Dennis C. Blair, a retired Navy admiral, served in the White House under Presidents Carter and Reagan, and later became President Obama's first Director of National Intelligence. In his last military job he was Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, leading all troops in Asia. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy (Oliver North was a classmate) and attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar (Bill Clinton was a classmate). He also served with former Utah Governor and U.S. Ambassador to China Jon M. Huntsman Jr. on the bipartisan Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property in 2013. What follows is a lightly edited Q&A with Admiral Blair, who is now a member of the Energy Leadership Council of Securing America's Future Energy, a non-partisan organization that aims to improve America's energy security.
Admiral Dennis BlairIllustration by Lauren Crow
Q: Let's start with your work with Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE). The organization released a
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