I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
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.
I think soon after I became director of the CIA - President Obama pulled me into the Oval Office and said: 'Look, I just want you to know that your top priority is to go after Osama bin Laden.'
Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.
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