David Cohen, then undersecretary of the treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee in 2015. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
WASHINGTON — In 2015, David Cohen, then the second in command at the Central Intelligence Agency, led a deep-dive internal investigation into how the nation’s premier spy agency was adapting to the digital age, from shielding its undercover officers from exposure to making use of evolving technology to spy on enemies.
“We needed to up our game,” recalled former CIA Director John Brennan during an interview with Yahoo News.
When Brennan brought Cohen on to serve as his deputy in 2015, the director was in the process of an agency-wide reorganization — a shake-up still met by mixed reactions within the CIA’s internal ranks.
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