What is the 'Office of the General Counsel'?

What is the 'Office of the General Counsel'?

Ronald Kessler (Author of "The Terrorist Watch: Inside The Desperate Race To Stop The Next Attack") gives expert video advice on: What are the divisions of the CIA?; What is the 'Center for the Study of Intelligence'?; What is the 'Office of the General Counsel'? and more...

The Office of the General Counsel, as you might suspect, is the legal side of the CIA. It has over 100 lawyers. There are so many very delicate, sensitive questions that they have to address in this open society that we have, where they also do all this secret work. it's a very, very important part of the CIA.