amy: that was porter goss, the former director of the cia. wells dixon his response? also have a lot of questions i would like to ask people who were involved in the torture program. one of those questions is, why was majid khan raped? in response to the senate report, the cia offers no justification and we heard earlier their legal architect of the torture program said that wasn't authorized. so why did it happen? i do want to know the answer to that. the notion the report was incomplete or that it is a partisan hack job, that it wasn't well done -- those are talking points. and the only people who are making those talking points are people who were actually implicated by the report. one of the really important aspects of the information that we got declassified concerning majid khan is that it corroborates a lot of what is in the report. not only does it discuss his torture that exceeded what is disclosed in the report, but it also corroborates a lot of things in their -- the sexual assaults, for example, detainees being subjected to torture methods that are indisti

porter goss might qualify or eddie bowlen, a person i worked for in the early stages.encies. for a while, we engage in cheerleading. a third category or four on my list is what i call the lemon sucker and i take this from bill clinton who once said all economists are lemon suckers. what he meant is they would come into the oval office and they would have nothing but bad news. the lemon suckers are those who see no value whatsoever in the intelligence community and i think a little of daniel patrick moynihan, all of us admire in many ways, he was over the top when it came to his criticism of the cia and actually wanted to close that place down if you recall. finally, here's the model that i try to espouse, the guardian, and this is a person who combines some skepticism that one might find in the lemon sucker category, but balanced off with some cheerleading as well, someone who strikes a balance between the two. when we're raising children, we try to compliment them and reward them with they do well, but if we're good parents, we'll also criticize them when they are doi

porter goss might qualify or eddie bowlen, a person i worked for in the early stages. he once said to me calm down with oversight we've had a lot of trouble having good relations with the agencies. for a while, we engage in cheered leading. the fourth category is what i call the lemon sucker and i take this from bill clinton who once said is all economists are lemon sucker. what he meant is they would come into the oval office and they would have nothing but bad news. the lemon suckers are those who see no value whatsoever in the intelligence community and i think a little of daniel patrick moynahan, he was over the top when it came to his criticism of the cia and actually wanted to close that place down if you recall. finally, here's the model that i try to espouse the guardian and this is a person who combines some skepticism that one might find in the lemon sucker category, but balanced off with some cheerleading as well, someone who strikes a balance between the two. when we're raising children, we try to compliment them and reward them with they do well but if we'

porter goss served as the 19th and last director of central intelligence until 2005. florida for almost 16 years. he was chairman of the house committee on intelligence from 1997 until his nomination as dci in 2004. he served as a member of the committee that oversees the intelligence community and authorizes its annual budget. during the 107th congress, mr. goss cochaired the congressional inquiry into the terrorist attacks of 9/11. he was the second director of central intelligence to have served in congress. john negroponte is a distinguished fellow and grand strategy senior lecturer in global affairs at the jackson institute of yale university. prior to joining yale, ambassador -- the ambassador developed a distinguished career, followed by a number of years in the private sector. he held government positions abroad and in washington between 1960 and 1998. he has been ambassador to mexico, the philippines, the united nations, and iraq. he served twice on the national security council, first as director for vietnam under nixon and as deputy national security advise

goss said. one is a detail, but in interesting one. that is the president's daily brief. when we made the transition from portere, was a very helpful and interesting time to transition over to doing it myself with the staff in the ensuing months. one thing i want to say about president bush, and this is now 2005, he had been in office for four years. when any president has been in office for four years, they know the situation pretty well. they have met a lot of leaders. they meet dozens of leaders, international leaders, every year. it is kind of hard to give them a leadership profile, if you will, on somebody who they just saw the previous week at a nato meeting, or other meeting. he was a particularly good customer. george w. bush really was fascinated by intelligence. he absorbed it. he liked that half hour that he spent every day -- and it was not just five days a week, it was six days a week that we briefed him. i think he was one of the best customers of intelligence that i have ever known. he had a dialectical style. he would look at the briefer and say, look, you wrote this, tell me what it says. he mu