Director of National Counterterrorism Center Nicholas Rasmussen

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 26 September 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In this week's episode of Intelligence Matters with Michael Morell, we hear from the Director of National Counterterrorism Center Nicholas Rasmussen who in a rare interview gives insight into the dramatic progress made against ISIS in the battlefield, why Al Qaeda is still priority to analysts, primary threats currently facing the homeland and how the terror threat has evolved. Rasmussen is the top analyst on terrorism in the United States with nearly two decades' experience in the counterterror field. As senior NCTC and CIA officials, Rasmussen and Morell worked closely with one another, sharing counterterrorism-related intelligence information that ensured effective intra-agency coordination and ultimately led to the operation that resulted in the death of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. The NCTC, initially known as the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, was created at the recommendation of the 9/11 commission to ensure that information on potential terror threats from federal departments and agencies (such as the CIA and FBI) could be merged in a single location and appropriate responses could then be planned.

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0:31.0	I was in the awkward position of having to come back into a room with people a lot
0:36.6	more senior, very senior to me, and having to interrupt them and say, stop, please listen,
0:41.2	I have something you all need to know.
0:44.6	ISIS is a very persistent adversary.
0:46.4	But I think my big takeaway, though, is that even though we are having this dramatic
0:50.0	success on the battlefield, and it is inarguable, it isn't necessarily going to translate in
0:55.9	the near term into a dramatic reduction in the level of threat we experience.
1:01.8	I get to raise questions and then stand back and let's mark people answering them.
1:06.6	And the question I asked was, how does it all end?
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1:22.5	In this podcast, the former acting director of the CIA speaks with top leaders who talk
1:26.9	candidly about what they've seen and what they think it means for global security.
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