CIA director defends intelligence, methods

[ECH1969]

WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss, saying his agency struggles to penetrate terrorist sanctuaries overseas, insists that "we know more than we're able to say publicly" about Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

In a rare television interview, Goss defended the CIA's track record, which has been tarnished by allegations ranging from erroneous or hyped intelligence leading to the war in Iraq to reports the agency runs secret prisons abroad for terrorism suspects and uses harsh interrogation techniques amounting to torture.

"What we do does not come close to torture," Goss said, though he declined to elaborate on the agency's interrogation techniques.

Al Qaida leaders Bin Laden and al-Zarqawi haven't been found "primarily because they don't want us to find them and they're going to great lengths to make sure we don't find them," Goss said in the interview broadcast Tuesday on ABC's "Good Morning America." "We're applying a lot of efforts to find out where they are." He insisted the CIA knows "a good deal more" about the men "than we're able to say publicly."

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/politics/13283147.htm

[Al-CIAda]

1. Was Bush Spy Pick on Agency Hit Team?

Aug 24 2004-Venice,FL.
by Daniel Hopsicker

THE MAN PICKED by President George W Bush to head America’s Central Intelligence Agency is even more of an intelligence insider than has so far been revealed...

Although membership in a secret society would seem to compromise a bit anyone being considered to lead an Agency which is itself a secret society, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Republican Porter J Goss of Sanibel Island Florida is a member of the secret society “Book & Snake” at Yale.

President George W Bush's nominee to head the nation's flagship intelligence agency also appears to be visible in a photograph taken in 1963 in a Mexico City nightclub of members of the CIA’s secret assassination squad known as “Operation Forty."

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http://www.madcowprod.com/mc6512004.html

[sofa king]

2. Did Karl and Scooter write Porter's script this time?

[ovidsen]

3. What a piece of fluff

I watched the GMA "Live from Langley" broadcast this morning. ABC must have been paid to run this infomercial.

We learned that the CIA can actually watch Al Jazeera live and take closeup snapshots via satellite of almost anyplace(the better to bomb you, my pretty!). I was shocked. Simply shocked.

And the "dead crop" demonstration was about as cutting edge as an Ian Fleming novel.

[mmonk]

4. This continues the canard

the president was handed bogus intelligence that he acted on. In a country with a free press, its citizens would know about the OSP but since we no longer have a fourth estate, this dictatorship can continue to fool its "believers". America is dead and we are letting it happen though I don't know how a people can change a dictatorship.

[Lost4words]

5. Hey Goss, go F* yourself!

[OKthatsIT]

6. "we know more than we're able to say publicly"

OMG, what an understatement!

[sabra]

7. CIA chief defends agency over bin Laden hunt (know 'a good deal more')

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/29/cia.alqaeda.ap/index.html

CIA chief defends agency over bin Laden hunt
Goss: 'We know more than we can say'

WASHINGTON (AP) -- CIA Director Porter Goss, saying his agency struggles to penetrate terrorist sanctuaries overseas, insists that "we know more than we're able to say publicly" about Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

...

"What we do does not come close to torture," Goss said, though he declined to elaborate on the agency's interrogation techniques.

Al Qaida leaders Bin Laden and al-Zarqawi haven't been found "primarily because they don't want us to find them and they're going to great lengths to make sure we don't find them," Goss said in the interview broadcast Tuesday on ABC's "Good Morning America."

"We're applying a lot of efforts to find out where they are." He insisted the CIA knows "a good deal more" about the men "than we're able to say publicly."

[spooked911]

8. What a load of manure. Ugh.

[superconnected]

9. They didn't say it but it's to make America think the IRAQ war was founded

[regnaD kciN]

10. Oh, really...?

Al Qaida leaders Bin Laden and al-Zarqawi haven't been found "primarily because they don't want us to find them and they're going to great lengths to make sure we don't find them."

How terribly unsporting of them! :eyes: