Porter Goss Vital Quotations

No agency has greater skill and experience in this difficult, complex, and utterly vital discipline of intelligence,

This agency does not do torture. Torture does not work. We use lawful capabilities to collect vital information, and we do it in a variety of unique and innovative ways, all of which are legal and none of which are torture.

This agency does not do torture, ... Torture does not work. We use lawful capabilities to collect vital information, and we do it in a variety of unique and innovative ways, all of which are legal and none of which are torture.

if the president determines that such operations are vital to the protection of the United States or its citizens from terrorist attack.