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...solemn responsibility" to protect the American people, according to a senior Administration official who attended the meeting. "I take that responsibility, and I take it very seriously," the President told his aides, making perfectly clear that there was no room for another series of errors. Shortly afterward, John Brennan, Obama's top White House counterterrorism aide, spoke. "There are things we could do better," he said. "I take my share of the responsibility in ensuring we have an up-to-date system that is agile and that challenges the assumptions the way this President wants...
Thomas J. Brennan ’10 of Lowell, Judith E. Fan ’10 of Leverett, Jessica C. Frisina ’10 of Mather, Gerald C. Tiu ’10 of Winthrop, Adam S. Travis ’10 of Mather, and Devon A. Youngblood ’10 of Mather will each receive $18,000 to spend the year after graduation on “purposeful” international travel...
...Brennan, a government concentrator, will travel to Tanzania next year to study the different perceptions of service to the community among the Maasai and Chagga tribes...
...This is a life-changing moment for me,” Brennan said. “At the end of the experience I’d like to be in a better position to help people and know how the best way to do that...
...Hayden didn't give up. He helped organize a group of former CIA directors to lobby Obama aides against the release. George Tenet, the CIA chief who presided over the harshest techniques, called his former aide John Brennan, now Obama's top counterterrorism adviser; Clinton CIA chief John Deutch called Deputy National Security Adviser Tom Donilon. Inside the West Wing, the former directors found that a small group of like-minded allies close to Obama was already forming in opposition to Craig. One was National Security Council (NSC) aide Denis McDonough, a former Senate staffer who has a windowless...