Jerry Brown: “the committee's report recognizes these things and lays them out specifically and then asks for more money. This is…”

“the committee's report recognizes these things and lays them out specifically and then asks for more money. This is ridiculous. If we are getting inadequate intelligence and intelligence analysis today, why reward that with more money? Maybe it would be a healthy lesson if we would cut them 5 percent or 10 percent. We have been doing this with another agency that I am very well acquainted with, NASA, for the last several years. I regretted it. I hated it, because I felt that NASA was doing a good job and producing huge benefits to the American people through the technology it developed and sponsored. But they survived it, and they are doing a better job today. The landing of a rover on Mars, for example, was done at half the cost that we thought it would be done a few years ago, because we have found that we can do things faster, cheaper, and better. Why cannot the CIA and the other intelligence agencies live with that same kind of discipline? I think they could. I think it would be good for them. The intelligence would be better. The country would be better served. We could say that we are enhancing the security of this country and our understanding of the rest of the world and saving money at the same time. That is what we should be trying to do. We are doing it in every other area, and I think it is time we applied it to the intelligence agencies.”