Bill Nelson: “It is not only, interestingly, those who are directly in the services of the CIA now, but it is also the retirees. I…”

“It is not only, interestingly, those who are directly in the services of the CIA now, but it is also the retirees. I will never forget being in an almost deserted embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, after September 11. I heard my name being called. I turned around, and I saw an elderly looking gentleman, and he recalled how we knew each other back when I was in the House of Representatives. I said: What in the world are you doing here? We were getting ready to do a raid in 5 cities simultaneously that night, of which we got 50 al-Qaida, and we got the No. 3 guy. And, lo and behold, he was a retired CIA agent they brought back in the aftermath of September 11, when we were trying to catch up until we could get the new guys trained. They reached out, and they got the old guys who had all the knowledge.”