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Presidents routinely ask the CIA to solve intractable problems, says Michael Morell
“There is this tendency that In every administration that I've seen, and I saw six of them, three Republican, three Democrat, for when the problem gets really hard to turn to CIA and say, fix this. Using covert action, fix this. And a lot of the times, CIA can'…”
Morell: Senior analysts distinguish themselves by answering questions without excessive caveats
“The ability to answer a president's question without giving 10 caveats, which no president's going to listen to, is the difference between a junior analyst and a senior analyst, right?”
Morell: Strong encryption makes human spies more essential to intelligence services
“Technology actually sometimes makes a human Spy more important. So take encryption, for example. Terrorists can now talk to each other without security services and intelligence services getting in the middle of that. So if that's the case, then technical coll…”