Podcast appearances and mentions of Valerie Plame

Former undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame was outed by The Bush Administration when her husband exposed the lie behind the claim of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq that was used as justification for the U.S. to invade. - A REAL government conspiracy

Ever wonder what spy books former CIA spy Valerie Plame can't put down? Today on Spybrary, host Shane Whaley is joined by none other than Valerie Plame—former CIA covert operative, bestselling author, and an iconic voice in the world of intelligence and espionage. For over a decade, Valerie Plame served on the front lines of national security, operating undercover in some of the world's most complex and volatile environments. Her CIA career—and the controversial public outing that ended it—has been the subject of headlines, books, and a major Hollywood film 'Fair Game' Now, Valerie Plame joins us for a very different kind of mission—her Spybrary Dead Drop 5. She'll reveal the five spy books she'd choose to stash in a hidden drop in East Berlin, the titles she'd rely on during a covert operation behind the Iron Curtain. From childhood favorites to deeply researched histories, Valerie's picks promise intrigue, insight, and a few surprises. Strap in—this is going to be a Spybrary episode to remember. The Dead Drop 5 is back! In this much-requested Spybrary feature, our guest is embedded behind the Iron Curtain and can request five spy books, a gadget, luxury items and more from their handler. Before we get to Valerie Plame's five favourite books do check out her event Spies at Seas. Valerie and her team have kindly offered a discount for Spybrarians.

Valerie Plame's clandestine life made headlines in 2003 after her CIA cover was leaked to the press. Her husband, an ambassador, had gone to Niger to investigate whether yellowcake uranium had been transferred to Iraq to make weapons of mass destruction.  He publicly challenged the Bush administration on what we now know was false intelligence. Valerie's unmasking was seen as retaliation. Now, over 20 years later, she reflects on the political scandal, and where her concerns lie today. If you liked this episode, check out these links: Author Debriefing: Burned with Valerie Plame National Security Now: An Evening with Gina Bennett and Peter Bergen Join Valerie aboard the Spies at Sea cruise August 30 - September 8, 2025! On this 10-day voyage across the Mediterranean, you'll explore beautiful sights and ancient cities while immersing yourself in the world of espionage with exclusive seminars. Learn more here: https://www.spiesliesnukes.com/spies-at-seas-2025  Subscribe to Sasha's Substack, HUMINT, to get more intelligence stories: https://sashaingber.substack.com/ And if you have feedback or want to hear about a particular topic, you can reach us by E-mail at SpyCast@Spymuseum.org.  This show is brought to you from Goat Rodeo, Airwave, and the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stand Up is a daily podcast that I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more GET TICKETS TO PODJAM II In Vegas March 27-30 Confirmed Guests! Professor Eric Segall, Dr Aaron Carroll, Maura Quint, Tim Wise, JL Cauvin, Ophira Eisenberg, Christian Finnegan and More! Born in the Great State of New Jersey, Dean Obeidallah's comedy comes in large part from his unique background of being the son of a Palestinian father and a Sicilian mother. Dean, an award winning comedian who was at one time a practicing attorney, co-starred on Comedy Central's “The Axis of Evil” Comedy TV special. He is the co-creator of Comedy Central.com's critically acclaimed Internet series “The Watch List” featuring a cast of all Middle Eastern-American comedians performing stand up and sketch comedy. Dean has appeared twice on ABC's “The View,” on the nationally syndicated TV series “Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen” and was one of five comedians profiled in the recent one hour TV Special entitled: “Stand Up: Muslim-American Comics Come of Age” which aired in the US on PBS and internationally on BBC World and Al Jazeera.   Dean co-directed and co-produced the award winning documentary “The Muslims Are Coming!” featuring a tour of American-Muslim comedians performing free comedy shows across the heartland of America in the hopes of using comedy to foster understanding and dispel misconceptions about Muslims. The film also features special guest interviews with various well known people including: “The Daily Show's” Jon Stewart and Assif Mandvi, Russell Simmons, Soledad O'Brien and Ali Velshi, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, comedians Lewis Black, David Cross, Lizz Winstead and Colin Quinn as well as Congressman Keith Ellison, and many more. The film is now available on Netfilx, iTunes and Amazon.   Dean co-created the comedy show “Stand up for Peace” along with Jewish comic Scott Blakeman which they perform at colleges across the country in support of peace in the Middle East and as a way of fostering understanding between Arab, Muslim and Jewish-Americans.   He is writes for MSNBC, CNN and The Daily Beast as well as other publications.   Dean is also the co-creator and co-producer of the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival .He is also proud to serve as the Executive Director of The Amman Stand up Comedy Festival – the first stand up comedy festival ever held in the Middle East Dean is proud to have received the first annual “Bill Hicks Spirit Award” for “thought provoking comedy” (named after the late comedian Bill Hicks) from the NY Underground Comedy Festival and the Hicks' Family. See John on the Sexy Liberal show this Saturday https://sexyliberal.com/ He's been murdered on CSI, interviewed 2 Beatles on separate continents in the same week, and famously once got Mitt Romney's advisor to call Governor Romney an 'etch a sketch' on CNN. Actor, comedian & broadcaster John Fugelsang hosts 'Tell Me Everything" weekdays on SiriusXM Insight #121. He recently performed in 'The Bill of Rights Concert" alongside Lewis Black & Dick Gregory which aired on AXS.   He's also appeared at Montreal's ‘Just for Laughs' Festival, HBO's U.S Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, hosted America's Funniest Home Videos for ABC and Bill Maher called him ‘one of my favorite comedians'.   Film/TV credits include 'Price Check' opposite Parker Posey, "Becker," "Providence," "Coyote Ugly,"  the religious standup performance film "The Coexist Comedy Tour" (which won Best Documentary at the NYC Vision Fest film festival).  He appears in the upcoming features "The Girl On The Train," "Maggie Black," and he plays two roles in the romantic comedy ‘The Whole Truth' starring Elisabeth Rohm and Eric Roberts.   He's interviewed Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Brian Wilson, Yoko Ono, Willie Nelson, Tony Bennett, Alan Rickman, Joey Ramone, Carlos Santana, James Taylor, Bo Diddley, Stevie Nicks, Robbie Robertson, Ravi Shankar, Beyonce Knowles, Olivia Harrison, Garth Brooks, William Hurt, Helen Hunt, Ashanti, John Fogerty, William Shatner, Sen. Trent Lott, Sen. Tom Daschle, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ed Asner, Nile Rogers, Michael Moore, JK Simmons, Valerie Plame, Ethan Hawke, Brian Dennehy, Mavis Staples, Joel Grey, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Lily Tomlin,  Dave Matthews, Terrence McNally, Stanley Tucci, Michael Shannon, Noel Gallagher,  Jeff Daniels, Rita Moreno, & Carl Reiner.  His interview with George Harrison included JF persuading George to play several songs on acoustic guitar.  This proved to be George's final televised appearance and was broadcast as "The Last Performance."   His new film "Dream On," a road trip in search of the American Dream, was named "Best Documentary" at the NY Independent Film Festival.   Directed by 2 time Oscar nominee Roger Weisberg, the film examines the current state of the American Dream while retracing the journey Alexis de Tocqueville made while writing 'Democracy in America.'   The film features 200 interviews in 55 cities in 17 states, including Mike Huckabee, Barney Frank & Paul Krugman and premieres on PBS Election Day Eve. The Stand Up Community Chat is always active with other Stand Up Subscribers on the Discord Platform. Join us Thursday's at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout! The Stand Up Community Chat is always active with other Stand Up Subscribers on the Discord Platform.   Join us Thursday's at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout!  Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube  Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll  Follow and Support Pete Coe Buy Ava's Art  Hire DJ Monzyk to build your website or help you with Marketing

Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more Born in the Great State of New Jersey, Dean Obeidallah's comedy comes in large part from his unique background of being the son of a Palestinian father and a Sicilian mother. Dean, an award winning comedian who was at one time a practicing attorney, co-starred on Comedy Central's “The Axis of Evil” Comedy TV special. He is the co-creator of Comedy Central.com's critically acclaimed Internet series “The Watch List” featuring a cast of all Middle Eastern-American comedians performing stand up and sketch comedy. Dean has appeared twice on ABC's “The View,” on the nationally syndicated TV series “Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen” and was one of five comedians profiled in the recent one hour TV Special entitled: “Stand Up: Muslim-American Comics Come of Age” which aired in the US on PBS and internationally on BBC World and Al Jazeera. Dean co-directed and co-produced the award winning documentary “The Muslims Are Coming!” featuring a tour of American-Muslim comedians performing free comedy shows across the heartland of America in the hopes of using comedy to foster understanding and dispel misconceptions about Muslims. The film also features special guest interviews with various well known people including: “The Daily Show's” Jon Stewart and Assif Mandvi, Russell Simmons, Soledad O'Brien and Ali Velshi, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, comedians Lewis Black, David Cross, Lizz Winstead and Colin Quinn as well as Congressman Keith Ellison, and many more. The film is now available on Netfilx, iTunes and Amazon.   Dean co-created the comedy show “Stand up for Peace” along with Jewish comic Scott Blakeman which they perform at colleges across the country in support of peace in the Middle East and as a way of fostering understanding between Arab, Muslim and Jewish-Americans.   He is writes for MSNBC, CNN and The Daily Beast as well as other publications.   Dean is also the co-creator and co-producer of the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival .He is also proud to serve as the Executive Director of The Amman Stand up Comedy Festival – the first stand up comedy festival ever held in the Middle East Dean is proud to have received the first annual “Bill Hicks Spirit Award” for “thought provoking comedy” (named after the late comedian Bill Hicks) from the NY Underground Comedy Festival and the Hicks' Family.   Stand Up is a daily podcast that I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more See John on the Sexy Liberal show this Saturday https://sexyliberal.com/ He's been murdered on CSI, interviewed 2 Beatles on separate continents in the same week, and famously once got Mitt Romney's advisor to call Governor Romney an 'etch a sketch' on CNN. Actor, comedian & broadcaster John Fugelsang hosts 'Tell Me Everything" weekdays on SiriusXM Insight #121. He recently performed in 'The Bill of Rights Concert" alongside Lewis Black & Dick Gregory which aired on AXS.   He's also appeared at Montreal's ‘Just for Laughs' Festival, HBO's U.S Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, hosted America's Funniest Home Videos for ABC and Bill Maher called him ‘one of my favorite comedians'.   Film/TV credits include 'Price Check' opposite Parker Posey, "Becker," "Providence," "Coyote Ugly,"  the religious standup performance film "The Coexist Comedy Tour" (which won Best Documentary at the NYC Vision Fest film festival).  He appears in the upcoming features "The Girl On The Train," "Maggie Black," and he plays two roles in the romantic comedy ‘The Whole Truth' starring Elisabeth Rohm and Eric Roberts.   He's interviewed Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Brian Wilson, Yoko Ono, Willie Nelson, Tony Bennett, Alan Rickman, Joey Ramone, Carlos Santana, James Taylor, Bo Diddley, Stevie Nicks, Robbie Robertson, Ravi Shankar, Beyonce Knowles, Olivia Harrison, Garth Brooks, William Hurt, Helen Hunt, Ashanti, John Fogerty, William Shatner, Sen. Trent Lott, Sen. Tom Daschle, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ed Asner, Nile Rogers, Michael Moore, JK Simmons, Valerie Plame, Ethan Hawke, Brian Dennehy, Mavis Staples, Joel Grey, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Lily Tomlin,  Dave Matthews, Terrence McNally, Stanley Tucci, Michael Shannon, Noel Gallagher,  Jeff Daniels, Rita Moreno, & Carl Reiner.  His interview with George Harrison included JF persuading George to play several songs on acoustic guitar.  This proved to be George's final televised appearance and was broadcast as "The Last Performance."   His new film "Dream On," a road trip in search of the American Dream, was named "Best Documentary" at the NY Independent Film Festival.   Directed by 2 time Oscar nominee Roger Weisberg, the film examines the current state of the American Dream while retracing the journey Alexis de Tocqueville made while writing 'Democracy in America.'   The film features 200 interviews in 55 cities in 17 states, including Mike Huckabee, Barney Frank & Paul Krugman and premieres on PBS Election Day Eve. The Stand Up Community Chat is always active with other Stand Up Subscribers on the Discord Platform. Join us Thursday's at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout! The Stand Up Community Chat is always active with other Stand Up Subscribers on the Discord Platform.   Join us Thursday's at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout!  Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube  Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll  Follow and Support Pete Coe Buy Ava's Art  Hire DJ Monzyk to build your website or help you with Marketing

