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Published · transcript-backedJohn O. Brennan: belief
16 Dec 2020 Conversations with Tyler John O. Brennan on Life in the CIA
“There are ways to communicate outside. But I think that there are a lot of distractions that come with phones.”
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- John O. Brennan
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- belief
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- 16 Dec 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…My question is much more mundane. When you have all the workers with no smartphones, do they get more done? Or is there no benefit? [laughs] I think there are certainly benefits to it. The CIA officers leave the phones in their car or whatever, so they can go out and be able to talk to their family or whatever else. There are ways to communicate outside. But I think that there are a lot of distractions that come with phones. You can go off in pursuit of various tangents as you get more and more curious about certain things. Now, agency officers have access to computers and the internet, but even there, we’ve had to take steps to make sure that people don’t go down wrong paths. How accurate is personality testing for workers?…
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