time. indeed, the cia has a wonderful study of intelligence success. though in fashion to typical to our community, it is classified. it talks about the various intelligence analyses. what it makes clear is that the successes resulted not from a sparkling single analysis from a but from a process over time where intelligence analysts could better understand what policy people needed, and policy people could calibrate and direct to some extent with the intelligent analysts work on. it is a process that i think raises two questions that were themes this morning. one is, you can imagine lots of possible ways that we intelligence could support presidents daily. so what is the best way? in particular, how best to manage the balance between immediately tactical, reporting information and more strategic thinking? my role at the national intelligence council is meant to be very strategic. we are dominated by current intelligence. our challenge is trying to think, how do we get the
changes that have been made. they also talk about the cia, department of defense, and the white house during the nixon administration. it has been closely guarded and in great demand since they were created during the kennedy administration. there were lots of individuals in the chain that made this possible, but i want to publicly joe during his time as an archivist. he truly embodied the slogan, releasing all we can, protecting what we must. thanks, joe, for making that happen. [applause] with an advance copy of today s release, i had an opportunity to did in and go through the history through the lens of the daily brief. i immediately went to five marks of 1970, the first marine my firstinto nam, and day in the country. not that i expected to see my name prominently announced in the presidential daily brief, but i was curious about what was going on. related to vietnam, and the principal developments of that , the middle east policy, which troops are coming back from egy
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