As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist is to write realistically about where they're actually going.
Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.
People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we think about security.
What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.
You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.