Porter Goss

Without his good influence, today's House of Representatives appears diminished.

I would like to report back to you that I believe the agency is on a very even keel. Sailing well.

I have an excellent idea of where he is.

It becomes almost a piece of the Holy Grail for a small country that otherwise might be victimized, living in a dangerous neighborhood, to have a nuclear weapon.

It may be only a matter of time before al Qaeda or other group attempts to use chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons. We must focus on that.

Al Qaeda is intent on finding ways to circumvent U.S. security enhancements to strike Americans in the homeland.

I rise in support, and associate myself with a distinguished member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence who knows his stuff. All-source intelligence sometimes gets confused with open-source intelligence. I think it is…

I actually urge support of this. When something bad is going to happen, we want to make sure that it is the bad guys that get us and not the good guys. And we are concerned that we have not, in our own country, focused enough on that…

We are going to be on our guard. It's going to make it harder for the terrorists but wherever they stick their heads up they know we're going to be ready to come and get them.

I don't think he will willingly or knowingly or directly, but I think in the process of professional interrogation there's a very good chance that we will get information from him.

There are all kinds of methods of professional interrogation, of ways to persuade people, incentivize people, motivate people.

There are all kinds of methods of professional interrogation, of ways to persuade people, incentivize people, motivate people.

With this capture, many lingering questions will be answered, but we cannot forget that Saddam has engaged in deceit and deception for decades.

I too would like to congratulate my ranking member and the members of the staff on both sides of the aisle. Normally I would name all those staff. This year I am just going to point to one individual who really was the architect of the…

I well understand the purpose of the gentlewoman's amendment, and what I am trying to say and outline for her is that dealing with the United Nations with intelligence is an extraordinarily complex issue, and I do not think there is a…

There are two reasons why this would be a difficult task to do publicly, and I would not make that broad a commitment. The first is that much of the material that the gentleman is talking about is probably classified if the gentleman is…

Certainly we will publicly not commit to that. We will publicly commit to where the review of the information takes us. We have a bipartisan agreement on that. We have 20 able members who are members of good judgment and good sense who…

I think we all share the desire to make as much of this known as possible to the public. We want the public to understand how good intelligence is and how good it is not. Frankly, I want to do everything I can to make the American people…

I want to simply say that I know of the gentleman's work on behalf of the support for the men and women in our intelligence community. I think he has it exactly right on this question of the borders. I certainly accept this amendment as…

I do not think this country realizes how lucky we are to have people like the gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis), the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young), the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Murtha), and the gentleman from Wisconsin…

I also definitely look forward to continuing to work closely with the gentleman and his committee to ensure that the money in this bill and all future intelligence funding is utilized to strengthen and improve our intelligence…

I notice that there happen to be four of us here because of the chairman's leadership I think on this side, but this is strictly a bipartisan effort. We have colleagues on the other side of the aisle too, and they are equal players and…

I believe that those are somewhat complicated pages that were very carefully negotiated in the conference report and certainly to get them exactly correct, they have not been lost, actually if the gentleman has them, he has found them.

As the gentleman knows, as I stated in conference, as I stated earlier, and as I would state again, I believe the provisions would have improved greatly the management and performance of the NRO's launch program. I, too, am extremely…