A Conversation with Admiral J. Michael McConnell (Audio)
Listen to J. Michael McConnell, director of national security, discuss the changing role of the national intelligence community in the post...
Speaker: J. Michael McConnell, Admiral, U.S. Navy; Director of National Intelligence
Presider: J. Stapleton Roy, Managing Director, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
June 28, 2007
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