Bishop is thrilled to work with his colleague & friend, Director Haspel, again. Years ago, when DCIA was a senior operations officer, & Bishop a senior analyst, they worked together on difficult missions from opposite sides of the Agency directorate structure.
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DCIA Haspel & DDCIA Bishop believe close collaboration & communication across directorates is critical to fulfilling the CIA’s mission. As Bishop likes to say: managing between the white spaces on the org chart, the spaces between the directorates, is a powerful force multiplier.
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Born in Indiana to parents who had grown up on farms in the rural Midwest, Bishop attended
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After doing his dissertation field research in Kano, Nigeria, Bishop was looking forward to a life in academia & began his teaching career at
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Bishop’s first assignment with us was in a small unit where his job was to drive the need for & value of social science methodologies in the art of analysis. “…a much harder sell in 1981 than it is today.”
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A major Agency reorg in the early 1980s required Bishop to choose a distinct career path: social science methodology or a regional expertise. He chose Africa. But his passion for analytic methods, teaching, & exploring new tools of inquiry stayed with him throughout his career.
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Bishop’s leadership philosophy is encompassed by a simple saying: stop, look, listen, learn It’s how he approaches every new assignment. Bishop believes that the importance of listening cannot be overstated & is a valuable leadership trait & one that is too often underused.
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Throughout his career, Bishop held a number of expert-level analyst & senior management positions across a diverse range of regional & functional mission areas. He also led his share of crisis response teams.
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As CIA’s new Deputy Director, Vaughn Bishop brings to the office a contagious enthusiasm & love for the work, an uncanny ability to inspire, a 35-cent framed picture of FDR, a photo of golfing with friends in Scotland, & countless pictures of his grandson.
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As part of DCIA Haspel’s leadership team, Bishop brings decades of experience & wisdom. “I’ve always believed CIA is a unique & special place,” says Bishop. “I consider it the privilege of a lifetime to serve as a steward of this great institution.” http://bit.ly/2w5HzB3
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You mean new head of manufacturing Terrorism in the world
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Looking forward to Trump attacking him
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Anyone appointed under the Trump administration is immediately suspect, and tainted.
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Not this guy. He’s the real deal. With real integrity and expertise.
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Unfortunately, he'll be tarred with the Trump brush. There's no way Trump would allow the appointment of anyone not 'friendly' and loyal to him, rather than to the country.
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Nope. Vaughn Bishop’s loyalty is to this country. Not to any president.
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Did you know him? Have you worked for him? I have. Others have. I’ll take that knowledge over your assumptions any day of the week.
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As a so-called analyst, you haven’t done a very good job of comprehending what I wrote. It doesn’t matter who or what he is—God himself would be tainted by virtue of a Trump-approved
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Is Mattis tainted? No one with a pristine career of service to their nation who is called to serve and steps up to answer it will be tainted by association with this president. If anyone is tainted, it will be b/c they pursue policies or actions that taint them.
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