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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that any one person or group of people could have prevented 9/11.
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CIA will have the authority to set standards for the entire intelligence community on things relating to (human espionage),
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The jobs I'm being asked to do, the five hats that I wear, are too much for this mortal. I'm a little amazed at the workload.
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Their capture alone would not be enough to eliminate the terror threat to the U.S.,
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if the president determines that such operations are vital to the protection of the United States or its citizens from terrorist attack.
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They very definitely would like to find out all our secrets so they could copy them and take advantage of them, either in terms of their national security, the modernization of the army -- the PLA -- or in terms of competition in the marketplace,
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This is just extremely important and it's going to lead to other very successful activities very shortly, I'm sure.
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The need is obvious, ... As we start out today to do our job, we start out a little behind the curve because not enough people speak the languages we need. So we're looking for ways to fix that.
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In the intelligence community, everyone does his job and you don't share the information unless there is a need to know. This could be a case where the right compartments didn't talk to each other.
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Intelligence-related issues have become the fodder of partisan food fights and turf power skirmishes, ... All the while, the demand for our services and products against a ruthless and unconventional enemy has expended geometrically, and we are expected to deliver instantly.
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In other words, it has increased since then.
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How did it come about that highly sensitive technical information was given to the Chinese? Why did the president ignore the national security experts who counseled against this deal? What damage has been done to our national security?
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I am about (a) terrorist reading a top-secret report.
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If you see an up-tic of electronic activity in a certain area, ... you might expect that something is happening. It might be a nuclear test, it might be conversations on cell phones, it might be people warming airplane engines, it might be people getting ready to test rockets.