Search Details

Word: gosse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...enjoyed a drink. Fearing that deskbound managers would veto the contact, the spook was thrilled to be told "to use his instincts, be smart and see" what develops. The episode, related to TIME by someone close to the agency, is meant to illustrate how, a year into Director Porter Goss's tenure, the CIA is inching back to the risk-taking culture that helped it share credit for winning the cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recharging The CIA | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

Knocked from its perch as the chief U.S. intelligence agency when Congress created the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the CIA is focusing on the critical task of planting human spies. President Bush told Goss a year ago to hire 50% more spooks "as soon as feasible." Sources say Goss's plan is to go back to basics: hide more spies posing, for example, as cultural or economic attach�s in embassy-based CIA stations, and reopen stations that closed when the cold war ended. Camp Peary, the CIA's secret training center in eastern Virginia, runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recharging The CIA | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

...Goss, in an interview at agency headquarters in June, said he is giving his spies more autonomy in the field and backing them up--whenever possible--if something goes wrong. "We have tried to reduce the number of 'May I, Mother?' requests and let you make the decisions out there," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recharging The CIA | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

...wanted from myself, and, I believe, Porter also, was to know how could as much information as possible be released publicly as soon as possible." What's more, Schiff says he first heard of the letter when an aide to a member of the Republican House leadership read him Goss's handwritten text over the phone and asked if he would join in signing it. Paxon insisted that Schiff and Goss had acted "on their own initiative" but when asked whether he had urged them to release information to House Republicans, declined to elaborate on what he said were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSE SQUEAKER | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

Even as Gingrich was dialing for votes, the letter came from Goss and Schiff, the G.O.P. members of the ethics subcommittee. For Republicans looking for a life preserver, it was just that. But the note, as well as press reports that the subcommittee had already decided on a reprimand for Gingrich, led investigator Cole to issue an angry statement reminding everyone that "the ethics rules do not permit public comment on the work of the committee until we are convened in an open session." All the same, Schiff insists he did nothing improper. "The letter may be unusual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSE SQUEAKER | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

Previous | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | Next