Porter Goss

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 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…

we in Florida are deeply troubled by the OCS inventory language currently under consideration in the energy bill conference. This language was already firmly rejected once by this body, and I believe we should make it well known that we…

I thank the gentleman for an opportunity to speak on behalf of a project very important to motorists, to commerce, and to the well-being of millions of residents and visitors to southwest Florida. As a great number of my colleagues and…

I am pleased to contribute to this evening's Special Order commemorating the third anniversary of Plan Colombia. As Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, I wanted to discuss the significant and measurable…

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 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 point out two things, and they are meant to be constructive. First of all, it is certainly true everybody in the United States counts on it being true and it is true that the Vice President and the President are responsible for…

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…

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…

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…

There is no question about one thing and that is that MTOPS is no longer a viable template to use as the decision-driver to control exports of high-performance computers. We, I think, all agree on that. We have economic and security…

Mr. Chairman, we are living in a world that we all know has been transformed very dramatically by the threat of rogue states, terrorist organizations, and Lord knows we are definitely aware of it today. There are new costs involved in…

I am obviously here to join my colleagues in honoring the memory of those who died in the terrorist attacks of a year ago this day and to underscore with gratitude the amazing valor displayed by them. I am sure every American remembers…

I rise this evening to briefly summarize the bipartisan recommendations of the Intelligence Committee on title 2 of H.R. 5005. Before I offer the committee's recommendation, let me give you an idea of why the committee took its action. If…

I have followed the debate with great interest tonight, and have heard my amendment seriously mischaracterized. I would like to point out that the amendment merely is a safeguard for America and American national security. If everything is…

there exists a nation that for over 40 years has repeatedly declared its hostile intentions towards the United States of America and American citizens. It has consistently allied itself with our enemies, it has sought nuclear weapons on…

I wanted to take just a second to briefly thank publicly the chairman of the subcommittee and the ranking member, the vice chairman of the committee, for doing extraordinary work on behalf of our Nation on the subject of terrorism and…

in the past, usually during consideration of the Intelligence budget, I have risen before this body and mentioned the superb and thoroughly knowledgeable staff that resides in the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, of which we are…

As we continue to defend democracy and freedom, which is what this Nation is about today, and the battle in the war against terrorism within our own borders, it is important to remember that we are not alone. We are not the only country…

I am submitting my speech that I gave, Mr. Speaker, at the Honorable Gerald Solomon's funeral. Were I a fully finished disciple of Jerry Solomon I would now set out right here on the lectern a big accordion file with ``Solomon'' written…

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…