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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activity airplane cell certain electronic expect might nuclear people ready test warming
If you see an up-tic of electronic activity in a certain area, ... you might expect that something is happening. It might be a nuclear test, it might be conversations on cell phones, it might be people warming airplane engines, it might be people getting ready to test rockets.
against damage experts given highly ignore information national president security sensitive technical
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?
reading terrorist
I am about (a) terrorist reading a top-secret report.
ambassador community continuing create critical hayden intelligence news relationships step strengthen welcome
The nominations of Ambassador Negroponte and Gen. Hayden are welcome news and a critical step in continuing to strengthen our intelligence community and to create even better coordinated working relationships and communications between the agencies,
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They very definitely would like to find out all our secrets so they could copy them and take advantage of them, either in terms of their national security, the modernization of the army -- the PLA -- or in terms of competition in the marketplace,
activities extremely lead successful
This is just extremely important and it's going to lead to other very successful activities very shortly, I'm sure.
behind curve fix languages looking people speak start today ways
The need is obvious, ... As we start out today to do our job, we start out a little behind the curve because not enough people speak the languages we need. So we're looking for ways to fix that.
broken found stunning
I've got to tell you, it was a broken system, ... It was one of the things I found most stunning when I got here.
amazed asked five hats jobs
The jobs I'm being asked to do, the five hats that I wear, are too much for this mortal. I'm a little amazed at the workload.
alone capture eliminate terror threat
Their capture alone would not be enough to eliminate the terror threat to the U.S.,
advised asks coming concern congress leak particular states united
asks for an investigation of those leaks, with particular concern that if there is any inappropriate leak coming from the United States Congress that we be so advised so we may take appropriate action.
aware believes colleagues congress director employees former handled house improve left national officials question restore turmoil white
The turmoil has left some employees shaken and has prompted former colleagues in Congress to question how Goss intends to improve the agency's capabilities and restore morale. The White House is aware of the problems, administration officials said, and believes they are being handled by the director of national intelligence, who now oversees the agency.
jobs today cia
I couldn't get a job with CIA today. I am not qualified.
iraq causes conflict
The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists.