Peter Hoekstra
Peter Hoekstra
Peter "Pete" Hoekstrais a Dutch-American politician who is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Michigan's 2nd congressional district from 1993 to 2011. Hoekstra is a member of the Republican Party...
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We see indications that the D.O.D. is trying to create parallel functions to what is going on in intelligence, but is calling it something else,
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I don't take the turmoil as unexpected, ... For people who created the culture at the C.I.A. that gave us the information about Al Qaeda, who gave us the information about Iraq, the kinds of changes that Porter is making may be uncomfortable, and they may be making the right decision: they're leaving.
message quality
The quality of the materials, the quality of the marketing, the message is very, very good.
demeaning difficult fairly honest performance personal
It's very difficult to do an honest appraisal of a lot of people's personal and professional performance without demeaning them, and to do it fairly and in hindsight.
focused hearts minds moderate recognizes war winning
It recognizes that much of this war ... is about winning the hearts and the minds of moderate Islam, and they are focused on it.
business contacts
We are not in the business of maintaining our own set of contacts around the world, ... We can't do that ? not at all.
committee continue house informed intelligence lead leaks move senate
As we move forward, the Senate intelligence committee is going to continue doing prewar intelligence, the House is going to take the lead on the leaks investigation and we will keep each other informed as to ... progress,
consequences damaging dangerous disclosure
As you know, if accurate, such an egregious disclosure could have long-term and far-reaching damaging and dangerous consequences,
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This is not where we normally get information, ... But Porter is more than willing - and encouraging - to take a serious look at these sources to see what value they might have.
boxes mean move
That doesn't necessarily mean let's go move the boxes again, ... restructuring fatigue.
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If there are 100 reasons not to make this information available, I got every one of them. We have received a proposal that clearly demonstrates that the DNI is living in the analog age while the rest of us are in the digital age. At this rate, my grandkids and great-grandkids will be the first ones to see this information. And I don't even have grandkids yet.
against reading single source
against reading too much into a single source of intelligence.
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he said. Asked why he, along with other members, refused to identify the panel's first witness, Hoekstra said, ''We probably have some overclassification situations of our own.
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The CIA and the intelligence community failed this country pretty badly. That's why there's new leadership at the CIA. Change is not easy,