[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 31, Number 5 (Monday, February 6, 1995)]
[Page 182]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Statement on Appointments to the Commission on the Roles and 
Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community

February 2, 1995

    I am announcing today appointments to the congressionally mandated 
Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the United States 
Intelligence Community. The Commission will be chaired by the current 
Chairman of my Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Les Aspin. Former 
Senator Warren Rudman will serve as the Vice Chairman, and I have asked 
General Lew Allen, Jr., Zoe Baird, Ann Caracristi, Stephen Friedman, 
Anthony S. Harrington, Robert J. Hermann, and Ambassador Paul Wolfowitz 
to serve as well.
    These distinguished Americans will join the eight members appointed 
by the leadership of the 103d Congress. They are Tony Coelho, David 
Dewhurst, Representative Norm Dicks, Senator James Exon, former Senator 
Wyche Fowler, Representative Porter Goss, General Robert Pursley, and 
Senator John Warner.
    Intelligence remains a critical element of our national power and 
influence. For over 40 years bipartisan support for the work performed 
by U.S. intelligence has been essential to the creation of an 
intelligence capability that is second to none. While the world has 
changed in dramatic ways, our need to retain the advantage that U.S. 
intelligence provides our country remains constant.
    With the end of the cold war we must renew and reinvigorate this 
bipartisan support. The foundation for this support must begin with a 
thorough assessment of the kind of intelligence community we will need 
to address the security challenges of the future. Our objective is to 
strengthen U.S. intelligence, to ensure it has the management, skills, 
and resources needed to successfully pursue our national security 
interests through the next decade and beyond. It is an effort to which I 
attach the highest personal priority.
    I am confident that Les Aspin, Warren Rudman, and the other 
outstanding members of this Commission will work cooperatively with the 
leadership of the intelligence community and the Congress to ensure 
continued bipartisan support for this critical mission. And I know that 
their effort will ensure the continued trust of the American people in 
the outstanding and often unheralded work performed by the men and women 
of U.S. intelligence.

Note: Biographies of the appointees were made available by the Office of 
the Press Secretary.