James Woolsey
James Woolsey
Robert James Woolsey Jr.is a national security and energy specialist and former Director of Central Intelligence who headed the Central Intelligence Agency from February 5, 1993 until January 10, 1995. A lawyer by training and trade, he held a variety of government positions in the 1970s and 1980s, including as Under Secretary of the Navy from 1977 to 1979, and was involved in treaty negotiations with the Soviet Union for five years in the 1980s. His career also included time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth21 September 1941
CountryUnited States of America
This was a sophisticated operation, ... They should start looking into the ownership of that boat that pulled alongside and blew up -- where it came from, what happened to the information after it arrived in Aden that the Cole was going to refuel.
The problem is that after him, we don't know who we're going to get.
It has to be looked at in the context of whether this interim agreement is a valuable agreement and if releasing Pollard ... contributes to it. That's a presidential decision. That's why the president makes the big bucks.
It's as if we were fighting with dragon for some 45 years and slew the dragon and then found ourselves in a jungle full of a number of poisonous snakes.
As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.
As we move toward a new Middle East, ... over the years and, I think, over the decades to come ... we will make a lot of people very nervous.
They are looking hard for technology to get leverage with their conventional forces and to move more quickly than they have been able to in the past into the world of computers, electronics and so on.
You can't expect the insurance industry to do something out of the goodness of its heart. But you might be able to combine incentives ... and regulation in a way that still lets the market work.
a lot harder to keep track of than the dragon ever was.
If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.
For anyone who believes that this is purely a commercial undertaking, unrelated to a national strategy of domination of energy markets and of the western Pacific, I would suggest that that view is extraordinarily naive.
Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn't have oil to the degree that the Saudis do. I think they and other producing states, almost all of whom, except Norway and Canada, are dictatorships or autocratic systems, have thrown their weight around because of oil.
American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.