Porter Goss: “No one in this House, for the last 10 years, has done more for the intelligence community, for the people who work in…”

“No one in this House, for the last 10 years, has done more for the intelligence community, for the people who work in the intelligence community than the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss). No one has. As a former CIA agent, he came to the House with the kind of experience that I think most of us would relish, and he took it to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and has done an extraordinary job. Now, does anybody believe that somebody like Porter Goss is going to sell short the intelligence community; is going to sell short the men and women who work in dark places in the world? It is not even believable. He has been working at it for 10 years as a member of the committee, 8 years as the chairman, and he served as an officer of the CIA. This is nonsense for you to be coming to the floor trying to persuade people, the American people or Members of the House, that the chairman of the committee is going to sell short the CIA. Baloney. Do not believe it. If you are watching this on C-SPAN, do not believe it. This guy has been committed to this stuff his whole life.”