I was one of those people who believed Rachel Maddow. I sat glued to her show every night. I even patrolled Trump's entire Twitter feed to find the exact moment when he was “turned” by the Russians.I saw it all play out in my head. The hapless Trump in Moscow, the beauty pageant, the room with a hidden camera, the prostitutes, the embarrassing sex acts all designed as “kompromat,” a word middle-aged white women like me suddenly threw around like we were Valerie Plame.Rachel Maddow sounded so sincere, so intelligent, so concerned for the welfare of the country. She was an integral part of the Obama coalition in the early days. We couldn't separate them. They stood for the America we helped build and the one Trump threatened.I read every book on Putin I could find. I had long conversations with my friends about the danger of having a Russian asset in the White House. I believed Adam Schiff, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, and, yes, Rachel Maddow.Yet, no one stopped to think what all of that whipped-up hysteria, that fear, that rage would do to people who might think voting isn't enough to save the country. More would have to be done. What if it all landed in the lizard brain of a Gen-X Travis Bickle, who was prepared to lay down his life to save Ukraine?The media will attempt to paint alleged Trump assassin Ryan Routh as a madman. They might even say he was a Trump supporter or his ideology was unknown. But that isn't exactly true. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sashastone.substack.com/subscribe

Revisit this timely episode of True Spies, as we dive into the deadly conflict between espionage and politics with former CIA agent Valerie Plame. Valerie was outed in the press as an undercover agent when someone close to her challenged the government's line on Weapons Of Mass Destruction, placing her family and contacts in grave danger. From SPYSCAPE. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Music by Nick Ryan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's Debrief, catch up with the famously outed ex-CIA officer Valerie Plame. Hear from Valerie how her career has evolved since then, and the state of the Doomsday Clock, what might happen after the expiry of the New Start treaty, and what steps the world can take to ease nuclear tensions... From SPYSCAPE, the HQ of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Joe Foley. Produced by Morgan Childs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stand Up is a daily podcast that I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more See John on the Sexy Liberal show this Saturday https://sexyliberal.com/ He's been murdered on CSI, interviewed 2 Beatles on separate continents in the same week, and famously once got Mitt Romney's advisor to call Governor Romney an 'etch a sketch' on CNN. Actor, comedian & broadcaster John Fugelsang hosts 'Tell Me Everything" weekdays on SiriusXM Insight #121. He recently performed in 'The Bill of Rights Concert" alongside Lewis Black & Dick Gregory which aired on AXS.   He's also appeared at Montreal's ‘Just for Laughs' Festival, HBO's U.S Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, hosted America's Funniest Home Videos for ABC and Bill Maher called him ‘one of my favorite comedians'.   Film/TV credits include 'Price Check' opposite Parker Posey, "Becker," "Providence," "Coyote Ugly,"  the religious standup performance film "The Coexist Comedy Tour" (which won Best Documentary at the NYC Vision Fest film festival).  He appears in the upcoming features "The Girl On The Train," "Maggie Black," and he plays two roles in the romantic comedy ‘The Whole Truth' starring Elisabeth Rohm and Eric Roberts.   He's interviewed Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Brian Wilson, Yoko Ono, Willie Nelson, Tony Bennett, Alan Rickman, Joey Ramone, Carlos Santana, James Taylor, Bo Diddley, Stevie Nicks, Robbie Robertson, Ravi Shankar, Beyonce Knowles, Olivia Harrison, Garth Brooks, William Hurt, Helen Hunt, Ashanti, John Fogerty, William Shatner, Sen. Trent Lott, Sen. Tom Daschle, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ed Asner, Nile Rogers, Michael Moore, JK Simmons, Valerie Plame, Ethan Hawke, Brian Dennehy, Mavis Staples, Joel Grey, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Lily Tomlin,  Dave Matthews, Terrence McNally, Stanley Tucci, Michael Shannon, Noel Gallagher,  Jeff Daniels, Rita Moreno, & Carl Reiner.  His interview with George Harrison included JF persuading George to play several songs on acoustic guitar.  This proved to be George's final televised appearance and was broadcast as "The Last Performance."   His new film "Dream On," a road trip in search of the American Dream, was named "Best Documentary" at the NY Independent Film Festival.   Directed by 2 time Oscar nominee Roger Weisberg, the film examines the current state of the American Dream while retracing the journey Alexis de Tocqueville made while writing 'Democracy in America.'   The film features 200 interviews in 55 cities in 17 states, including Mike Huckabee, Barney Frank & Paul Krugman and premieres on PBS Election Day Eve. The Stand Up Community Chat is always active with other Stand Up Subscribers on the Discord Platform. Join us Thursday's at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout! The Stand Up Community Chat is always active with other Stand Up Subscribers on the Discord Platform.   Join us Thursday's at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout!  Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube  Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll  Follow and Support Pete Coe Buy Ava's Art  Hire DJ Monzyk to build your website or help you with Marketing

