The Hill: Haspel delivers first public remarks as Trump’s CIA chief
Gina Haspel delivered her first public address as CIA director on Monday, offering a robust endorsement of the clandestine foreign intelligence service she leads and laying out her priorities in her first months on the job.
In a speech at the University of Louisville, her alma mater, Haspel said the CIA is working to prioritizing closing the “strategic intelligence gaps” by focusing more intelligence gathering on nation-state adversaries, rather than terrorist groups.
Haspel, the CIA’s first female director, also pledged to “champion diversity and inclusion” among the intelligence agency’s ranks and to invest more in the CIA’s counternarcotics operations overseas.
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WNU Editor: Her presentation begins at the 1:01:40 mark in the video below:
