Woodward on Air Talk on CIA Director Nominee Gina Haspel
John D. Woodward, Jr., Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed for a radio segment on United States President Donald Trump’s decision to replace Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State with CIA Director Mike Pompeo. Woodward discussed CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel, who President Trump nominated to take over the CIA Director position.
Woodward was interviewed for a March 13, 2018 segment on KPCC’s Air Talk entitled “Rexit: Tillerson Out, Pompeo In. The Future of the State Department and CIA.”
You can listen to the entire segment below:
Woodward is a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who, during his twenty-year CIA career, served as an operations officer in the Clandestine Service and as a technical intelligence officer in the Directorate of Science and Technology, with assignments in Washington D.C., East Asia, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. He also served as the Director of the U.S. Department of Defense Biometrics Management Office from 2003-2005 where he received the Army’s third highest civilian award for his work on using biometric technologies to identify national security threats.