David Priess

David Priess is an intelligence and national security speaker and consultant who served at the CIA during the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations as an analyst, manager, and daily intelligence briefer. He is the author of The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s Presidents From Kennedy to Obama.
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U.S. President Donald Trump stands alongside Gina Haspel before she is sworn in as director of the Central Intelligence Agency during a ceremony at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia on May 21. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
U.S. President Donald Trump stands alongside Gina Haspel before she is sworn in as director of the Central Intelligence Agency during a ceremony at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia on May 21. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

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