In the intelligence community, everyone does his job and you don't share the information unless there is a need to know. This could be a case where the right compartments didn't talk to each other.
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The bottom line is, I want you to continue to do what you do best - provide our country with close-in access to the plans and intentions of its enemies and provide decision makers with the information they need to make the tough decisions.Porter Goss
We cannot afford to make changes blindly, or in unnecessary haste,
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Singling out these individuals would send the wrong message to our junior officers about taking risks,
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We know that Chinese officials chose to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in the 1996 re-election of the Clinton administration. What we don't know is what they expected to gain from that investment,
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They very definitely would like to find out all our secrets so they could copy them and take advantage of them, either in terms of their national security, the modernization of the army -- the PLA -- or in terms of competition in the marketplace,
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The hallmark of our country is decency, democracy, freedom and so forth. The other guys don't, ... But we have to maintain our standards.
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