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If our responsibility, which it is, is to provide the best insight perspective possible to give

the head of our government and our leadership in the national security community, that's

the now as we can provide to anticipate, warn of, and understand and explain key forces

in the world. I'm not defining what I'm doing by the information I'm relying on.

I'm defining what I'm doing by that purpose. And increasingly, as especially now as we understand

expertise, sharing of information, the experts for transnational issues as well, we will be

hurting ourselves if we only rely on that information, and only we acquire, if you will, and you,

that is the classified form of intelligence and the secrets that only we have that others don't

have. I'd be challenging ourselves to say, are we truly understanding everything about a given

issue, if we're only looking and defining what we do beginning with, what comes in and that,

if you will, that classified inbox.

I'm David Chris, and this is the LawFair podcast, September 1st, 2023. The National Intelligence

Strategy is out, and with me to discuss it is Michael Collins, the acting head of the National

Intelligence Council. We discuss many aspects of US national security, defense, cyber, and

intelligence strategy, including the increasing geopolitical significance of non-state entities,

and even the meaning of the word intelligence itself. We also cover Mike's long and illustrious

career inside the US intelligence community and his thoughts about the future of US intelligence.

It's the LawFair podcast, September 1st, the National Intelligence Strategy with Mike Collins

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