Political Quotes

“Let me again thank the ranking member and the chairman. Let me also acknowledge the very fine men and women that work in our intelligence community in the United States and around the world. I would like to thank the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for their efforts to include the Jackson Lee amendment in the en bloc amendments and thank them for working with my staff in a very cooperative manner. The Jackson Lee amendment seeks greater transparency to Congress on the people the Nation relies upon to perform certain types of work for the intelligence community. The Jackson Lee amendment requires the Director of the Office of National Intelligence to conduct an assessment of the reliance of intelligence activities on contractors to support government objectives, including an assessment of contractors performing intelligence activities, which would include intelligence analysis. This complements the underlying bill, because the underlying bill has determined to assess the utilization and reduce the number of private contractors. In a Time article dated Monday, July 19, 2010, a comment says: Explosion of contractors in the intelligence community. And that has been the case. It is important that we recognize that contractors can be useful. But like the President stated publicly on August 26, 2013: It is important that we have so many extraordinarily capable folks in our military and our government who can do this--and probably do it cheaper.…”