Porter Goss: “I wish that the bipartisanship that has been talked about would have been manifested in the vote that we all cast around…”

“I wish that the bipartisanship that has been talked about would have been manifested in the vote that we all cast around here to send our troops the money that they need to do the job that they are doing. It is great to talk about bipartisanship, and it is great to say that we all have it, but the truth is when it came time to give the resources that are needed in Iraq, some people were not there. Some people in the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence were not there. So I think we need to examine the idea of bipartisan and what it really means. The other comment I want to make is this: I think the instruction is fine. We all know it is probably a little bit meaningless because most instructions are, but the kind of words that have been used around here in a way, the way that I see it, in a way to degrade people who work in the intelligence community, I think is a little bit despicable.”