Central Intelligence Agency - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Central Intelligence Agency Index / Organizations Transcripts Azizullah Royesh ...say it. Then he became the chief of the CIA when he returned from Afghanistan. H... Neal Wolin ...have? Maybe. I had spent time at CIA . I'd spent time at the Nationa... Jon Favreau ...There's the Defense Department and the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] sayin... ...the Defense Department and the CIA [ Central Intelligence Agency ] saying maybe you have to take thi... Cody Keenan ...Department and be a diplomat, or the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] o... ...and be a diplomat, or the CIA [ Central Intelligence Agency ] or whatever. So I was still trying t... ...and State, and ambassadors, and CIA , and the Intelligence Community... Jim Messina ...“The NSA [National Security Agency] and CIA want you to fly to DC because they wan... Daniel Fried ...got a bunch of intelligence community, CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] and othe... ...bunch of intelligence community, CIA [ Central Intelligence Agency ] and other veterans, to agree tha... ...a lot of it. Of course, there were CIA people, and they were good at this... Eric Waldo ...someone, whether it was for the CIA or HUD [Department of Housing and Urba... James Risen ...author of several central books on the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] we'll b... ...of several central books on the CIA [ Central Intelligence Agency ] we'll be talking about today and ... ...Latin American policy halftime and the CIA halftime. And I said, “Okay I'll d... ...American policy. I just covered the CIA . Nobody ever asked me, “Where are th... ...I just kept it going and covering the CIA . The LA Times didn't really have ... ...LA Times didn't really have a full-time CIA reporter at the time, so it was good... ...And a lot of people were leaving the CIA both because of the Ames case an... ...whole generation of people leaving the CIA . A lot of them were pissed off becaus... ...and they thought the mission of the CIA was basically done. And a lot of the... ...back then. There was no—the CIA didn't really go after people wh... ...It was a great time to cover the CIA . What was your sense about how th... ...when it helped public debate? Was the CIA then upset over them? It seems lik... ...a small group of people covering the CIA from all the major newspapers. I thin... ...I think CNN had somebody then who was a CIA beat reporter, which they got rid o... ...of them, was they hadn't covered the CIA or the Intelligence Community or th... ...then the story we did after that on the CIA SWIFT [Society for Worldwide Interban... ...detainees who had been tortured at the CIA secret prisons. It was really importan... ...a secret prison in Thailand, the CIA . And the White House called them an... ... What were his reasons? The CIA and the White House. You know... Show more... Richard Blanco ...and done anything I wanted unless the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] had m... ...done anything I wanted unless the CIA [ Central Intelligence Agency ] had my room bugged or something o... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the The People's House The People's House go to the Asia Rebalance Asia Rebalance go to the Obama in the Senate Obama in the Senate go to the Western Hemisphere Western Hemisphere go to the Transition Transition