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National security reporter for the Washington Post Zachary Dorfman discusses the Pentagon’s plan for a deep-cover spy program.

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Zach Dorfman - The Washington Post

Pentagon looks to build a deep-cover spy program to confront China - The Washington Post

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Janet Reitman’s The Inheritance is a portrait of 9/11’s devastating consequences,

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Janet Reitman

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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2193929/janet-reitman/

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Brian Driscoll joins SpyTalk to discuss the circumstances of his dismissal from the FBI and how the Bureau’s current leadership is destroying the institution and making us less safe in the process.

Driscoll was fired from the FBI shortly after he refused to fire agents based solely on their involvement in the January 6th and Mar-a-Lago investigations.

Our guest:

Brian Driscoll

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CNBC’s Eamon Javers weaves a cautionary tale for US officials.

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Investigative reporter John Dinges tells how Henry Kissinger failed to prevent Chile’s 1976 murder of Orlando Letelier in downtown D.C.

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When Terrorists Struck in the Heart of Washington, D.C. | SpyTalk

Books by author John Dinges

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Sharon Weinberger on how Big Tech is fueling the future of war.

Sharon Weinberger talks about her latest book Valley of Death

How Big Tech Is Fueling the Future of War.

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A greater array of better-armed threats confronts the US than on 9/11.

Terrorism and insurgency expert Bruce Hoffman joins the podcast to discuss the current state of Al-Qaeda and its affiliates in the world

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Peter Bergen on the triumphs and tragedies wrought by 9/11.

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https://www.peterbergen.com/

His latest book:

All the Presidents' Wars

Twenty-Five Years of America's War on Terror - Bookshop.org US

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Former CIA operations officer and member of CIA's Senior Intelligence Service (SIS-3) turned author, Jim Lawler joins Micheal to discuss real world espionage, spy recruitment, and his latest spy novel.

The Traitor’s Tale by Jim Lawler

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Former CIA Chief Learning Officer Steve Hirsch tells how Russia, China, and Iran exploit the cracks in US intelligence.

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Joby Warrick joined SpyTalk to talk about “The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World’s First Super-Terrorist.”

Check out the book:

The Jackal

The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World's First

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Political pressure on the spy agency is forcing people out, says former senior analyst Julia Curlee.

More From Julia Curlee at | https://www.lawfaremedia.org/contributors/jcurlee

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Former FBI executive Lauren Anderson on the Director’s China, Russia outreaches.

Lauren C. Anderson | https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurencandersonintl/

https://laurencanderson.substack.com/

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Wall Street Journal reporter Bojan Pancevski unveils the astounding story of Ukraine’s sabotage of the Russian pipeline.

Plus, Jeff and Michael discuss Jay Clayton, Todd Blanche, and more.

Read Bojan’s book

The Nord Stream Conspiracy

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Atlantic staff writer Shane Harris drills down on the changes roiling the ODNI and CIA.

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Terrorism expert Colin Clarke fact-checks the administration’s claims on leftwing extremism and election security.

More from our guest: Colin P. Clarke

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Tom LoBianco answered an ad for a writer and then things went south.

Tom LoBianco is a veteran national politics reporter and editor of 24sight News, the independent news site on Substack.

24sight's scoops have been featured in The New York Times, CNN, ABC News, the Reddit front page, the Columbia Journalism Review and many other outlets.

Tom LoBianco

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Seeing-eye bombs were supposed to limit civilian casualties. Jeffrey Stern, author of “The Warhead,” explains why they didn’t.

Jeffrey Stern

The Warhead

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Jeffrey E. Stern is an award-winning journalist and the author of five books, including his newest book The Warhead, The 15:17 to Paris, which was adapted as a major motion picture by Clint Eastwood and Warner Brothers, and The Last Thousand: One School’s Promise in a Nation at War, an honorable mention for best book of the year by Library Journal. Stern co-wrote and produced the award-winning independent film Yasmeen’s Element, which premiered at the SXSW film festival and was named a “best of the fest.” He has been named a graduate fellow at the Stanford Center for International Conflict and Negotiation and a grantee of the Pulitzer Center Fellow for Crisis Reporting. Stern’s reporting has appeared in magazines such as The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic.

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New York Times Intelligence Reporter Julian Barnes on the Rise of Bill Pulte.

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Julian E. Barnes

Writes about the American intelligence community, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and other spy agencies, as well as broader national and international security issues. His stories seek to break news about what intelligence officials are thinking, and occasionally doing, and to explain the U.S. perspective on security matters.

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Former senior CIA analyst David Kanin on the crises in US intelligence.

David Kanin is a retired CIA senior analyst and member of the Senior Intelligence Service.

https://commonsensecoalition.net/about-csc/

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