We first talked in 2011 a few months after Dagan had been ousted from his job by Prime Minister Netanyahu. It was clear he was still bitter about his ouster. He variously derided Netanyahu as a terrible manager and an incompetent warrior. Rightly or wrongly, Dagan believed that Netanyahu had gotten rid of him because the Mossad chief, like other Israeli intelligence leaders, opposed efforts by the prime minister to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities.
