Ok, so sometimes I'm dumb. Sue me. This time I overwrote or deleted the first several minutes of my dialogue with Conor. So you're being dropped right into the middle of the action. We start off talking about Donald Rumsfeld's memos and how together with Dick Cheney he advocated the hunt for WMDs and war in Iraq. Other major topics of this episode include the Afghanistan Papers, the Panama Papers and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The upcoming Part 3 will highlight several remaining major pieces of a vastly complex story: Edward Snowden and Stellar Wind's mass surveillance, the Donald Trump Impeachment saga and tensions with Iran.

One final note—Congratulations to Conor and his soon-to-be wife Kellyn who are getting married this weekend. I truly wish I could be there to celebrate with them and act like an idiot. Mozeltov! (This is the first time I can say that as a Jew thanks to my sister revealing 2% ancestry from a genetic test)