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One Of The Toughest Battles In Intelligence Is Combating Conventional Wisdom.

Some People Have Said, In So Many Words, That I'm Kind Of Wooly-headed In Believing That The Iranians Would See Not Having Nuclear Weapons As More In Their Security Interest Than Not.

I Fired A Lot Of Senior People Myself And I Think The Key, When You Feel Compelled To Remove A Senior Official, Is Essentially To Have All Your Ducks In A Row At The Beginning. Have Everybody Understand What The Rationale Was.

No President Is Well-served By Groupthink Or By Everybody Singing From The Same Sheet Of Music They Think He's On.

It Has Become Clear That America's Civilian Institutions Of Diplomacy And Development Have Been Chronically Undermanned And Underfunded For Far Too Long - Relative To What We Spend On The Military, And More Important, Relative To The Responsibilities And Challenges Our Nation Has Around The World.