458: John Brennan | An Undaunted Fight Against America's Enemies
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 19 January 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
John Brennan (@JohnBrennan) served as the Director of the CIA from 2013 to 2017, and is the author of Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies, At Home and Abroad.
What We Discuss with John Brennan:- The mechanics of being in charge of America's spy agency and dealing with international crises on a daily basis.
- How CIA officers are taught to question their assumptions and overcome confirmation biases to find facts in a field of deception.
- Why John argued for diversity within the CIA -- not to placate a liberal agenda, as his critics asserted, but to strengthen the agency's ability to operate effectively in a diverse world.
- How John was able to get a job at the CIA in spite of past hashish use, lying to his mother about going to church, and voting for a communist.
- The challenges of operating clandestinely in the digitally rich 21st century.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it sounds like you're better informed and a harder work than most of the members of |
| 0:03.7 | Congress that I had to testify in front of. |
| 0:05.7 | So, I look forward to the conversation. |
| 0:11.4 | Coming up on the Jordan Harbinger Show, when strikes were taken against Al-Qaeda operatives |
| 0:17.1 | or leaders who were planning to carry out these legal attacks against innocent men, women, |
| 0:22.3 | and children, the United States and other countries also took action to prevent those activities |
| 0:27.4 | from taking place. |
| 0:28.6 | Was it cathartic for people to say, yeah, we kill the Iranians because they're bad? |
| 0:32.3 | I think we have to stop looking at these types of activities in very stark black and white |
| 0:36.1 | terms. |
| 0:37.1 | If we do it or if Israel does it, it's okay. |
| 0:39.4 | If China does it or Russia does it, it's not okay. |
| 0:41.8 | Well, I'm sorry, that is just a very nativist and I think very, in many sex foolish sort |
| 0:49.0 | of approach. |
| 0:50.1 | If you really want to have an international environment that there is going to be respect for sovereign |
| 0:57.6 | status and for international order. |
| 1:04.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 1:06.0 | On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's |
| 1:09.4 | most fascinating people. |
| 1:10.8 | On this show, we have in-depth conversations with people at the top of their game. |
| 1:14.7 | Astronauts, entrepreneurs, spies, psychologists, even the occasional organized crime figure, |
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