I don’t have to go to work with the world on my shoulders.
You know, I’m just a broadcast journalist. A lot of people quit, and I understand the stress. It really is a family affair for many, many families of CIA officers, so thank you very much for that. Thank you for doing that, and I will absolutely pass it along. I often thank the families of people in military uniform, but not until I read your book did it really come home how your brutal schedule and the brutal schedule of everyone in the intelligence world is borne by the families. HH: I want to begin by first thanking Mary Beth, Sarah, Luke and Peter, and through them, all the families of the professionals who have sacrificed I this war. MM: Hugh, it is great to be with you, thank you for having me. Michael Morell, welcome to the program, it’s great to have you on. I think it’s a memoir of the sort I imagine George Marshall would have written if he had been serving in the last 14 years. It is required reading, actually, if you want to be coherent about the war. He served and worked closely with both President Bush and Obama, and this book is on my necessary bookshelf. He served George Tenet, Porter Goss, Mike Hayden, David Petraeus in senior positions. He was with him on 9/11, and our Agency’s representative in Great Britain to MI5 and MI6, finishing at the Agency, as I said, deputy director. Among his many jobs, he was the daily briefer for President Bush. He has continued to serve the country, including on the review group of the consequences of the Snowden treachery. He is the former CIA deputy director, 33 years in the Agency, including time as acting director. HH: I’m so pleased to begin the program today with Michael Morell. Here’s today’s interview, the second part of which will air on Monday’s show: The same message will go to the rest of the campaigns. It goes on to “The Necessary Bookshelf,” and I let two GOP presidential campaigns know this morning that, in my opinion, everyone on the campaign needs to read this book. Buy it, read it closely, get copies for your friends. His new book, The Great War of Our Time: The CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism written with the assistance of Bill Harlow, is the sort of memoir I imagine George C, Marshall might have written had he served for the first dozen years of this current war. He was President Bush’s briefer on the morning of 9/11 and indeed from the moment the 43rd president took office through the end of the fateful year of 2001, and he continued to serve in senior capacities under President Obama.
Mike Morell served the CIA for 33 years, finishing his career as the agency’s Deputy Director and with a stint as Acting Director.
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