Barack Obama discussed intelligence failures in a 2014 interview with CNN, which included Jake Tapper.

The entities involved

• CNN →

  American news channel

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• Barack Obama →

  president of the United States from 2009 to 2017 (born 1961)

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• Jake Tapper →

  American political journalist (born 1969)

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