My name is karen. Thank you for joining us here at the center on National Security. We are delighted to be bringing you this afternoons conversation. With me today is awardwinning author, journalist, documentary maker. His new book is the spymasters how the cia director shaped the future and we are going to talk about this book today but first i want to say welcome and thank you for joining us. Its a pleasure to be here thanks for having me. So this is a wonderful read. When i started it i was like this is going to be too much information i wont be able to take it in but its fantastic. Its based on your own knowledge and research over 70 interviews and among those the directors of the cia except for the current ones and its not so much about the cia directors of their relationshitherelationship to te and the president would you agree with that . Thanks for the kind words about the book because what i try to do may be above all else is humanize these directors. I was lucky because as a
Thank you for having me. When i started it this will be too much information i cannot take it in is based on your knowledge and research over 70 interviews. And billy it is not so much about the cia director but the relationship to the white house and the president. Do you agree . Thank you for your kind words because what i really tried to do above all else is to humanize these directors and with his cast of characters those that were the quintessential cia director is a james bond character cigarette in one hand and the dry martini and another to walk into the oval office to tell lbj the domino theory was god and then Going Forward to me was the corleone of the cia and then you have okc and an amazing cast the characters all the way up to gina haskell the first woman to run the cia. The book focuses a lot on the relationship between the president and the cia director its almost an impossible balancing act for a cia director because he or she have to tell the president a hard truth wi
night with a fox news alert retaliatory airstrikes have begun in the middle east, according to the pentagon strikes against iranian backed militias in iraq and syria striking more than 85 targets, the u.s. says it hit command and control open raigsdz and intelligence centers. this comes after three american soldiers were killed dozens more injured in a drone strike in a base in jordan this past weekend. launched by of course iranian proxies. iran is responsible pretty much for all the trouble in the region. jennifer griffin live from the pentagon. any word why the targets were not in iran considering they re the source of these proxy and terror attacks? well sean officials i spoke to said they were ruling out striking inside iran in this first set of strikes, and they want to message to iran they re not tryinging to to war with iran. they re hoping iran gets the message based on these strikes against their proxies and against the irgc sites they hit tonight. the strikes las
with a fox news alert. retaliatory airstrikes have begun in the middle east. according to the pentagon the u.s. military conducted strikes against iranian backed militias in iraq and syria striking more than 85 targets. the u.s. says it hit command and control operations and intelligence centers. this comes after three american soldiers were killed and dozens more injured in a drone strike in a base in jordan this past weekend. launched by iranian proxies. iran is responsible for pretty much all the trouble in the region. here is jennifer griffin live from the pentagon. any word on why the targets were not in iran considering they are the source of all of these proxy attacks and terror attacks? sean, officials who i spoke to said they were ruling out striking inside iran in this first set of strikes. and they want to message to iran they are not trying to go to war with iran. they are hoping iran gets the message based on these strikes against their proxies and the irgc str
all right. we start this friday night with a foxes alert tonight, retaliatory ai r that began in the middle east. according to the pentagon, the u.s. the military conducted strikes against iranian backed militiass in iraq and syria, striking more than 85 targets. the u.s. says, it had commandmad and control operations and intelligence centers and. t now, this comes after three american soldiers were killed, dozens more injured in a drone strike in a base in jordan this past weekend. wen launched by, of course, iranian proxies. iran is responsiblian proxe preh for all the trouble in the region. here are the very latest on jennifer griffin live from the pentagon. jennifer, any word on whgon. y the targets were not in iran considering? o they are the source of all of these proxy attacks and terror attacks. well, sean, officials who ik? spoke to said that they were ruling out striking inside iran an this first set of strikes and they want to messageing to g to iran that they ar