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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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.
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Our intelligence -- the reason we have it in many forms around the world is to protect Americans at home and abroad, ... We do not fly legal lawful air missions in international space for the fun of it. We do it for our national security. Yes, there is, I suppose, some risk to all of this, but the fact of the matter is we need to have this surveillance. If there is a way we can do it differently that's less offensive to some people, then that might be a matter worth discussing.
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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.
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He's got something that (agency heads) don't have, and that is immediate access to the president if the president wants to get this job done. And believe me, the presidential cache will go a long way on this one.
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Our assessment is they have a greater capability than that assessment, ... In other words, it has increased since then.
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CIA will have the authority to set standards for the entire intelligence community on things relating to (human espionage),
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This has nothing to do whatsoever with treatment of prisoners ... I'm not interested in any of that.
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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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reaffirms our role as the lead for human intelligence.
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if the president determines that such operations are vital to the protection of the United States or its citizens from terrorist attack.
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China has secrets they're trying to keep from the eyes of the world,
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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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After great consideration of this report and its conclusions, I will not convene an accountability board to judge the performances of any individual CIA officers,
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no reason now, nor do we foresee any in the normal course of events in the future, why Newt Gingrich would be ineligible to serve as Speaker.