John Kiriakou
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Well, I can tell you how President George H.W.
Bush did it and how President George W. Bush did it.
It's a process.
Right.
You have to... Formal.
Formal process.
You have to commission estimates from the intelligence community.
You commission...
intelligence, finished intelligence reports from the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence.
You get an idea of what the State Department is thinking about it.
You're talking to your Secretaries of State and Defense, the National Security Advisor.
But then, and I think this is even as important,
you need to talk to your friends and allies.
You need to know what the European countries are saying or seeing.
And then our Gulf allies, the Arab allies, we really needed to engage with all of them.
And then-
There's going to be a consensus at some point, at least among most of those countries.
And then you come up with a policy.
I think that that's not what took place in this case.
As you know, you've heard the same criticisms that I've heard in the Gulf