How much time does the president spend with the CIA?
In the morning, when the President receives the briefing from the Director of National Intelligence, CIA officers accompany him, and so he spends time with them then. He spends time probably almost every day with some CIA official, in order to help develop strategy. Bush also periodically visits the CIA and the NCTC, which is the Counter Terrorism Center, which combines the FBI and the CIA and other intelligence agencies, trying to get all their information together, analyze it all together. When they say the FBI and the CIA don't talk to each other, the fact is, at the NCTC, they actually sit side by side, 24 hours a day, analyzing information.