On Capitol Hill, the Senate Intelligence Committee is expected to * approve the nomination* today of Republican Congressman Porter Goss as the new director of the CIA. The full Senate will soon start debate on his nomination. Some Democrats have expressed concern that the former CIA officer is too partisan and too close to the White House to carry out the job. Yesterday Goss admitted for the first time that some prewar statements by senior Bush administration officials might have * overstated available intelligence* about the threat posed by Iraq.