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The Jordan Harbinger Show
John Brennan narrated his own book, discussing his unconventional career path leading to the CIA, dealing with international crises, and the challenges of operating clandestinely in the digital age.
I read in the book that you and we'll link to that in the show notes that you were sworn in as CIA director on an actual draft copy of the Constitution with George Washington's notes on it.
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John Brennan narrated his own book, discussing his unconventional career path leading to the CIA, dealing with international crises, and the challenges of operating clandestinely in the digital age.
I read in the book that you and we'll link to that in the show notes that you were sworn in as CIA director on an actual draft copy of the Constitution with George Washington's notes on it.
There's a comment in the book that you made about diversity inside the C.I.A. in fact, I'm going to find it in my notes here because this segway is pretty well with that you took actually quite a bit of flack for focusing on diversity inside the C.I.A.
I heard your grandfather used to smuggle documents for the IRA. I guess he was a human fax machine back then.
There's a story in the book about somebody getting caught stealing food from the CIA cafeteria and it sounds it sounds funny right it sounds kind of silly but you mentioned that this shows a lack of integrity and has no place in the agency and that totally makes sense I wouldn't want somebody working for my company if they were going in the refrigerator and taking my lunch out and eating it and then lying about it right so what happens if you get caught doing something like that at CIA do you get fired or is it kind of like hey man stop eating other people's lunches what's going on there
You have a funny disguise story that's in the book as well tell me about escorting this Middle Eastern military officer and his family some people may find it funny but I found it embarrassing.