We return to the work of Naomi Watts this week for a discussion on 2010's Fair Game. Costarring with Sean Penn for the third time in a decade, Watts starred as outed CIA agent Valerie Plame with the film detailing the leaking of Plame's identity amidst her husband Joseph C. Wilson's criticisms of the Bush administration. … Continue reading "281 – Fair Game"

Today we chat with Mark Putnam, a national media strategist and ad maker for over three decades, and founder of the media firm Putnam Partners. His work bridges the political and non-political worlds, serving as one of President Obama's lead ad makers and the lead ad maker for President Biden's "Unite the Country" super PAC, as well as helping elect 11 governors, 10 U.S. senators and dozens of members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Mark has created some of the most talked-about political advertising campaigns of the last decade, including the "Background Checks" TV ad featuring U.S. Senate candidate Jason Kander assembling an AR-15 assault weapon while blindfolded that Politico called "the most memorable ad of 2016." Mark's viral video for congressional candidate and former CIA operative Valerie Plame was likened to a "spy thriller campaign ad" by Slate Magazine. Mark also produced advertising to help elect Doug Jones in the 2017 Alabama special election for U.S. Senate. Mark's advertising for breakout congressional candidate and Internet phenomenon Amy McGrath set the standard for viral political advertising in 2018 - earning millions of YouTube views and sparking dozens of national news stories. Mark's firm also helped elect 16 new members of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018 – more wins than any other Democratic media firm - and helped re-elect 12 incumbents in 2020, ranging from 10 U.S. Representatives, the Governor of North Carolina and the Mayor of Richmond, VA. Mark's highest profile project was creating Barack Obama's 2008 election eve 30-minute television special that aired simultaneously on seven networks and was viewed by over 35 million people. The Washington Post television critic Tom Shales called it "somehow both poetic and practical, spiritual and sensible... a montage of montages, a series of seamlessly blended segments." https://www.putnampartners.net/ https://www.vimeo.com/putnampartners  

From the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, the threat of Russia's nuclear weapons has loomed large. But would Putin dare to unleash his arsenal? Valerie Plame joins Marc Polymeropoulos to answer this question and to imagine a world without nuclear weapons. Tune in for all this and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, the threat of Russia's nuclear weapons has loomed large. But would Putin dare to unleash his arsenal? Valerie Plame joins Marc Polymeropoulos to answer this question and to imagine a world without nuclear weapons. Tune in for all this and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Until 2003, very few people knew her name, and that was exactly as she liked it. She was an undercover CIA operative working to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction - specifically, nuclear weapons. But then, when members of the Bush administration leaked her identity to a journalist, all hell broke loose. Hear about why she became an undercover agent, what exactly happened when her identity was exposed in 2003, and what life has been like since. She is hosting the conference, "Spies, Lies, and Nukes" in Santa Fe, New Mexico from November 10-12. GUEST:  Valerie Plame: Former undercover CIA operative specializing in nuclear weapons. Author of the memoir, "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House", and spy novels, "Blowback" and "Burned" Support the show: https://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On July 6, 2003, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's historic op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in The New York Times. A week later, Robert Novak revealed in his Washington Post column that Ambassador Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative.  It ended her covert career and set off a political scandal that rocked the Bush/Cheney White House. The public disclosure of that secret information spurred a federal investigation and led to the trial and conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, and the Wilsons' civil suit against top officials of the Bush administration.  Valerie had worked to protect America's national security and prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, in particular, nuclear weapons. All that ended, with the public disclosure.  Valerie has amazing resilience and skillsets. Today she is serves on a number of boards and is affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute, the trans-disciplinary scientific think tank created by two Nobel Prize winners to address the most compelling and complex problems in the world today. Valerie has lectured throughout the country and internationally on cyber security issues, national security, nuclear proliferation, women in intelligence, and the NSA revelations, and authored The New York Times best-selling memoir Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House, which was also released as a major motion picture of the same name starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts.  Along with Sarah Lovett, she's written two fictional spy thrillers Blowback and Burned. She also served as the narrator and appeared as an expert in the film Countdown to Zero, a documentary on the threat of nuclear war. Valerie also heads up the TED-like annual conference, Spies, Lies, and Nukes in Santa Fe. Valerie has lived her life in full in public, and private service and is an inspiration to each and every one of us.

