master and alter our responses, our solutions and our actions. watch the rest of this program visit our website booktv.org. search for aaron brockovich and the title of her book superman s not coming using the box at the top of the page. my name is karen greenberg, thank you for joining us at the center of national security, we are delighted to bring you this afternoon s conversation, joining me is award-winning author, journalist, documentary maker his new book is the spy ministers, can you see? how the cia director s shape history in the future. we are going to talk a lot about this book today. welcome, thank you for joining us. thank you so much for having me. this is a wonderful read. when i started i was like oh no, this is going to be too much information. i won t be able to take it in. it is fantastic. in addition to your own knowledge and research it is based on 70 interviews and you interviewed among those the directors of the cia, living directors of the cia
my name is karen. thank you for joining us here at the center on national security. we are delighted to be bringing you this afternoon s conversation. with me today is award-winning author, journalist, documentary maker. his new book is the spymaster s 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. it s 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 won t be able to take it in but it s fantastic. it s based on your own knowledge and research over 70 interviews and among those the directors of the cia except for the current ones and it s 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 wa
up and wondering who these people are. we would play directors jeopardy. i have not done this before. it may fall flat. or i may spend the rest of the night doing that. let s start with this. longest-serving director of central intelligence. and you can shout out the name. allen dulles, correct. and there is right there. conversely, i m the shortest serving director. pompeo was in for the better part of the year. so was george bush. schlesinger, almost. he was in for about a year and a half. we have to go way back. the first one. he was a crony of harry truman. he made it very clear when he took the job that he only wanted to serve a few months. he was not experienced. truman wanted a figurehead who could get the intelligence group up and running. i am the only convicted felon richard hounds. regrettably. he was caught in a pretty nasty gotcha episode. he was testifying before the senate foreign relations during his hearings before he went out to iran and was asked by senator
hosts. i will ask everyone to stand up for an moment. please stand up. up.d stand up. thank you. i would like you all to raise your right hand. fantastic. i want you to look around at your colleagues and friends and such here. fantastic. now you can all sit down. when you look across the room here, you saw people standing with their right hand up. what i would like you to know is that is what every single member of the united states intelligence community does at their first airport. they stand up, raise their right hand, and they swear and earth. does atar an their first day of work. they stand up, raise their right hand, they seawear an oath. that oath is to protect and defend the constitution of the united states of america. it is bear true and faith and allegiance to that constitution and the laws derived from that constitution. and it is to well and faithfully discharge the duties of their office. it is a powerful moment for anyone who has ever experienced it. it sets
thank you for coming to the national press club. i am mark rozell and i with the charter town of government at george mason university and we host the michael hayden center for intelligent policy and international security. welcome to spy watchers. this promises to be a wonderful program. if you don t know the charter school policy government is one of 10 schools and colleges at george mason university. we are 2000 students strong and 11 different degree programs in arlington, virginia, and fairfax, virginia. among highly, the masters degree programs. and ranked at number 3. and and for the past 10 years, michael hayden has been a gem in the classroom and public servant throughout all his life. we are honored to have him on the george mason university faculty and to be hosting the michael hayden center. we all wish michael a speedy recovery so he can get back to the public square. he is such an important powerful voice in the sphere of public debate and discourse during diffi