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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. - Porter Goss Quotes

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.

The hallmark of our country is decency, democracy, freedom and so forth. The other guys don't, ... But we have to maintain our standards. - Porter Goss Quotes

The hallmark of our country is decency, democracy, freedom and so forth. The other guys don't, ... But we have to maintain our standards.

The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists. - Porter Goss Quotes

The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists.

American Publicservant Conflict

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, - Porter Goss Quotes

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,

There is a huge amount of misinformation swirling about on the subject of detainees. That would include alleged activities of this agency, - Porter Goss Quotes

There is a huge amount of misinformation swirling about on the subject of detainees. That would include alleged activities of this agency,

This was long overdue, because as the last DCI, I can say that the job had become frankly too big for one person, - Porter Goss Quotes

This was long overdue, because as the last DCI, I can say that the job had become frankly too big for one person,

Intelligence-related issues have become the fodder of partisan food fights and turf power skirmishes. All the while, the demand for our services and products against a ruthless and unconventional enemy has expanded geometrically, and we are expected to deliver instantly, - Porter Goss Quotes

Intelligence-related issues have become the fodder of partisan food fights and turf power skirmishes. All the while, the demand for our services and products against a ruthless and unconventional enemy has expanded geometrically, and we are expected to deliver instantly,

Food

Their capture alone would not be enough to eliminate the terror threat to the U.S., - Porter Goss Quotes

Their capture alone would not be enough to eliminate the terror threat to the U.S.,

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. - Porter Goss Quotes

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.

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. - Porter Goss Quotes

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.

I think our safeguards are in place and are working, - Porter Goss Quotes

I think our safeguards are in place and are working,

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. - Porter Goss Quotes

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.

Field

Singling out these individuals would send the wrong message to our junior officers about taking risks, - Porter Goss Quotes

Singling out these individuals would send the wrong message to our junior officers about taking risks,

To be cut out at the eleventh hour is annoying, and it's certainly not helpful, - Porter Goss Quotes

To be cut out at the eleventh hour is annoying, and it's certainly not helpful,

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. - Porter Goss Quotes

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.

The CIA credo is that the U.S. must always have the place of primacy among our interests, - Porter Goss Quotes

The CIA credo is that the U.S. must always have the place of primacy among our interests,

CIA

Dysfunctional organizations do not perform the way the Directorate of Operations performed in Afghanistan and in support of the military in Iraq before and after the conflict, - Porter Goss Quotes

Dysfunctional organizations do not perform the way the Directorate of Operations performed in Afghanistan and in support of the military in Iraq before and after the conflict,

CIA will have the authority to set standards for the entire intelligence community on things relating to (human espionage), - Porter Goss Quotes

CIA will have the authority to set standards for the entire intelligence community on things relating to (human espionage),

One of the things frankly we have to do is demystify (the CIA) a little bit, ... You are not going to be James Bond if you sign up and five years later you're going to be driving an Aston Martin with a beautiful young lady at your side on the Riviera. You might be, but I'm not aware of that program yet. - Porter Goss Quotes

One of the things frankly we have to do is demystify (the CIA) a little bit, ... You are not going to be James Bond if you sign up and five years later you're going to be driving an Aston Martin with a beautiful young lady at your side on the Riviera. You might be, but I'm not aware of that program yet.

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, - Porter Goss Quotes

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,

What we do does not come close to torture, - Porter Goss Quotes

What we do does not come close to torture,

We are definitely going to be using new cover arrangements overseas, because we have to, - Porter Goss Quotes

We are definitely going to be using new cover arrangements overseas, because we have to,

At the Central Intelligence Agency, we are more than holding our own in the global war on terrorism, but we are at risk of losing a key battle: the battle to protect our classified information. - Porter Goss Quotes

At the Central Intelligence Agency, we are more than holding our own in the global war on terrorism, but we are at risk of losing a key battle: the battle to protect our classified information.

We cannot afford to make changes blindly, or in unnecessary haste, - Porter Goss Quotes

We cannot afford to make changes blindly, or in unnecessary haste,

No agency has greater skill and experience in this difficult, complex, and utterly vital discipline of intelligence, - Porter Goss Quotes

No agency has greater skill and experience in this difficult, complex, and utterly vital discipline of intelligence,

the suspicion that maybe people are covering it up. - Porter Goss Quotes

the suspicion that maybe people are covering it up.

China has secrets they're trying to keep from the eyes of the world, - Porter Goss Quotes

China has secrets they're trying to keep from the eyes of the world,

It would be a huge embarrassment for us not to discuss the Kosovo situation. - Porter Goss Quotes

It would be a huge embarrassment for us not to discuss the Kosovo situation.

