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'Intelligence' chief, eh?
Aug. 13th, 2004 09:27 pmIt seems Porter Goss, the new chief of the CIA, doubts his own credentials.
In his own words, speaking to everybody's favourite spotlight-seeker: "I don't have the language skills. I, you know, my language skills were romance languages and stuff. We're looking for Arabists today. I don't have the cultural background probably. And I certainly don't have the technical skills, uh, as my children remind me every day, 'Dad you got to get better on your computer.' So, the things that you need to have, I don't have."
And, yeah, those are serious shortcomings. But perhaps more telling is the one he didn't include in the list: would you want your intelligence services run by somebody who can be suckered into delivering a list of his own professional adequacies to the opposition's propaganda arm, on camera?
In his own words, speaking to everybody's favourite spotlight-seeker: "I don't have the language skills. I, you know, my language skills were romance languages and stuff. We're looking for Arabists today. I don't have the cultural background probably. And I certainly don't have the technical skills, uh, as my children remind me every day, 'Dad you got to get better on your computer.' So, the things that you need to have, I don't have."
And, yeah, those are serious shortcomings. But perhaps more telling is the one he didn't include in the list: would you want your intelligence services run by somebody who can be suckered into delivering a list of his own professional adequacies to the opposition's propaganda arm, on camera?