Guest, Valerie Plame, former career covert CIA operations officer

Former CIA undercover operative Valerie Plame exposes the future of espionage and spy craft. The advent of artificial intelligence, especially deep fakes and a flood of disinformation, has made the task of  gathering reliable intelligence exponentially more difficult, with big implications for democracies. Listen to this episode to learn about the 17 US intelligence agencies, how 9/11 changed spy craft, the impact of disinformation on civic society and government, how undercover agents cultivate sources, and how artificial intelligence raises the stakes in the effort to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls See John on the Sexy Liberal show this Saturday https://sexyliberal.com/ 23 mins He's been murdered on CSI, interviewed 2 Beatles on separate continents in the same week, and famously once got Mitt Romney's advisor to call Governor Romney an 'etch a sketch' on CNN. Actor, comedian & broadcaster John Fugelsang hosts 'Tell Me Everything" weekdays on SiriusXM Insight #121. He recently performed in 'The Bill of Rights Concert" alongside Lewis Black & Dick Gregory which aired on AXS.   He's also appeared at Montreal's ‘Just for Laughs' Festival, HBO's U.S Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, hosted America's Funniest Home Videos for ABC and Bill Maher called him ‘one of my favorite comedians'.   Film/TV credits include 'Price Check' opposite Parker Posey, "Becker," "Providence," "Coyote Ugly,"  the religious standup performance film "The Coexist Comedy Tour" (which won Best Documentary at the NYC Vision Fest film festival).  He appears in the upcoming features "The Girl On The Train," "Maggie Black," and he plays two roles in the romantic comedy ‘The Whole Truth' starring Elisabeth Rohm and Eric Roberts.   He's interviewed Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Brian Wilson, Yoko Ono, Willie Nelson, Tony Bennett, Alan Rickman, Joey Ramone, Carlos Santana, James Taylor, Bo Diddley, Stevie Nicks, Robbie Robertson, Ravi Shankar, Beyonce Knowles, Olivia Harrison, Garth Brooks, William Hurt, Helen Hunt, Ashanti, John Fogerty, William Shatner, Sen. Trent Lott, Sen. Tom Daschle, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ed Asner, Nile Rogers, Michael Moore, JK Simmons, Valerie Plame, Ethan Hawke, Brian Dennehy, Mavis Staples, Joel Grey, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Lily Tomlin,  Dave Matthews, Terrence McNally, Stanley Tucci, Michael Shannon, Noel Gallagher,  Jeff Daniels, Rita Moreno, & Carl Reiner.  His interview with George Harrison included JF persuading George to play several songs on acoustic guitar.  This proved to be George's final televised appearance and was broadcast as "The Last Performance."   His new film "Dream On," a road trip in search of the American Dream, was named "Best Documentary" at the NY Independent Film Festival.   Directed by 2 time Oscar nominee Roger Weisberg, the film examines the current state of the American Dream while retracing the journey Alexis de Tocqueville made while writing 'Democracy in America.'   The film features 200 interviews in 55 cities in 17 states, including Mike Huckabee, Barney Frank & Paul Krugman and premieres on PBS Election Day Eve.   Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube  Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll  Follow and Support Pete Coe    

Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 740 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more 10 mins He's been murdered on CSI, interviewed 2 Beatles on separate continents in the same week, and famously once got Mitt Romney's advisor to call Governor Romney an 'etch a sketch' on CNN. Actor, comedian & broadcaster John Fugelsang hosts 'Tell Me Everything" weekdays on SiriusXM Insight #121. He recently performed in 'The Bill of Rights Concert" alongside Lewis Black & Dick Gregory which aired on AXS.   He's also appeared at Montreal's ‘Just for Laughs' Festival, HBO's U.S Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, hosted America's Funniest Home Videos for ABC and Bill Maher called him ‘one of my favorite comedians'.   Film/TV credits include 'Price Check' opposite Parker Posey, "Becker," "Providence," "Coyote Ugly,"  the religious standup performance film "The Coexist Comedy Tour" (which won Best Documentary at the NYC Vision Fest film festival).  He appears in the upcoming features "The Girl On The Train," "Maggie Black," and he plays two roles in the romantic comedy ‘The Whole Truth' starring Elisabeth Rohm and Eric Roberts.   He's interviewed Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Brian Wilson, Yoko Ono, Willie Nelson, Tony Bennett, Alan Rickman, Joey Ramone, Carlos Santana, James Taylor, Bo Diddley, Stevie Nicks, Robbie Robertson, Ravi Shankar, Beyonce Knowles, Olivia Harrison, Garth Brooks, William Hurt, Helen Hunt, Ashanti, John Fogerty, William Shatner, Sen. Trent Lott, Sen. Tom Daschle, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ed Asner, Nile Rogers, Michael Moore, JK Simmons, Valerie Plame, Ethan Hawke, Brian Dennehy, Mavis Staples, Joel Grey, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Lily Tomlin,  Dave Matthews, Terrence McNally, Stanley Tucci, Michael Shannon, Noel Gallagher,  Jeff Daniels, Rita Moreno, & Carl Reiner.  His interview with George Harrison included JF persuading George to play several songs on acoustic guitar.  This proved to be George's final televised appearance and was broadcast as "The Last Performance."   His new film "Dream On," a road trip in search of the American Dream, was named "Best Documentary" at the NY Independent Film Festival.   Directed by 2 time Oscar nominee Roger Weisberg, the film examines the current state of the American Dream while retracing the journey Alexis de Tocqueville made while writing 'Democracy in America.'   The film features 200 interviews in 55 cities in 17 states, including Mike Huckabee, Barney Frank & Paul Krugman and premieres on PBS Election Day Eve.   46 mins  Senator Zach Wahls is a sixth-generation Iowan, a longtime resident of the senate district with deep community roots, an Eagle Scout, and an active member of the Unitarian Universalist congregation in Coralville. Wahls is Vice President of Community Investment and Development at GreenState Credit Union, Iowa's largest financial cooperative. His testimony before the Iowa House Judiciary Committee about growing up with lesbian parents was YouTube's most-watched political video of 2011. He has spoken at over 300 events all over Iowa and across America, including a primetime speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention supporting President Barack Obama's re-election. He is the author of the nationally bestselling memoir My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength and What Makes a Family. Wahls co-founded and served as Executive Director of Scouts for Equality, which successfully led the national campaign to end LGBTQ discrimination in the Boy Scouts of America. Wahls received his bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and his master's degree from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs. Zach lives with his wife Dr. Chloe Angyal, who is a journalist and author, and their dog Zelda, in Coralville. Pete on YouTube Check out all things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page

