Idon’t sleep a lot,” Sue Gordon admits over Zoom. Like most of us, the onslaught of headlines landing in our feeds at any given moment keeps the former principal deputy director of national intelligence—a Donald Trump appointee in 2017 who was famously forced to resign in 2019 —up at night. Although, as a 29-year veteran of the CIA, Gordon has never been big on rest. Throughout her career, she has served as an analyst, helped build spacecraft, managed weapon systems, worked in combat support, and held leadership positions in the technology sector, supporting national security. “I became known as the person you called when you needed something done,” she says. As PDDNI, Gordon oversaw 17 agencies and organizations comprised of roughly 100,000 people and a budget of more than $80 billi

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