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. - Porter Goss Quotes

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.

So in the summer of 1864, Ebenezer prepares to go to war and his wife happens to be confined to bed. She has just delivered a child and it was a very difficult delivery and she's not fit to run the plantation--and isn't going to be for quite a while. So the management of Somerset Plantation devolves on the oldest child, 16-year-old Anne Carter - Porter Goss Quotes

So in the summer of 1864, Ebenezer prepares to go to war and his wife happens to be confined to bed. She has just delivered a child and it was a very difficult delivery and she's not fit to run the plantation--and isn't going to be for quite a while. So the management of Somerset Plantation devolves on the oldest child, 16-year-old Anne Carter

War

represents a grant of trust and an expression of confidence in the CIA. - Porter Goss Quotes

represents a grant of trust and an expression of confidence in the CIA.

if the president determines that such operations are vital to the protection of the United States or its citizens from terrorist attack. - Porter Goss Quotes

if the president determines that such operations are vital to the protection of the United States or its citizens from terrorist attack.

This agency does not do torture. Torture does not work. We use lawful capabilities to collect vital information, and we do it in a variety of unique and innovative ways, all of which are legal and none of which are torture. - Porter Goss Quotes

This agency does not do torture. Torture does not work. We use lawful capabilities to collect vital information, and we do it in a variety of unique and innovative ways, all of which are legal and none of which are torture.

This agency does not do torture. Torture does not work, - Porter Goss Quotes

This agency does not do torture. Torture does not work,

Work

So we have to, within the law and within all the requirements of our professional ethics in this profession, develop agility. And that means putting a lot of judgment in the hands of individuals overseas. - Porter Goss Quotes

So we have to, within the law and within all the requirements of our professional ethics in this profession, develop agility. And that means putting a lot of judgment in the hands of individuals overseas.

I am about (a) terrorist reading a top-secret report. - Porter Goss Quotes

I am about (a) terrorist reading a top-secret report.

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. - Porter Goss Quotes

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.

we are maybe at the 5 or 10% level. - Porter Goss Quotes

we are maybe at the 5 or 10% level.

This agency does not do torture, ... Torture does not work. We use lawful capabilities to collect vital information, and we do it in a variety of unique and innovative ways, all of which are legal and none of which are torture. - Porter Goss Quotes

This agency does not do torture, ... Torture does not work. We use lawful capabilities to collect vital information, and we do it in a variety of unique and innovative ways, all of which are legal and none of which are torture.

We are developing new and creative ways to get more and more of our officers out of Washington. We do not serve our policy-makers if we are not in the places that they need us to be today and are not reporting from places they don't expect us to be -- but where they may need us to be tomorrow. - Porter Goss Quotes

We are developing new and creative ways to get more and more of our officers out of Washington. We do not serve our policy-makers if we are not in the places that they need us to be today and are not reporting from places they don't expect us to be -- but where they may need us to be tomorrow.

This has nothing to do whatsoever with treatment of prisoners ... I'm not interested in any of that. - Porter Goss Quotes

This has nothing to do whatsoever with treatment of prisoners ... I'm not interested in any of that.

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. - Porter Goss Quotes

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.

Jobs

Intelligence-related issues have become the fodder of partisan food fights and turf power skirmishes, ... All the while, the demand for our services and products against a ruthless and unconventional enemy has expended geometrically, and we are expected to deliver instantly. - Porter Goss Quotes

Intelligence-related issues have become the fodder of partisan food fights and turf power skirmishes, ... All the while, the demand for our services and products against a ruthless and unconventional enemy has expended geometrically, and we are expected to deliver instantly.

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, - Porter Goss Quotes

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,

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, - Porter Goss Quotes

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,

News

Dysfunctional organizations do not take down or eliminate the most dangerous proliferators in the world ... nor do they aid in the disarmament of a country like Libya. - Porter Goss Quotes

Dysfunctional organizations do not take down or eliminate the most dangerous proliferators in the world ... nor do they aid in the disarmament of a country like Libya.

An enemy that's working in an amorphous network that doesn't have to worry about a bunch of regulations, chain of command, rule of law or anything else has got a huge advantage over a stultified, slow-moving, bureaucratic, by-the-book organization, - Porter Goss Quotes

An enemy that's working in an amorphous network that doesn't have to worry about a bunch of regulations, chain of command, rule of law or anything else has got a huge advantage over a stultified, slow-moving, bureaucratic, by-the-book organization,

Worry

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. - Porter Goss Quotes

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.

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. - Porter Goss Quotes

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.

We've got to have some patience ... It's a tough job, - Porter Goss Quotes

We've got to have some patience ... It's a tough job,

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