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• Sunday, December 9, 2007 07:00 AM

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  https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statements/hpsci-chairman-reyes-honors-d-ncs-jose-rodriguez.html

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  HPSCI Chairman Reyes Honors D/NCS Jose Rodriguez
  August 16, 2007

  On Tuesday, 16 August 2007, during the 4th annual "Border Security Conference" in El Paso, Texas, Congressman Silvestre Reyes presented Jose Rodriguez, Director of the National Clandestine Service, with a flag flown over the U.S. Capitol in recognition of his three decades of dedicated service with the Central Intelligence Agency. Here is an excerpt:

  CHAIRMAN REYES: [...] We have an individual here that Mike Delaney tells me was the impetus to – I hope all of you are familiar with the TV series “24.” This gentleman that I’m about to thank was really the genesis – with a few liberties that Hollywood takes – the exploits of Jose Rodriguez are documented in the series “24.” So he admitted to me that he likes fast cars. I won’t tell you about the women, but I will tell you about the fast cars. (Laughter.) He is a connoisseur of fine wine. [...] Mr. Jose Rodriguez, Director of National Clandestine Service. Please give him a big round of applause.

  (Applause.)

  JOSE RODRIGUEZ: When I said yesterday that I was a little nervous because I was dropping trou – I didn’t mean it in the “24” series sense; I meant it in dropping cover. But I am truly honored, Congressman. [...]

  - - www.cia.gov

  Thanks to Lindsay Beyerstein for the www.cia.gov link.
  http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2007/12/jose-rodriguez.html

  December 09, 2007
  Jose Rodriguez is Jack Bauer

  The Chair of the House Intelligence Committee favorably compared the former head of the National Clandestine Service to the fictional torturer Jack Bauer at a CIA awards ceremony last August. [...]

  - - Lindsay Beyerstein

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