Porter Goss
Porter Goss
Porter Johnston Gossis an American politician and government official who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 until 2004, when he became the last Director of Central Intelligenceand the first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency following the passage of the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, which abolished the DCI position...
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No agency has greater skill and experience in this difficult, complex, and utterly vital discipline of intelligence,
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Singling out these individuals would send the wrong message to our junior officers about taking risks,
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One of the things frankly we have to do is demystify (the CIA) a little bit, ... You are not going to be James Bond if you sign up and five years later you're going to be driving an Aston Martin with a beautiful young lady at your side on the Riviera. You might be, but I'm not aware of that program yet.
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China has secrets they're trying to keep from the eyes of the world,
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We cannot afford to make changes blindly, or in unnecessary haste,
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We will be a fact-driven, witness-driven review inquiry, ... We will not be driven by outside pressures.
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This was long overdue, because as the last DCI, I can say that the job had become frankly too big for one person,
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We can totally disrupt. We've had great success at this already, but this gives us obviously more focus and more clearly about exactly where to go and what to look at.
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foreign policy team was all on the same page.
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The nominations of Ambassador Negroponte and Gen. Hayden are welcome news and a critical step in continuing to strengthen our intelligence community and to create even better coordinated working relationships and communications between the agencies,
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I've got to tell you, it was a broken system, ... It was one of the things I found most stunning when I got here.
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The turmoil has left some employees shaken and has prompted former colleagues in Congress to question how Goss intends to improve the agency's capabilities and restore morale. The White House is aware of the problems, administration officials said, and believes they are being handled by the director of national intelligence, who now oversees the agency.
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What we do does not come close to torture,
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What we can learn from him, I hope -- because this is a process which he may not participate too willingly in -- is basically what operations are out there that we can defend against and forestall,