Somalia - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Somalia Index / Locations Transcripts Jeh Johnson ...operations in Yemen and Somalia . They were classified, so all th... Michelle Gavin ...at independence in '66, where you find Somalia now. They had thirty total universit... ...tough policy issues like—we did a big Somalia policy review. And Somalia's a toug... ...did a big Somalia policy review. And Somalia 's a tough issue to work becaus... Gayle Smith ...So, bye. I'm going back. And then the Somalia crisis built up rather substantially. ... Scott Gration ...and air strips on the border with Somalia , in a place called Mount Kulal up b... ...fighters that were going through to Somalia , those were the three things. ... Cecilia Muñoz ...to worry about. I also have kids in Somalia and in other parts of the world t... Michèle Flournoy ...Americans—I had nothing to do with the Somalia operation, but I was sitting in th... Elizabeth Phu ...piracy is born of the lawlessness in Somalia . So there's only so much we coul... John Brennan ...Al-Shabaab right across the water in Somalia , and other groups as well. We have ... Robert Gates ...in Haiti or Granada or the Balkans or Somalia or a host of other places, Libya, ther... Michael Leiter ...to highlight. Yemen was one of them. Somalia was another; Pakistan. Nothing reall... ...places where strikes might occur, Somalia or Yemen. Because of that, we had Mik... ...associated with al-Qaeda's element in Somalia were going to attack the inauguration... ...is actually pretty good, but Yemen, Somalia , North Africa—real challenges... ...Afghanistan, we've got Iraq, we've got Somalia , we've just got all sorts of problems... ...CIA and NCTC. “We want to write about Somalia . No, we're writing about Yemen.” I... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Gun Control Gun Control go to the Education Education go to the Republican Opposition Republican Opposition go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism go to the Public Health Public Health