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Welcome to the latest installment of Spycast.

To coincide with the 20th anniversary of 9-11, we'd like to present to you a trilogy of interviews

with intelligence officers who found themselves on point as presidential daily briefers on the day of.

The president's daily brief has been called the most tightly controlled daily document in the world.

It's a daily summary of high-level all source information and analysis on national security issues

produced for the president and key cabinet members and advisors.

We've got three presidential daily briefers for you, first up Mike Morrell.

Mike at various points in time was acting director and deputy director of CIA.

But on the morning of September 11, 2001, he was with George W. Bush and Sarah Sota Florida.

Then uniquely 10 years later, he was with President Barack Obama for the Obatobad raid.

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