[captioning made possible by bloomberg television] from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose of Lieutenant General mike flynn is here. He retired as director of the Defense Intelligence agency this fall. His career spans three decades includes every level of command in military intelligence. He previously served as top intelligence advisor to general Stanley Mcchrystal in iraq and afghanistan. He is credited with revolutionizing how intelligence is done inside the military. In 2010, wrow a similar report called fixing intel, a blueprint for making intelligence relevant in the military. It examines the militaryaries inability to understand fundamental questions driving extremists. That paper proves relevant today. Im pleased to have mike flynn at this table for the first time. Welcome. Charlie, thanks so much for having me. I know weve been trying to do this for a while. We have indeed. I met you as i mentioned in this top colleague of Stanley Mcchrystal in afghanistan. Re
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And part of which was a reality. We also dealt very closely on the issues of detentions. This goes again to this issue of president karzai seeking to establish and to reinforce the sense that afghanistan was a sovereign country and to wrest from the United States and other countries the kinds of respect due to that country and due to its people, and as we negotiated a contentious mou for my turning over of several thousand afghan detainees to afghanistan, that process and that sense of sovereignty came home in a very real way for me. And then, unfortunately, when president karzai abrogated parts of the mou, i had to cease the turnover of detainees until such time i was sure that they werent going to be released ultimately to target us or afghan citizens of the afghans again. We also had a period of time where we worked very closely on night operations and special operations, and that resulted in a memorandum of understanding as well where we sought to move from being unilaterally engag