John Brennan on "Emerging Challenges"
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🗓️ 5 August 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan came to the Brookings Institution on July 13th for a conversation with Brookings Senior Fellow Bruce Riedel on “CIA’s strategy in the face of emerging challenges.” The two discussed a range of topics, from the Arab Spring, to the drone program, to the importance of integration across intelligence agencies.
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| 0:27.2 | and the aftermath. |
| 0:34.6 | The agency's detention interrogation program, I believe, was instrumental in keeping this |
| 0:42.2 | country safe in the aftermath of 9-11. |
| 0:45.0 | Were mistakes made in it? |
| 0:46.0 | Absolutely. |
| 0:47.0 | But the agency was directed and authorized to carry out this program to the best of its |
| 0:51.5 | capabilities, even though it had never done it before. |
| 0:54.2 | At the same time, though, I believe that those EITs are not necessary. |
| 0:58.6 | And I know that there has been calls for, you know, waterboarding or worse, whatever |
| 1:03.0 | else. |
| 1:04.0 | As long as I'm director of CIA, we're not going to go down that road again. |
| 1:09.0 | The Army's field manual, manual, is the basis for the debriefing and interrogations that |
| 1:15.5 | take place. |
| 1:16.6 | We provide support to other elements of the government, whether it be domestic or the |
| 1:21.1 | ones that are operating overseas. |
| 1:23.6 | But I do not believe that it is necessary to use those EITs, nor do I believe it is advisable |
| 1:31.7 | from the standpoint of the agency's future as well as this country's reputation and |
| 1:38.5 | standing in the world. |
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