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
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.
The point of it is to understand fully how we collected, analyzed and presented intelligence ... and what responsibility the intelligence community had to correct misinformation by policymakers,
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.
In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms.
In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important.
The agency seems in free-fall in Washington, and that is a very, very bad omen in the middle of a war,
These topics bear little resemblance to the urgent recommendations made by the 9/11 commission,
Anyone who came in when he did would have had a steep hill to climb, in part because change can be difficult,
The military can set an example, ... I would suggest our president declare right now that we are transitioning our military fleet to alternative energy.
We will be a fact-driven, witness-driven review inquiry. We will not be driven by outside pressures.
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.
Twelve sick, sadistic kids could not have acted alone,
Counterterrorism Analysis and Collection: The Requirement for Imagination and Creativity.