Central Intelligence Agency - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Central Intelligence Agency Index / Organizations Transcripts Michael Leiter ...in the United States, you had the CIA that was looking to collec... ...and not-so-polite fights with the CIA and the FBI and the Department o... ...is—and was the director of the CIA , and Bob was the director of the FBI... ...and Mike focused on a bunch of what the CIA was doing around the globe, outside th... ...that was more highly charged with the CIA than that. I would have arguments... ...the deputy director for a period at the CIA , where we largely took the position a... ...It's not that people don't trust the CIA and the government; they do. And th... ...and the government; they do. And the CIA does unbelievable work. It is the gol... ...lot of people who, fairly, thought the CIA , having helped identify these people... ...John Brennan, Dennis McDonough, NCTC, CIA , FBI. We're all working through thi... ...That came from the Bureau. It came from CIA . It came from the State Department... ...F-A-R-O-U-K, and F-A-R-O-U-Q; and the CIA hadn't done pieces of this; and DHS an... ...It was largely a back-and-forth between CIA and NCTC. “We want to write abou... ...event, if we had tried to do this, FBI, CIA , DHS would have said, “No way, don'... ...We're going to work with you, FBI, CIA , DHS, DOD, and we're going to augmen... ...Kappes, the then deputy director of CIA , and me and said, “Hey, guys, I'd lik... ...process, which I know at some CIA , and probably Steve, didn't reall... ...in charge of the hunt for bin Laden: CIA , appropriately so. That was thei... ...role, just to make sure it wasn't too CIA -centric a view of the world and th... ...involved made it clear it wasn't just CIA and made it more of an interagenc... ...if it was a nugget about bin Laden, CIA was going to hunt down everything the... ...that was not going to go over well with CIA . But John thought through it quickl... ...about it?”—who's the deputy director of CIA . I said, “Absolutely. Happy to.” Thi... ...red team which is sort of attacking the CIA . That's not the purpose here. I said... ...yet, and I knew John was nervous about CIA , I wanted to lock it in. So it was m... ...to scrub this, and it can't just be CIA . We're pretty absorbed by this, and w... ...on it, and we picked three analysts, a CIA , somebody else, and an NCTC, and ... ...SEALs, and of course it was, in theory, CIA mission. The intelligence was largel... ...mission. The intelligence was largely CIA , supported by others, but th... ...Special Operations Command] under a CIA hat. During this process, I d... ...Kappes when he was deputy director of CIA in 2009, just before Christmas 2009... ...coast with the death of seven or eight CIA officers. I had those two pieces in m... ...security, the AG [attorney general], CIA , Joint Chiefs of Staff, etc., and NCT... ...about that. This was, at the time, a CIA covert action, and the one thing w... ...the analysts. The highest one was a CIA analyst who, if I recall correctly... Show more... Arturo Valenzuela ...conversation, both with the Central Intelligence Agency , with the Defense Department, and s... Avril Haines ...to 2015 she was deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency , the first woman ever to serve in tha... ...you're referring to there? Is it the CIA , by chance? Yes, exactly, not tha... ...subject matter, and so on. Going to the CIA was definitely different. And part o... ...with John being the director of the CIA , you have somebody who's actually a... ...about the issues you confronted at the CIA , although I think they obviousl... ...thinking during your time at the CIA ; things like ISIS [Islamic State i... Show more... Michael Mullen ...trusting with, than the director of the CIA , period.” I think eventually it was... ...had echoes of the torture, because the CIA was running it, the Navy genera... ...[Inter-Services Intelligence] and the CIA , and working all that. One of th... ...different agencies—dominated by the CIA ; there's no question about that—as t... ...Bob Gates had been the director of the CIA , he did away with it at the CIA. So h... ...of the CIA, he did away with it at the CIA . So he had that background. But... ...president is with the director of the CIA , and it has to be trust, period.... Show more... Michael Morell ...project. Mr. Morell retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in 2013, after a thirty-three-yea... ...memoir, The Great War of Our Time: The CIA 's Fight Against Terrorism—from A... ...no intention of working at the CIA , because I knew exactly what I wante... ...of the top leadership positions at the CIA , I wonder, if you were to pick out on... ...I was the director for intelligence at CIA , so I was the lead analyst at CIA. S... ...at CIA, so I was the lead analyst at CIA . So you could argue I was the lea... ...Daily Brief] recipients. And he came to CIA and said, “Hey, I want the PDB too.... ...Hayden, who