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Global Recon

GRP 124- The Work of a Nation, the Center of Intelligence: Insight from an Intelligence Advisor

Global Recon

John Hendricks

Government

4.8592 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

GRP 124- “We accomplish what others cannot accomplish and go where others cannot go.   On for this week’s podcast is my co host Tim Kolczak and U.S. intelligence specialist JT Patten. Patten, became involved in the intelligence and counter terrorism shortly after 9/11. Possessing a skill set uniquely suited to working specific elements of intelligence operations we were able to discuss some of what that entails. We touched on what is known as the “Deep State” as well as conspiracy theories, funding, and many other topics. Enjoy   0:00-Former CIA Director John Brennan’s intelligence speech   2:59-Tim Kolczak covering MOH recipient from WW2   28:44- JT Patten’s background in the intelligence community   01:02:00-The reality of what is considered the “Deep State” Follow J.T Patten Below: http://www.jtpattenbooks.com Follow Global Recon below:   www.Globalrecon.net https://www.instagram.com/igrecon https://www.instagram.com/blackopsmatter www.twitter.com/igrecon https://www.facebook.com/GlobalReconPodcast/   Chantel Taylor: https://www.instagram.com/mission_critical https://www.instagram.com/altern8rv   Tim Kolczak:
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0:00.0

Our government and our citizens recognize the urgency of the task.

0:05.0

To find and stop Al Qaeda before it could shed the blood of more innocent men, women, and children,

0:11.0

be it in America or be it in any other corner of the world.

0:16.0

And, as has been the case throughout its then 54-year history, CIA was looked to for answers,

0:24.7

not only to the questions on the threats we faced, but also to questions about what we were going to do

0:30.8

to stop future attacks. CIA's mission in the wake of the 9-11 attacks would be a multi-dimensional one.

0:39.3

Stopping al-Qaeda would require the CIA to work closely with its intelligence community,

0:44.3

military, homeland security, and law enforcement partners,

0:48.3

as well as with numerous intelligence and security services around the globe.

0:52.3

To be successful, CIA officers knew that they needed speed, agility, courage, resources,

1:01.0

and most important, intelligence.

1:05.1

Their mission was to acquire through human and technical operations and then to analyze with

1:09.8

deep expertise whatever bits and pieces of information

1:13.6

might help fill out the menacing yet incomplete puzzle of al-Qaeda's terrorist plans.

1:19.6

Indeed, there were numerous, credible, and very worrisome reports about a second and third wave of major attacks against the United States.

1:29.3

And while we grieved, while we honored our dead, while we tended to our injured, and while we embarked

1:36.1

on the long process of recovery, we feared more blows from an enemy we couldn't see and an evil we

1:42.6

couldn't fathom. This is the backdrop against

1:47.0

which the agency was directed by President Bush to carry out a program to detain terrorist

1:53.0

suspects around the world. Welcome to the Global Recon Podcast.

2:20.3

I'm your host, John Hendricks.

2:22.4

I'm on with Tim Kozak from the Veterans Project.

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