Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley on DIA's Core Mission

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, about the agency's analytic and collection missions, its role within the broader intelligence community, and its top areas of focus today. Ashley and Morell discuss the growing number of contested domains and numerous technological challenges with which the U.S. military is actively grappling. They also review near and long-term challenges from Russia, China, ISIS and Iran, including the aftermath of the Trump administration’s strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.

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0:28.0	This is Intelligence Matters, with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morel.
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0:35.3	Your mission is ours.
0:36.9	We're taping this the morning after an Iranian missile strike on US targets in Iraq.
0:43.5	I was wondering if you could give us a sense of how you think the Iranians are thinking
0:49.5	about all this.
0:50.5	How are the Iranians thinking about how we got here?
0:53.6	How the Iranians are thinking about where we are?
0:55.8	How the Iranians might be thinking about where we might be going.
0:58.8	Talk about that at all.
1:00.2	I really can't get into that.
1:01.4	I can tell you from my vantage point, as a senior member of the IC, we have unencumbered
1:06.0	access to the senior leaders of the Defense Department and the ability to ensure that we
1:10.3	are providing them everything that we know and understand.
1:13.1	And a key part of what we do is what I can't necessarily share with you right now, but what
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