Former CIA Director John Brennan has dealt with almost all of the country's major security challenges over the past two decades. In a new memoir, 'Undaunted,' the former U.S. spy chief directs his criticism at President Trump.
Gone are the days when national security chiefs quietly retired and perhaps wrote a discreet book a few years later recounting their years of service in understated tones. National security leaders, including former CIA directors, are as outspoken as anyone in the post-Sept. 11 era, and Brennan is the most outspoken of all.
Yet Brennan, who spent his early years as an intelligence analyst, provides relatively little analysis of how these dramas have reshaped U.S. national security and what lies ahead. "The description of the interrogation session was graphic and stomach turning," he adds."It recounted the repeated waterboarding applications and how Abu Zubaydah frequently gagged and threw up."
He raised this with then-CIA Director George Tenet that evening but didn't press the issue. Brennan said he was not directly involved in the interrogation program but chastises himself for not doing more to stop it. But Brennan doesn't say whether Haspel has been able to do her job effectively while dealing with a president who has repeatedly ignored or rejected intelligence the agency has presented to him about Russia.
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