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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An enemy that's working in an amorphous network that doesn't have to worry about a bunch of regulations, chain of command, rule of law or anything else has got a huge advantage over a stultified, slow-moving, bureaucratic, by-the-book organization,
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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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The only thing that this uproar does is give aid and comfort to the enemy and I don't think there's anybody who wants to give aid and comfort to the terrorists,.
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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 cannot afford to make changes blindly, or in unnecessary haste,
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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.
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We are going to be in places people can't even imagine,
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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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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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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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My understanding is that the last, absolute inventory that was taken -- that surely established where these hard drives were -- was part of the Y2K survey, which would be at the beginning of the year.
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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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China has secrets they're trying to keep from the eyes of the world,