Porter Goss Quotes
The only thing that this uproar does is give aid and comfort to the enemy and I don't think there's anybody who wants to give aid and comfort to the terrorists.
United States, Congress. Congressional Record. Government Printing Office, 2004.
After September 11, the Department of Homeland Security was formed. The new department combined a host of other disparate departments and organizations and one result was that threats and terrorist targets were so broadly defined with a paucity of specific intelligence that almost everything was a target so that nothing could receive more security and protection than anything else.
The Bush administration were busy making their appointments and setting some domestic priorities. In 4 months 9-11 would make them wish that they had taken these warnings more seriously. See {637530}.
Porter Johnston Goss is an American politician and government official who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 until 2004, when he became the last Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and the first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency following the passage of the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, which abolished the DCI position and replaced it with the Director of National Intelligence on April 21, 2005.