Former CIA Chief Operating Officer on his Career at the CIA
Intelligence Matters
CBS News
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🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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This week on Intelligence Matters, Michael Morell speaks with former CIA Chief Operating Officer Andrew Makridis on his 37-year career at the CIA. Makridis reflects on his front row seat to history as a Presidential briefer to President George H.W. Bush. He provides his analysis on how the CIA has changed and improved since the Iraq WMD intelligence failure and Wikileaks breach.
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| 0:00.0 | Andy McCreedus is the just retired former chief operating officer at the Central Intelligence |
| 0:06.2 | Agency. |
| 0:07.2 | Andy spent a career as a CIA analyst and leader of analysts. |
| 0:12.2 | Andy joins me today for a conversation about his career and some of the key issues he faced |
| 0:17.6 | during it. |
| 0:18.6 | When I looked at some of the WMD part of Iraq that describes the trap, we had people who |
| 0:24.0 | really knew an area very, very deeply, but maybe we're unwilling to look left and right |
| 0:30.4 | of that to say what other possibilities could there be enough? |
| 0:33.8 | You know, in their defense, there was from the previous Gulf War, we knew that Saddam |
| 0:37.5 | was hiding, you know, components for a nuclear program, but we found it. |
| 0:40.6 | We'll be right back with that discussion after a quick break. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm Michael Morrell, and this is Intelligence Matters. |
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