Defense Intelligence Agency Director LTG Scott Berrier on Global Threats
Intelligence Matters
CBS News
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Lieutenant General Scott Berrier, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), about the agency's mission, its workforce, and about the top strategic threats its analysts are tracking today. Morell and Berrier discuss evolving and intensifying threats from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. Berrier also describes his own professional trajectory and how applicants to DIA can pursue opportunities to work in posts around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morel. |
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| 0:12.6 | You know, when you think of the China threat and you think of the Russia threat, |
| 0:15.6 | I do think that this presents a slow boiling crisis for our country, |
| 0:19.2 | and I'm trying to bring all of that knowledge to bear all the experience |
| 0:22.3 | and what people have given me to make DIA a better organization |
| 0:26.1 | to support the Department's strategic competition problem. |
| 0:30.1 | I think it's my job to make sure that we can illuminate their activities |
| 0:37.7 | to the Department of Defense so that our senior leaders can make really smart decisions |
| 0:41.1 | about next steps. |
| 0:46.1 | Lieutenant General Scott Barrier is the currently serving director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. |
| 0:52.1 | He is a career army officer and a career intelligence officer. |
| 0:56.1 | We are honored that he sat down with us to talk about DIA, |
| 0:59.1 | the future of intelligence, and the national security threats facing our nation. |
| 1:03.1 | We'll be right back with that discussion after a word from our sponsor. |
| 1:07.1 | I'm Michael Morel, and this is Intelligence Matters. |
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