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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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,
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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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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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It would be a huge embarrassment for us not to discuss the Kosovo situation.
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Things are going a lot better than the press has been reporting on virtually all fronts. We're going to be there for a while. It is dangerous, it is dirty, it is hot, it is not pleasant, but it is moving forward and the strategic doubt does not exist.
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Dysfunctional organizations do not take down or eliminate the most dangerous proliferators in the world ... nor do they aid in the disarmament of a country like Libya.
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reaffirms our role as the lead for human intelligence.
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We are going to be in places people can't even imagine,
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the suspicion that maybe people are covering it up.
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Every day is a new day for the intelligence people. I would say that we are probably a couple of years away from getting through all the material and talking to all the people we need to talk to about exactly what was going on.
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we are a superpower, but we're not an aggressive superpower.
I think our safeguards are in place and are working,
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You just don't end up with a satellite up there that suddenly, magically gives you the kind of information you want to hear or see because you want it today. If you haven't planned for it about seven years ago, it probably isn't going to happen,
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We need to have this surveillance, and if there's a way we can do it differently in ways that are less offensive to some people, that might be a matter worth discussing.