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rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath.

We have an obligation to do everything we can to operate in a way that engenders the American people's trust so that those powers and authorities remain in place.

If we don't, if we behave in ways that are lawless, if we behave in ways that you might see in the movies,

then the American people would rightfully take those powers, that authority, that capacity away from us.

It would be unforgivable for our agencies to find itself in that place.

What we do is simply too important.

I see it with against whichever target we're working, whether it's efforts to help the Secretary of State,

and the President understand what's going on in North Korea, whether it's our efforts to counter Iranian influence throughout the world,

whether it's work we're doing against Russia, those authorities that trust that the American people have provided to us,

are central to us achieving our mission.

I'm Vanessa Soder, and this is the LawFair podcast, January 30th, 2018.

Last week, CIA Director Mike Pompeo visited the American Enterprise Institute to join AEI resident fellow Mark Thiesen for a conversation to reflect on his first year running the agency and his vision for 2018 and beyond.

They discussed the challenges posed by North Korea's missile program, the war on terror, the Trump administration's national security agenda, and the quotidian of being CIA Director.

Sorry to disappoint the curious LawFair listener out there, but no, there was no discussion of the Pompeo Family Fud recipe sent the CIA workforce and LawFair's Benjamin Wittes with the director's holiday card.

It's the LawFair podcast, Episode 280, Mike Pompeo on the State of the CIA.

Good morning, everyone. Today is in fact exactly one year, and a few hours it'll be one year to the minute when I was sworn in as the director of the CIA.

I was supposed to be the weekend before, but you know how the Senate goes. I held up across the weekend.

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