This time 20 years ago Valerie Plame, a CIA operative, found herself at the center of a political firestorm when her covert identity was exposed. This uncovered a complex web of deception, high-stakes politics, and blurred the lines between national security and political ambitions. It also sparked a change in career for Valerie that saw book and movie deals, speaking arrangements and ultimately a big for congress! Plus we need to talk about Chingy. Howard Baily Jr. aka 'Chingy' released his single 'Right Thurr' this week cementing himself as a modern day Mother Goose. You'll find out why as we explore this theory in intimate detail. Also we've got Coldplay in Byron Bay, Netscape Navigator gets sold for billions heralding the rise of Mozilla, Lance Armstrong wins at the ESPYs and Deal or No Deal is unleashed on Australia! Those stories and more, this week on T Minus 20!Hang with us on socials to chat more noughties nostalgia - Facebook (@tminus20) or Instagram (tminus20podcast). You can also contact us there if you want to be a part of the show.

EPISODE 242: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:42) SPECIAL COMMENT: Not even five days since it went live, Zuckerberg's 'Threads' has exceeded the 100,000,000 users mark. And what is Musk doing? Calling him a "cuck" and personally servicing "Libs of TikTok." He's already made a fool of himself threatening to sue Zuckerberg and he HAS sued Twitter's old law firm for accepting the money Twitter owed it. So as Twitter is losing about two and a half billion dollars in value a month, what is his only other play? What it's ALWAYS been: ask the government for a bailout. It HAS to be! For once I'm rooting for the Republicans to take a state-level plan national. One Michigan county GOP leader says of another Michigan county GOP leader "“He kicked me in my balls as soon as I opened the door." And a dismissed budget chairman says new State GOP boss Kristina Karamo's spending is "so far out of proportion with income as to put us on the path to bankruptcy.” MAGA: Make America Groin Again. THIS is unlikely: Ron DeSantis says Trump colluded with Big Tech to bury the Hunter Biden "story" in 2020. Again - more of this please, Republicans. Even President Zelenskyy is scoring points off Trump, and while in an ideal world we'd admit Ukraine to NATO tomorrow, Biden makes two unanswerable points as to why we can't - not now. B-Block (19:04) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Oh, nothing, it's just Tucker Carlson losing 92.5% of his audience between Episode 1 and Episode 8. You can guess which paper asked that moronic cocaine question. And Trump's imbecility at a Dairy Queen invokes one of my Dad's greatest stories and greatest punchlines. (25:04) IN SPORTS: The same day the LOS ANGELES Times sports section essentially announces it's going out of business, the 28 surviving members of the NEW YORK Times sports section rebel and protest and mutiny against their dying outlet in the only way they can: With a letter to the editor. And MLB is trying to spruce up and speed up its player draft. But with it cut from 70 rounds to 20, what happens to all the people who won't be drafted and thus won't start their careers as the lifers who are the backbone of the game?  (34:11) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The podcast host talks about liquidating Joe Biden. The podcast guest - Jeanine Pirro - doesn't walk off the show. And given that assassination-adjacent conversation, why is Nikki Haley STILL predicting the president's death? Plus: Andrea Mitchell thinks magnetometers can detect cocaine. I think I detect the time for Andrea Mitchell to retire before she destroys her reputation and becomes Tom Brokaw. C-Block (41:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Last week was the 20th Anniversary of Ambassador Joe Wilson's famous New York Times Op-Ed that destroyed George Bush's lie that there was WMD in Iraq - and thus destroyed George Bush's legacy. So they decided to destroy Joe Wilson. And craziest of all: they thought I could help. Only one problem - they couldn't figure out how to spell my name so they could email me the weapons.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Serving as a covert operations officer for the CIA, Valerie Plame kept her occupation and identity a secret, even from her closest family and friends. All that changed in 2003 when a conservative columnist, at the direction of senior White House officials, leaked her true identity. It was payback for her then husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, questioning the administration's primary rationale for the Iraq war. It ended her covert career and set off a political scandal that rocked the Bush/Cheney White House. ​These days, this mother of college-aged twins is a best-selling author, public speaker, consultant, and advocate for the elimination of nuclear weapons. Find out more about her “Spies, Lies, and Nukes” conference this November at: https://www.spiesliesnukes.com/ Valerie's Website: https://www.valerieplame.com/ Full “Real Time with Bill Maher” Source: https://rb.gy/qm0mrThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5351305/advertisement

