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...
Porter Goss quotes about
air fact fly forms fun home intelligence lawful legal less matter might missions national offensive protect reason risk space worth
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.
couple exactly intelligence material people talking
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.
human intelligence-and-intellectuals lead role
reaffirms our role as the lead for human intelligence.
case community information intelligence job share talk unless
In the intelligence community, everyone does his job and you don't share the information unless there is a need to know. This could be a case where the right compartments didn't talk to each other.
authority cia community entire intelligence relating standards
CIA will have the authority to set standards for the entire intelligence community on things relating to (human espionage),
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,
assessment capability greater increased since words
Our assessment is they have a greater capability than that assessment, ... In other words, it has increased since then.
confidence expression grant represents trust
represents a grant of trust and an expression of confidence in the CIA.
aggressive aspects call fit hard looking means overseas people quality recruiting requires sacrifice specific
there are some very hard aspects of this that take longer. We are an overseas organization. We are an organization that requires what I would call sacrifice of quality of life. ... We are looking for specific people that we think will fit our needs. And that means an aggressive recruiting effort.
gives hear information planned satellite seven
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,
group people
that any one person or group of people could have prevented 9/11.
clearly exactly focus gives great obviously success totally
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.
announcing fact five forward four problem step though
The fact that he is now aboard and announcing and saying, 'Gee we have a problem with terrorism,' is a big step forward -- even though it comes about four or five years late,
less matter might offensive ways worth
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.