The CIA should be at least a LITTLE pessimistic. I'm not sure what this has to do with Porter Goss. This guy seems to want CIA to factor in happyland rainbow gumdrop guesswork and come up with superlicious estimates! That will just bite us in the ass later. Estimating extra income and higher stock prices was one of Enron's problems, wasn't it?
Sure thing. Tempering their pessimism with some optimism would be a nice change though.
It's not about pessimistic or optimistic. it's about being REALISTIC. Which the CIA hasn't been in decades.