SpyTalk

By SpyTalk, Jeff SteinNews Government News Commentary Politics

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February 27 War Fever
Trump, Iran at fateful crossroads, top Middle East expert Jon Alterman says on the SpyTalk podcast.
Jon Alterman — https://www.csis.org/people/jon-b-alterman

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59 min
February 21 Who Is on the DOJ's Secret "Domestic Terror" List
Congressmember Mary Gay Scanlon speaks with SpyTalk's Michael Isikoff about the secretive government list of “domestic terrorist groups” Attorney General all but confirmed the existence of in her recent trip to The Hill.
Then Karen Greenberg and Michael Isikoff talk with writer and retired American FBI agent, Mike German about the implications and consequences of the NSPM7 memo and the FISA court.

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57 min
February 13 What’s Going on with Tulsi Gabbard?
Former senior CIA official Larry Pfeiffer discusses the DNI’s strange behavior with SpyTalk hosts Jeff Stein, Michael Isikoff and Karen Greenberg.
Larry Pfeiffer | https://www.linkedin.com/in/larrypfeiffer/

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51 min
February 05 The New Wizards of Espionage
How A.I. is revolutionizing the spies’—and spy catchers’—toolkits. With ex-CIA officer Aaron Brown.
Aaron Brown | https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-brown-lumbra/

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51 min
January 31 Terror’s Comeback
ISIS and other Afghan-based terror groups are growing stronger, a new UN report says. Expert Colin Clarke explains why.

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44 min
January 23 Battlefield Greenland
Former senior Danish intelligence officer Jacob Kaarsbo talks about Trump’s murky designs on Greenland and NATO.
https://jacobkaarsbo.substack.com/

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46 min
January 16 Will the Iranian Regime Survive?
Two prominent Iranian-American journalists, Jason Rezaian of the Washington Post and Hooman Majd of NBC News, say the regime may be losing its grip.
Jason Rezaian
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jason-rezaian/
Hooman Majd
https://www.hoomanmajd.com/
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52 min
January 09 Gulp of America
CIA in Venezuela, Cuba and Beyond
With Luis Rueda
https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-rueda-b060a217/
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Peter Eisner
https://substack.com/@petereisner
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40 min
January 02 Her Grandfather Was a Nazi Spy
Christine Kuehn talks about her shocking discovery in “Family of Spies"
Family of Spies
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250344465/familyofspies/
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44 min
December 19, 2025 The House of Secrets
Tom Blanton talks about 40 years of unearthing CIA plots at the National Security Archive.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/
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53 min

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SpyTalk lives at the intersection of intelligence operations, foreign policy, homeland security, and military strategy. Hosted by veteran national security journalists Jeff Stein, Michael Isikoff…