Intelligence Under a Trump Administration
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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šļø 16 December 2016
ā±ļø 65 minutes
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Summary
The annual Cato Surveillance ConferenceĀ kicked off this week with a panel on "Intelligence Under a Trump Administration," featuring former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matthew Olsen andĀ Lawfare's own Susan Hennessey, Timothy Edgar, and Carrie Cordero. In a discussion moderated by Shane Harris ofĀ The Wall Street JournalĀ (andĀ Rational Security), the group discussed how Trump's antagonistic approach to the intelligence community and his dismissive attitude toward intelligence briefings will shape the comingĀ administration.Ā
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| 0:29.0 | At the National Counterterrorism Center, we had the pick of folks coming out to come work. |
| 0:37.0 | They could have gone to Wall Street, they could have gone to Silicon Valley, |
| 0:41.0 | they wanted to go fight Al Qaeda. |
| 0:43.0 | And we had an incredible workforce. |
| 0:45.0 | And if I was advising somebody in that position, |
| 0:47.0 | whether to choose the intelligence community or to choose one of those other jobs |
| 0:51.0 | when the president talks about draining the swamp and talks about dismissing without evidence, |
| 0:57.0 | consider views that you are working night and day, night and day to put out, |
| 1:03.0 | I'd be hard pressed to advise someone to do that. |
| 1:05.0 | And that is extremely dangerous. |
| 1:07.0 | And that's the working level. |
| 1:09.0 | And then my friends who are trying to decide whether to work at a higher level |
| 1:13.0 | is a different set of questions, but I think even more starkly put to somebody |
| 1:19.0 | who is going to be in a position to actually implement the policies of registering Muslims |
| 1:25.0 | terrorist families or bringing back to Georgia. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm Quinta Jurexic, and this is the Law Fair Podcast, December 17th, 2016. |
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