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An interpretation that one of my former colleagues made about how the CIA is portrayed in the popular culture.

He said we are considered either evil geniuses or incompetent doles.

It's important to look back on these episodes, which we do in some of our analytic training classes,

to figure out where we got it right and where we got it wrong.

How do you balance the need to inform policymakers about what they need to know,

even if it's what they would prefer not to hear, with maintaining your access and one hopes

your ability to wisely inform the policymaking decisions that continue trade off occurs in

practically any major scenario that we've been through in our history.

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a position he has held for over 15 years. We just had a chance to sit down with David and talk

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