Woodward Interviewed on the Shutdown and National Security
John D. Woodward, Jr., Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was interviewed for a recent article on how the government shutdown has impacted United States national security.
Woodward was quoted in a January 25, 2019 article in Mother Jones entitled “Trump Shut Down the Government to Protect National Security. He Hurt It Instead.”
From the text of the article:
“The government shutdown does what Russia, China, Iran, terrorist groups, and transnational criminals all want to do: make American intelligence and security less effective,” saysJohn D. Woodward Jr., a former CIA officer and Boston University professor who haswritten aboutthe effect of government shutdowns on national security.
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.