oval Office of the White House on Sept. 24, 2004. Goss' wife Mariel is by his side. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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