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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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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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.
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We've got to have some patience ... It's a tough job,
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Having watched the pride of some countries in acquiring the world-stage status of having nuclear weapons -- and what that has meant for nationalism and leadership ... it becomes almost a piece of the holy grail for a small country that otherwise might be victimized living in a dangerous neighborhood,