Jane Harman
Jane Harman
Jane Margaret Lakes Harmanis the former U.S. Representative for California's 36th congressional district, serving from 1993 to 1999, and from 2001 to 2011; she is a member of the Democratic Party. Resigning from Congress in February 2011, Harman became President and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She succeeded former Congressman Lee Hamilton and is the first woman to lead the 45-year-old “living memorial” to America’s 28th President...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 June 1945
CountryUnited States of America
We've got about a year to get it right.
To make those changes effectively, he has to do them with an experienced staff, and he doesn't have one, ... Many of us worked with that staff in the House. Frankly, on both sides of the aisle in our committee, we were happy to see them go.
We will be a fact-driven, witness-driven review inquiry. We will not be driven by outside pressures.
This requires a digital management system of the highest caliber,
There has not been the cooperation that there apparently has been on the Senate side,
its thoroughness and accuracy can then be debated.
dangerous and highly skilled people who intend major harm to America.
The NIE is a logical starting point to this investigation. It helped frame the decision to go to war.
The agency seems in free-fall in Washington, and that is a very, very bad omen in the middle of a war,
It's clear the Intelligence Community must do more to make diversity in hiring and retention of minority employees a high priority for all agencies.
We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.
Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.
As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted Al Qaeda. I believe the program is essential to US national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities.
There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.