They know more than they can say about Bin Laden

[alezrik]

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

Tuesday, November 29, 2005; Posted: 10:21 a.m. EST (15:21 GMT)


CIA Director Porter Goss defended his agency in a rare television interview.


In a rare television interview, Goss defended the CIA's track record, tarnished by allegations ranging from erroneous or hyped intelligence to reports of secret prisons and 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."

Goss said one of the hardest parts of the CIA's mission is to "penetrate into some of the sanctuary areas" -- whether harsh terrain or "at the heart of a city, in a ghetto or slum area where people don't regularly go."

"Knowing how to find those places and getting to penetrate them is going to be the hardest part of this business," he said.

Even with the CIA's mistakes, Goss said, the agency is "the gold standard by any measure" in terms of human intelligence.

"We don't get it right every time," he said, "but I don't think there's anybody who could even come close."

Reports have surfaced recently that the CIA runs secret prisons in Europe for detaining and interrogating suspects. The U.S. has not confirmed those reports, and Goss did not address them directly.

"We're fighting a war on terror," he said in response to a question about the prisons. "We're doing quite well. Inevitably, we're going to have to capture some terrorists and inevitably they're going to have to have some due process. It's going to be done lawfully."

The interview was taped inside the operations room at the agency's headquarters in suburban Langley, Virginia. A red light flashed throughout the interview, indicating there was someone in the room who did not have a security clearance -- the interviewer, ABC's Charles Gibson.

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I wonder if they 'revitalized' project mkultra as a form of 'non torture'

[Captain Insano]

hahah whatever.

The CIA along with the rest of our gov't are incompetant assholes.

[Captain Insano]

Here's something I know a lot about...

They haven't caught the mutherfucker yet so obviously they don't know a whole hell of a lot worth a damn now do they?!

[Durck]

Here's something I know a lot about...

They haven't caught the mutherfucker yet so obviously they don't know a whole hell of a lot worth a damn now do they?!

Bet they know more than you do.

-Duck

[Lyion]

In the lands of midgets and sparse medical clinics, they can't find a 6'5" heavily diabetic very noticeable man.

Maybe we need to send Valerie Plame after him.

[Tikker]

They should just send MacGyver

he could get it done in 22 mins

[Captain Insano]

Here's something I know a lot about...

They haven't caught the mutherfucker yet so obviously they don't know a whole hell of a lot worth a damn now do they?!

Bet they know more than you do.

-Duck

I doubt it... you ever worked for the government? It's like watching 20 blind midgets with down syndrome try to catch a one legged ostrich.

[Lyion]

They should just send MacGyver

he could get it done in 22 mins

With a piece of string and a can opener.

[Tossica]

With a piece of string and a can opener.

and a piece of chewing gum.

[brinstar]

if you can see chuck norris, he already sees you

if you can't see chuck norris, you are moments from death

[Harrison]

I just about pissed myself from that...thanks.

[kaharthemad]

They should just send MacGyver

he could get it done in 22 mins

actually 42 minutes w/o commercials for tampons and cheese curls.. it was a 1 hour show.

[Phlegm]

Of course the CIA knew where Bin Laden is. They dont want to capture him because right now they are getting a shit load of capital from Bush to find him. They dont want to end the cash flow.