When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.

My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.

Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.

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