Hi! I am doing the stand up comedy in southeast PA on Friday Jan 13. Get tickets !  Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more   See John Fugelsang in Garrison NY on Jan 21    He's been murdered on CSI, interviewed 2 Beatles on separate continents in the same week, and famously once got Mitt Romney's advisor to call Governor Romney an 'etch a sketch' on CNN. Actor, comedian & broadcaster John Fugelsang hosts 'Tell Me Everything" weekdays on SiriusXM Insight #121. He recently performed in 'The Bill of Rights Concert" alongside Lewis Black & Dick Gregory which aired on AXS.   He's also appeared at Montreal's ‘Just for Laughs' Festival, HBO's U.S Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, hosted America's Funniest Home Videos for ABC and Bill Maher called him ‘one of my favorite comedians'.   Film/TV credits include 'Price Check' opposite Parker Posey, "Becker," "Providence," "Coyote Ugly,"  the religious standup performance film "The Coexist Comedy Tour" (which won Best Documentary at the NYC Vision Fest film festival).  He appears in the upcoming features "The Girl On The Train," "Maggie Black," and he plays two roles in the romantic comedy ‘The Whole Truth' starring Elisabeth Rohm and Eric Roberts.   He's interviewed Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Brian Wilson, Yoko Ono, Willie Nelson, Tony Bennett, Alan Rickman, Joey Ramone, Carlos Santana, James Taylor, Bo Diddley, Stevie Nicks, Robbie Robertson, Ravi Shankar, Beyonce Knowles, Olivia Harrison, Garth Brooks, William Hurt, Helen Hunt, Ashanti, John Fogerty, William Shatner, Sen. Trent Lott, Sen. Tom Daschle, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ed Asner, Nile Rogers, Michael Moore, JK Simmons, Valerie Plame, Ethan Hawke, Brian Dennehy, Mavis Staples, Joel Grey, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Lily Tomlin,  Dave Matthews, Terrence McNally, Stanley Tucci, Michael Shannon, Noel Gallagher,  Jeff Daniels, Rita Moreno, & Carl Reiner.  His interview with George Harrison included JF persuading George to play several songs on acoustic guitar.  This proved to be George's final televised appearance and was broadcast as "The Last Performance."   His new film "Dream On," a road trip in search of the American Dream, was named "Best Documentary" at the NY Independent Film Festival.   Directed by 2 time Oscar nominee Roger Weisberg, the film examines the current state of the American Dream while retracing the journey Alexis de Tocqueville made while writing 'Democracy in America.'   The film features 200 interviews in 55 cities in 17 states, including Mike Huckabee, Barney Frank & Paul Krugman and premieres on PBS Election Day Eve.   Check out all things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page

The Society Show with Christian Patterson is a podcast about society, featuring DJ Ski Doo and the Society Show Soundboard Band, with World Renowned Organist Roy Dickerson! It is now the new era of the Society Show - Season Seven, recorded live(-to-tape) at the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful North Seattle. This episode includes: - The CIA podcast Langley Files, and how horribly it does at describing the CIA - The CIA's presentation that they are apolitical and do not write policy - The Plame Affair and the the reveal of Valerie Plame, a secret CIA agent to the American public - How Valerie Plame is the side-effect damage of a pro-war smear campaign - The entanglement of journalists and politicians sharing information - The parallels between Russiagate and the Plame Affair - Elden Ring, Homefront: the Revolution, Pokemon Violet and Scarlet, Sekiro, and more video games All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show! Visit the website: societyshow.net Contact the show at societyshowpodcast@gmail.com Follow the show on twitter: @society_show

Arik Korman is on a journey to learn from superhumans - people who have done remarkable things or have remarkable ideas to share - so that he can be the best dad he can be for his son, AJ. The Arik Korman Show on iHeartRadio, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts features conversations with thought leaders from the arts, sciences, academia, and more. Previous guests have included newsmakers Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Robert Reich, Rahm Emanuel, Congressman Eric Swalwell, author Salman Rushdie, dance icon Misty Copeland, Tiger Mom Amy Chua, former CIA operative Valerie Plame, and pollster Nate Silver; actors Gary Oldman, Henry Winkler, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Carrie Fisher; Nobel Prize-winners Richard Thaler and Joseph Stiglitz; scientists Freeman Dyson, E.O. Wilson, and Brian Greene; and musicians Elle King, Itzhak Perlman, Esperanza Spalding, and Melissa Etheridge. Find and support Arik Korman online: Website: https://arikonline.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arikkorman Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArikKorman For more information on how you can Own Your Awkward with Andy Vargo, check out https://www.awkwardcareer.com/ #podcast #awkward #ownyourawkward #acceptance #authentiicity #motivation #inspiration #Tacoma #seattle #radio #football #wenatchee #podcast #host #guest #broadcast #career #interview #fail --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/own-your-awkward/support

