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  • Insanity Claws

    Pulitzer-winning intelligence historian Tim Weiner discusses the latest wacky—and disturbing—news from inside the Trump administration’s national security team with SpyTalk host Jeff Stein

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    35 min
  • CIA Opened Oswald’s Mail!

    Host Michael Isikoff, JFK conspiracies-buster Fred Litwin, and national security analyst Peter Kornbluh dissect MAGA Rep. Anna Luna’s wacky hearing featuring Oliver Stone and other assassination plot zealots.

    Peter Kornbluh

    Fred Litwin

     

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    44 min
  • "There's not a day I do not think about those Americans" who died in Iraq

    Luis Rueda, once the director of the CIA's Iraq Operations Group, reflects with Michael on the many mistakes the U.S. government made during the war in Iraq-- and the fatal consequences. 

    Luis Rueda

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    1 hr 2 min
  • A Former CIA Spy Catcher Weighs Trump’s Russia Turn

    Sue Miller not only headed CIA Counterintelligence, among other high positions during her 39-year career. She oversaw the agency's controversial assessment of Russian interference in the 2016 election. And she thinks Trump’s pro-Russia moves should be an ongoing counterintelligence concern. 
     


     

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    39 min
  • Vindman: Putin is "Toying" with Trump

    The star player in Trump’s first impeachment tells Michael Isikoff  there will no ceasefire in Ukraine and calls DC prosecutor a “henchman” for launching bogus probe of him and his brother. 

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    49 min
  • What's Ukraine Thinking?

    Former senior CIA operations official Glenn Corn talks with Jeff Stein about his recent trip to Ukraine and its prospects in a rapidly and radically changing diplomatic landscape

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    37 min
  • The Ghosts of Munich

    Former US NATO envoy and Army General Doug Lute discusses JD Vance insults of allies, administration abandonment of Ukraine to Russia with SpyTalk podcast host Michael Isikoff.

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    41 min
  • Trump’s CIA and Russia

    Veteran former senior CIA operations official Bill Murray talks with Jeff Stein about the challenges of countering aggressive Russian intelligence ops, from the Cold War to Trump II’s radical policy shifts toward Moscow.

    William D Murray - Vice-President and co-founder - Council on Intelligence Issues | LinkedIn

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    39 min
  • Betrayal: Trump Justice Department’s War on the FBI

    Former top FBI counterterrorism agent Chris O’Leary tells host Michael Isikoff how Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove was a diligent prosecutor of Jan. 6 rioters before he turned on his teammates at Trump's behest.

     

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    55 min
  • How Might Trump Deploy DHS Intelligence?

    Former Senior DHS Intelligence Counsel Spencer Reynolds talks with host Jeff Stein about the troubled past and uncertain future of the agency’s Intelligence & Analysis wing under President Trump.

    More from Spencer Reynolds
    https://www.brennancenter.org/experts/spencer-reynolds

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    41 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…