Central Intelligence Agency - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Central Intelligence Agency Index / Organizations Transcripts Michael Kassen ...leaders, and people in our Pentagon— CIA , State Department—would tell you tha... Harry Reid ... There was a lot of pushback from the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] and fro... ...was a lot of pushback from the CIA [ Central Intelligence Agency ] and from John Brennan in particular... ...about navigating that pressure from the CIA ? First of all, John Brennan, in m... ...said that, there were parts, things the CIA was doing regarding their treatment o... Dennis Ross ...Iraq. For a variety of reasons, CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] was ver... ...Iraq. For a variety of reasons, CIA [ Central Intelligence Agency ] was very reluctant to be involved... ... You ended up with John Brennan at the CIA , with Brennan and then Rice and Kerr... Mara Rudman ...from homeland security advisor to CIA [Central Intelligence Agency], an... ...from homeland security advisor to CIA [ Central Intelligence Agency ], and Brennan had been very focused o... Derek Chollet ...keeping Bob Gates and Leon Panetta at CIA . That was, I think, very much drive... ...know before. I'd seen him in action as CIA director, but I had no relationshi... ...moving from the White House over to the CIA . You had a lot of folks who had sa... ...but more immediately from his time as CIA director, where he had a very clos... Michael McFaul ...down and to call it all made up by the CIA and Mike McFaul His response was t... Daniel Russel ...national security agencies of State, CIA , DNI [Office of the Director o... ...that I was really getting from reading CIA analytic reports, or even—we ha... ...claims that it's the black hand of the CIA . We can't stop them from making thos... James Clapper ...of stomping on the—intruding on the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] tour... ...stomping on the—intruding on the CIA [ Central Intelligence Agency ] tours where the military wa... ...best resided with and practiced by the CIA rather than elements connected to th... ...the arrangement where the director of CIA was also the director of centra... ...ended, then his tenure as CIA director ended. But we were prett... ...associate, of Bob Gates back in their CIA days. Of course, Mike was a legendar... ...his principal focus, frankly, was on CIA and the aversion to, or opposition to... ...being the DNI and the director of CIA . But he, as you know, is a ver... ...of experience in intelligence, career CIA officer, and he was the founder, th... ...the way, when the PDB was done only by CIA . They weren't looking for anybody t... ...became a community product, not just CIA —I mean CIA is still dominant, but i... ...community product, not just CIA—I mean CIA is still dominant, but it was ... ...would argue they were yelling, “ CIA ! CIA!” I don't know if that's true o... ...would argue they were yelling, “CIA! CIA !” I don't know if that's true or not... ...And Leon Panetta was ideally suited as CIA director. He understood that it was... ...for signs of instability—the CIA , particularly. They have metrics the... ...the Director of National Intelligence, CIA , FBI, and, to a lesser extent, NSA... ...experts from across the three agencies— CIA , FBI, NSA—and ODNI [Office of th... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Democrats Democrats go to the Russia Russia go to the Agriculture Agriculture go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa go to the Labor Labor