GRP 124- The Work of a Nation, the Center of Intelligence: Insight from an Intelligence Advisor
Global Recon
John Hendricks
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2019
⏱️ 116 minutes
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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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