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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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 cannot afford to make changes blindly, or in unnecessary haste,
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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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we are a superpower, but we're not an aggressive superpower.
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I couldn't get a job with CIA today. I am not qualified.
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Unilateral operations will return to be part of the governing paradigm for the CIA,
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We know that Chinese officials chose to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in the 1996 re-election of the Clinton administration. What we don't know is what they expected to gain from that investment,
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We are developing new and creative ways to get more and more of our officers out of Washington,
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To be cut out at the eleventh hour is annoying, and it's certainly not helpful,
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We are definitely going to be using new cover arrangements overseas, because we have to,
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We've got to have some patience ... It's a tough job,
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would send the wrong message to our junior officers about taking risks, whether it be an operation in the field or being assigned to a hot topic at headquarters.