DECLASSIFIED: Former CIA Analyst Kristin Wood on Post 9/11 Briefings
Intelligence Matters
CBS News
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🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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In this episode of Intelligence Matters: Declassified host Michael Morell interviews Kristin Wood, career analyst and manager of analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. Wood looks back at the time she spent as Scooter Libby's briefer and Vice President Cheney's backup briefer. Both roles she played during the time of the 9/11 attacks. Post 9/11 there was a push by top officials to connect Iraq with al-Qaeda's role in the attacks, a push that led to the "Murkey Water Papers" being published. A report she says now, in hindsight, she would not do. "It was written in the context of some of the administration using questionable intelligence reports to justify their views that Iraq was somehow complicit in the 9/11 attacks."
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| 0:09.0 | This is Intelligence Matters, with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morrell. |
| 0:14.1 | Brought to you by Lockheed Martin. |
| 0:16.3 | Your mission is ours. |
| 0:18.8 | Kristen Wood served at the Central Intelligence Agency for over 20 years. |
| 0:23.6 | During her 10-year, she worked in three of the agency's five directorates, analysis, |
| 0:28.2 | operations, and digital innovation. |
| 0:30.5 | Kristen was on our show several months ago to talk about what it is like to be an analyst |
| 0:34.5 | at CIA. |
| 0:35.5 | And she is back today as part of our series of episodes we are doing on real-life spy |
| 0:40.1 | stories. |
| 0:41.1 | She and I are going to chat about one of the most important analytic questions of my career, |
| 0:45.6 | whether or not there was a link between Iraq and Al-Qaeda. |
| 0:48.3 | We'll be right back with that discussion after a quick break. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm Michael Morrell, and this is an episode of Intelligence Matters Declassified. |
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