Need to Know: The Mission: A Vital Look at an Intel Community Adrift

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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US Intelligence and the CIA have undergone radical changes in the 21st century. From the War on Terror to the turmoils of the Trump era, intelligence has shifted dramatically in both its structure and mission. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Tim Weiner joins David Rothkopf to discuss his new book, The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century and why the intelligence community is adrift under the current administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:48.1	Need to Know where we talk to people who are in the news or writing books who are doing
1:52.5	things that we think you ought to know about. And today we're very fortunate to have with us
1:58.5	Tim Weiner, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on American
2:02.5	National Security and the National Book Award for Legacy of Ash's, the history of the CIA.
2:12.5	He worked at the New York Times. He covered the CIA in Washington. He covered conflicts in
2:17.5	Afghanistan and Pakistan and many other places. And he has a new book out. It's called
2:22.7	The Mission, the CIA in the 21st Century. It's available now. I've read it. It's great.
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