How has the War On Terror changed the CIA?

How has the War On Terror changed the CIA?

The War on Terror has changed the CIA in that it shifted our overall mission. We had the Cold War, which lasted for several decades. It was the Cold War that tended to govern the way that the CIA did things, the way that it did training, and the way that we conducted operations. Traditionally, Russia and the Eastern Bloc and Eastern Europe was our primary focus. Somehow we missed the collapse of the Soviet Union, in terms of our predictions. As a result of there no longer being a Soviet Bloc, our attention has been shifted elsewhere. And the terrorist attacks, particularly those of September 11, 2001, really changed the way the CIA looked at the world. It was a real wake-up call to the CIA, about how we have to train our officers and where we have to focus our energies, because that's the primary threat that the CIA, and that this country, faces now.