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I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. [david reading onscreen text] while you were in afghanistan, the effort to capture Osama Bin Laden was going forward. Capture or kill. Capture or kill. How were you alerted to that . Because you werent directly in the chain of command for that decision. Yup. That night no one else in our headquarters knew at all. And i got up myself, no aides, no anything else, went into the we had a joint special Operations Command post at the nato headquarters in kabul where i was located. I wen...

The way quickly so im going to try to do that. I would like to welcome everybody to Daniel Morgan graduate school of National Security. A great school we have here and a nice opportunity for us to have the latest in a series of speakers at the National Security area, and also thanks to cspan3 people who are here today as well. I started off as a Clandestine Services in the cia in the soviet division, and we were always curious as to what the military people were doing on the other side. Today i get to find out at long last. Jim stejskal is here, our speaker. He has a new book special forces be...

Some of you know me. Im ron marks. I head up the Intelligence Program here. Before we begin our session, and talk about our speaker and everybody gets to sit down, i would like to make sure there is q a at the end, if everybody would be so kind as to shut off your cell phones. Frank fletcher, who is our head of Public Affairs here, has a very large and heavy mike. Hell run to you and get you. So be careful. Were dealing with dangerous people here. The best thing someone who introduces can do is get out of the way quickly so im going to try to do that. I would like to welcome everybody to Danie...

All right. I do not consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on a life of reading and interviewer even a day job of running a private equity firm. General, thank you very much for coming. Thank you. Good to be with you. You served our country for some time. Now you are in something you might consider a higher calling of mankind, private equity. [laughter] dir. Mulvaney david how do you compare being in the military to being in private equity. Am lucky to be in the private agribusiness and also in academia. I think it is pretty hard to to...

I will just leave it this way. All right. I dont consider myself a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even know i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . General, thank you very much for coming. General petraeus pleasure, thanks, great to be with you. You served our country for quite david a while. now you are in something you might consider a higher calling of mankind, private equity. [laughter] how do you compare being in the military to b...