Central Intelligence Agency - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Central Intelligence Agency Index / Organizations Transcripts Colin Kahl ...in Michigan, and is a brilliant ex- CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] analys... ...Michigan, and is a brilliant ex-CIA [ Central Intelligence Agency ] analyst who had a been a director o... Johnnie Carson ...involving the Defense Department, the CIA , and the White House National Securit... ...Intelligence. I was assigned to CIA headquarters and was the officer, th... ...policy person. I don't pretend to be a CIA officer or someone who is skilled i... ...respect for my former colleagues in the CIA , those who have worked with m... ...of state, she had her staff call me at CIA headquarters and asked whether I coul... Martin Dempsey ...that time— [David] Petraeus to the CIA ; General John Allen, commander o... Kenneth Roth ...combination of the Pentagon and the CIA —started playing games with the idea o... ...or the Pentagon, where relevant, or the CIA . But the bulk of that conversation i... William McRaven ...a VTC. So you'd bring in CIA and State Department and FBI in thi... ...it, always the State Department and the CIA and the usual interagency folks, an... ...to my office and he says, “Look, CIA thinks they have a lead on bin Laden... ...call to come back to Langley [Virginia, CIA headquarters] and talk to them abou... ...Leon Panetta became the director of CIA , he hadn't been there very long, an... ...anyway, I come into his office there at CIA headquarters, and he's got all of hi... ...he was chief of station in—” We—the CIA , and certainly my command—had worke... ...worked together very, very closely. The CIA and Special Operations had worke... ...who ran the OSS, the predecessor of the CIA , is the father of both the CIA and U... ...of the CIA, is the father of both the CIA and US Special Operations Command. S... ...Command. So Special Operations and the CIA have had this long history, but afte... ...remarkable team of Green Berets and CIA paramilitary guys. Then, as the wa... ...unfold, the Special Operations and the CIA were very, very close. Now, having sai... ...we had the same sort of target set. CIA was hunting the high-value individuals... ...all the credit to Leon Panetta. The CIA could very easily have decided to tr... ...have us do the mission rather than the CIA paramilitary guys. Thanks for that... ...how momentous was it that it was the CIA approaching Special Operations Force... ... Then, as I began to come back into CIA headquarters, and the analysts wer... ...operations in the history of the CIA , but with all the intelligence, yo... ...early on, and I did some work with the CIA to make sure I understood the potentia... ...a Navy captain who could kind of be at CIA to be my liaison, and he and I wer... ...guys as well. And so we—“we” being the CIA and the DOD [Department of Defense... ...so I hopped in the vehicle with a great CIA colleague of mine who'd been huntin... ...represent all the men and women of the CIA and the intelligence community.” So w... ...had the model—you've seen the model the CIA built—we actually put that down on th... ...worked. Spend time working with the CIA . Spend time with the State Departmen... ...over and became the director of the CIA . My relationship with John Brennan wa... ...understanding, from his time with the CIA , but also just wickedly smart... Show more... James Jones ...who was the outgoing director of the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] came ou... ...was the outgoing director of the CIA [ Central Intelligence Agency ] came out to Chicago and actually gav... ...the right word; it was omnipresent. [ CIA Director] John Brennan did a good jo... Harold Hongju Koh ...in the Defense Department— CIA [Central Intelligence Agency], Join... ...in the Defense Department—CIA [ Central Intelligence Agency ], Joint Chiefs of Staff, and th... Naureen Shah ...when executive orders on torture and CIA black sites—those were huge victories... ...way the Obama administration treated CIA activities that just—they just stoppe... ...The more they continued on with CIA drone strikes, the more they believe... ...So as long as it was going to be a CIA program, or a JSOC—a Joint Specia... ...the solution. And in the end, you know, CIA drone strikes continued. It continue... ...strikes continued. It continued to be a CIA program. John Brennan, who was th... ...remembered him as the architect of the CIA drone program and of covert dron... ...hadn't done enough to stigmatize CIA drone strikes, so that now John Brenna... ...program, which had been shared between CIA and the Defense Department [DOD], was... ...were making was that as long as the CIA had this control of the CIA—of th... ...long as the CIA had this control of the CIA —of the drone program, it was operatin... ...or John Brennan. And so, you have the CIA , which is this agency built around th... ...Like, it was absurd, right, that the CIA would go from having its wrists and... ...Then, you know, compare that to CIA drone strikes, where it was, like, m... ...it was Ned Price, you know, at the CIA Public Affairs office, and saying... ...no interface for engaging with the CIA about drone strikes, because it's no... ...introduced that would take the CIA out of the drone program, and put it i... ...also are concerned about this being a CIA program.” It was kind of a half-ste... ...torture and detention, and empower the CIA to torture and detain people again. An... ...to get filled back up, and that the CIA torture program would resume. In fact... ...of people. As far as we know, the CIA did not restart its black sites. An... Show more... Ben Rhodes ...they hadn't been—Leon Panetta at CIA [Central Intelligence Agency]... ...they hadn't been—Leon Panetta at CIA [ Central Intelligence Agency ]. Actually, there was an interestin... ...is that we offered Lee Hamilton the CIA , and he didn't take it. He was old... ...lived there, it was just years after a CIA -backed coup had led to the massacre o... ...get Alan Gross and a plane to get the CIA asset who was being recovered fro... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the The People's House The People's House go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa go to the Black Politics Black Politics go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Obama in the Senate Obama in the Senate