was then the director of CIA , led. the CIA clandestinel... ...then the director of CIA, led. the CIA clandestinely collects intelligence... ...collects intelligence; the CIA does all source analysis, so it take... ...of it for the president; and then the CIA conducts covert action. The CI... ...the CIA conducts covert action. The CIA actually conducts activities on th... ...on something called a finding. “I want CIA to do x, y, and z to achieve thi... ...they take a hard look at it, etc. So, CIA does these covert actions, and so Mik... ...detentions, and interrogations by the CIA —and with regard to interrogations... ...I heard from many people, both from the CIA side who were in the room and from th... ...second day of his presidency—he banned CIA from detaining or interrogatin... ...process for renditions, which the CIA had been doing for years. It's simpl... ...the incoming administration and the CIA . But I want to ask about hi... ...like for Leon Panetta to come into the CIA , and how that shaped the relationshi... ...There were a number of reactions at CIA to Leon's appointment. One was, “Wha... ...Denny Blair, was trying to micromanage CIA . So, the intelligence community is ... ...for a cabinet secretary, and that's CIA . And technically, according to th... ...And technically, according to the law, CIA works for the DNI. So if you're th... ...the DNI really has room to play with is CIA . So Denny Blair was getting in ou... ...on, he was going to appoint chiefs of CIA stations. And within—I don't know—... ...between the DNI and the director of CIA . And neither one of them budged. Rah... ...this issue of who was going to appoint CIA chiefs of station. Leon told me tha... ...that this guy who has been appointed CIA doesn't know anything abou... ...end of the day, one of the most beloved CIA directors in its history. Anothe... ...because Mike Hayden, as Bush's CIA director, had really, particularly o... ...two issues. And it's interesting. The CIA covers the world, so it covers al... ...the world. But the issues on which CIA 's voice really matters are thos... ...policy, everybody has a view. And the CIA 's view is no better than anybod... ...very quickly, at leadership levels in CIA , that there are two issues tha... ...between senior policy makers and CIA , and the intelligence community i... ...what dominates the conversation between CIA and the White House, and CIA an... ...between CIA and the White House, and CIA and Congress. So the two issues tha... ...your perspective would have been at CIA in particular—to grapple with th... ...begins with—if you're the director of CIA or the deputy director of CIA, you... ...of CIA or the deputy director of CIA , you, like the president, get a dail... ...and there was a briefing by the CIA person, me. So it was a little bit o... ...It was one of the decision meetings. CIA had made a judgment that this guy name... ...Ahmed [al-Kuwaiti], this courier—the CIA had made a judgment that Abu Ahmed i... ...he was there. The lead analyst at CIA , a young woman, who is portrayed a... ...what you felt that night. I was at CIA with Leon for the raid itself, becaus... ...Defense military operation. This was a CIA covert action. Because on the of... ...it was a covert action. So we were at CIA for the operation itself because it wa... ...the operation itself because it was a CIA operation. Then we went to the Whit... ...a weekly operational briefing on what CIA was doing, and oftentimes, he woul... ...who is currently the acting director of CIA , that I hope Bill Burns gets thei... ...in the interview, I'd like to ask—the CIA covered the entire world, as yo... ...the Obama years as you saw it from the CIA ? Some of it we can't talk about, o... ...he thought about other things that the CIA was responsible for, including cover... ...the four years that you were at the CIA and he was in the White House? I wa... ...including failures on the part of both CIA and NSA, steals a tremendous amount o... ...I just wonder: Before you left the CIA , did you begin to see any of that? An... Show more... Anne Patterson ...the exact position that he had at the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency]. I thin... ...exact position that he had at the CIA [ Central Intelligence Agency ]. I think he was at the NIC [Nationa... Mark Lippert ...Secretary Panetta, being a former CIA director and knowing the Five Eye... ...relationship with your counterparts at CIA , for example, at the White House, a... Samantha Power ...to brand protestors as tools of the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] or th... ...brand protestors as tools of the CIA [ Central Intelligence Agency ] or the imperial power. And so, i... Ryan Crocker ...was when he was announced for the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency]. I can'... ...was when he was announced for the CIA [ Central Intelligence Agency ]. I can't remember who else, but w... 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