Michael Morell on 9/11, the CIA and Afghanistan: Part 2
Intelligence Matters
CBS News
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell offers personal reflections in Part Two of a two-part essay on the CIA's strategic warnings before 9/11, the terror plots it helped foil in its aftermath, and its efforts on the ground in Afghanistan post-9/11. Morell offers new details about the CIA's race to gather intelligence on secondary al Qaeda plots targeting the U.S. - including the agency's behind-the-scenes engagements with leaders in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia - and explains why he believes thousands of lives were saved in the immediate post-9/11 period. He also shares his perspective on the agency's Detention and Interrogation program and how it affected CIA's public standing.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morrell. |
| 0:06.5 | Brought to you by Lockheed Martin. Your mission is ours. |
| 0:11.3 | Last week on our show, I provided my personal thoughts on the period running up to 9-11. |
| 0:17.5 | Today, I'm going to do the same for the immediate post-9-11 period. |
| 0:22.1 | I will be right back with those thoughts after our word from our sponsor. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm Michael Morrell, and this is Intelligence Matters. |
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| 1:34.3 | Last week in chapter 1 of our 9-11 story, I looked at what CIA got right and what it got wrong in the pre-9-11 period. |
| 1:45.5 | And I tried to put that into a broader context of the rest of our government. |
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