David McCloskey

gives the president the ability to sort of bound reality uh you know what might happen what could happen what would it mean for us in different scenarios so that's an example of something that i wrote and then briefed uh downtown to you

know to the white house to the national security council and analysts who work on russia you know analysts who are working on all these different regions and countries you know are sort of topics today are are answering similar questions uh depending on what might be going on so when you go to work as an analyst for the cia

know to the white house to the national security council and analysts who work on russia you know analysts who are working on all these different regions and countries you know are sort of topics today are are answering similar questions uh depending on what might be going on so when you go to work as an analyst for the cia

know to the white house to the national security council and analysts who work on russia you know analysts who are working on all these different regions and countries you know are sort of topics today are are answering similar questions uh depending on what might be going on so when you go to work as an analyst for the cia

It feels, now after having done analysis for other companies since I've left, what I will say is it does feel special. And the reason it feels special is because you are dealing with stolen information, and you're dealing with information as a result that other people cannot access.

It feels, now after having done analysis for other companies since I've left, what I will say is it does feel special. And the reason it feels special is because you are dealing with stolen information, and you're dealing with information as a result that other people cannot access.

It feels, now after having done analysis for other companies since I've left, what I will say is it does feel special. And the reason it feels special is because you are dealing with stolen information, and you're dealing with information as a result that other people cannot access.

And one of the fundamental, I think, highs of the place is that you can be sort of led to believe and oftentimes, I think, with reason that you are kind of in the inner ring. You have access to stuff other people don't, which is a thrill. So I think for me, as I look back on it, I think, yeah, it is a special place because it has a very special mission and it's got access to very special stuff.

And one of the fundamental, I think, highs of the place is that you can be sort of led to believe and oftentimes, I think, with reason that you are kind of in the inner ring. You have access to stuff other people don't, which is a thrill. So I think for me, as I look back on it, I think, yeah, it is a special place because it has a very special mission and it's got access to very special stuff.

And one of the fundamental, I think, highs of the place is that you can be sort of led to believe and oftentimes, I think, with reason that you are kind of in the inner ring. You have access to stuff other people don't, which is a thrill. So I think for me, as I look back on it, I think, yeah, it is a special place because it has a very special mission and it's got access to very special stuff.

And there's something inherently, even though, you know, I feel bad, Mike, I deflated you a little bit by saying, you know, it's not explosions and car chases and Jack Ryan. I think there's something very special about the place that

And there's something inherently, even though, you know, I feel bad, Mike, I deflated you a little bit by saying, you know, it's not explosions and car chases and Jack Ryan. I think there's something very special about the place that

And there's something inherently, even though, you know, I feel bad, Mike, I deflated you a little bit by saying, you know, it's not explosions and car chases and Jack Ryan. I think there's something very special about the place that

Even now, me as an alum, I still feel, I think I feel a fondness for that work because I felt like I was contributing to something that was bigger than myself and doing something that frankly was really cool.

Even now, me as an alum, I still feel, I think I feel a fondness for that work because I felt like I was contributing to something that was bigger than myself and doing something that frankly was really cool.

Even now, me as an alum, I still feel, I think I feel a fondness for that work because I felt like I was contributing to something that was bigger than myself and doing something that frankly was really cool.

I do think you have to separate, or at least acknowledge that the CIA of... the 50s and 60s and even early 70s is not the CIA of today, right? The CIA that really helped kind of overthrow governments in Iran in 53 or in Syria later that decade in 56, I think, and in Guatemala and the CIA that was actually, you know,

I do think you have to separate, or at least acknowledge that the CIA of... the 50s and 60s and even early 70s is not the CIA of today, right? The CIA that really helped kind of overthrow governments in Iran in 53 or in Syria later that decade in 56, I think, and in Guatemala and the CIA that was actually, you know,

I do think you have to separate, or at least acknowledge that the CIA of... the 50s and 60s and even early 70s is not the CIA of today, right? The CIA that really helped kind of overthrow governments in Iran in 53 or in Syria later that decade in 56, I think, and in Guatemala and the CIA that was actually, you know,

in some cases, spying on Americans in the 60s, the CIA that was experimenting with psychedelic, you know, drugs on people. Like, this organization doesn't, that organization doesn't exist anymore. That was a far less institutionalized, that was finding its way at the height of the Cold War and essentially operated as the president's black bag outfit.