Arik Korman is on a journey to learn from superhumans - people who have done remarkable things or have remarkable ideas to share - so that he can be the best dad he can be for his son, AJ. The Arik Korman Show on iHeartRadio, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts features conversations with thought leaders from the arts, sciences, academia, and more. Previous guests have included newsmakers Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Robert Reich, Rahm Emanuel, Congressman Eric Swalwell, author Salman Rushdie, dance icon Misty Copeland, Tiger Mom Amy Chua, former CIA operative Valerie Plame, and pollster Nate Silver; actors Gary Oldman, Henry Winkler, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Carrie Fisher; Nobel Prize-winners Richard Thaler and Joseph Stiglitz; scientists Freeman Dyson, E.O. Wilson, and Brian Greene; and musicians Elle King, Itzhak Perlman, Esperanza Spalding, and Melissa Etheridge. Find and support Arik Korman online: Website: https://arikonline.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arikkorman Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArikKorman For more information on how you can Own Your Awkward with Andy Vargo, check out https://www.awkwardcareer.com/ #podcast #awkward #ownyourawkward #acceptance #authentiicity #motivation #inspiration #Tacoma #seattle #radio #football #wenatchee #podcast #host #guest #broadcast #career #interview #fail --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/own-your-awkward/support

How I Gave Up Being A Corporate Spy | Robert Kerbeck (Author of RUSE and Former Corporate Spy)Robert Kerbeck's true crime memoir, RUSE: Lying the American Dream from Hollywood to Wall Street is a thrilling look into his career as a corporate spy. Frank Abagnale, author of Catch Me If You Can, said “Kerbeck has mastered the art of social engineering, or what he calls ‘rusing,' and taken it to a whole new level.” Former CIA spy Valerie Plame said, “Successful spies are great storytellers and Robert Kerbeck ranks up there with the best of them.” Robert's previous book, MALIBU BURNING: The Real Story Behind LA's Most Devastating Wildfire, won a 2021 SoCal Journalism Award, a 2020 IPPY Award, and the 2020 Best of LA Award. Robert's essays and short stories have been featured in numerous magazines and literary journals, including Narratively, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Magazine, Los Angeles Times, and Shondaland. One of his stories was adapted into the award-winning film, Reconnected, which has appeared at film festivals worldwide. A lifetime member of The Actors Studio, Robert has worked extensively in theatre, film, and television, appearing in lead roles in major shows and earning several awards. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Robert resides in Malibu. For the full show notes and transcription checkout: https://www.superpowers.school/ Watch episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/paddydhanda/ ★ BUY ME KO-FI ★ If you enjoy the podcast, then you can donate a small amount here as a token of your appreciation: https://ko-fi.com/paddydhanda Contact Paddy at: pardeep_dhanda (at) hotmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/superpowers-school/message

Robert Kerbeck's true crime memoir, RUSE: Lying the American Dream from Hollywood to Wall Street is a thrilling look into his career as a corporate spy. Frank Abagnale, author of Catch Me If You Can, said “Kerbeck has mastered the art of social engineering, or what he calls ‘rusing,' and taken it to a whole new level.” Former CIA spy Valerie Plame said, “Successful spies are great storytellers and Robert Kerbeck ranks up there with the best of them.” Robert's previous book, MALIBU BURNING: The Real Story Behind LA's Most Devastating Wildfire, won a 2021 SoCal Journalism Award, a 2020 IPPY Award, and the 2020 Best of LA Award. Robert's essays and short stories have been featured in numerous magazines and literary journals, including Narratively, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Magazine, Los Angeles Times, and Shondaland. One of his stories was adapted into the award-winning film, Reconnected, which has appeared at film festivals worldwide. A lifetime member of The Actors Studio, Robert has worked extensively in theatre, film, and television, appearing in lead roles in major shows and earning several awards. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Robert resides in Malibu. For the full show notes and transcription checkout: https://www.superpowers.school/ Watch episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/paddydhanda/ ★ BUY ME KO-FI ★ If you enjoy the podcast, then you can donate a small amount here as a token of your appreciation: https://ko-fi.com/paddydhanda Contact Paddy at: pardeep_dhanda (at) hotmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/superpowers-school/message

Robert Kerbeck, corporate spy, is the author of "Ruse: Lying the American Dream from Hollywood to Wall Street." In this episode of I Spy, Robert tells listeners about his former schoolmate, Valerie Plame, who is the only U.S. spy ever outed by her own government. To learn more about Robert, visit https://robertkerbeck.com/ • For more on cybersecurity, visit us at https://cybersecurityventures.com/

Have the documents collected from Mar-a-Lago, already been copied, and sold to a foreign government? Speculation? Perhaps. Reality? Perhaps. The big question is, “WHY did Trump have the documents at Mar-a-Lago”. That remains unexplained, as of today. Former covert CIA ops officer Valerie Plame joins the program to explain. What happens when a psychopath and narcissist like Donald Trump has a guilty conscience? How will the Trump Cult react to their leader being exposed for treason? We ask Psychoanalyst & Clinical Professor, Dr. Justin A. Frank, MD.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Stop the presses—we've got a scandal! We're trying to figure out what “Howell Raines-ing” Paris means for the Yale Daily News Staff, which means we're doing some investigative journalism about Raines and his role in the Jayson Blair scandal of the early ‘00s. We watch the documentary A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power and Jayson Blair at the New York Times, and then we ask questions like: How many lies can you tell before you get caught? Can you lose the company car and keep your job? And is the Yale newsroom the breeding ground for the next Howell Raines? We Wholeheartedly Recommend: Elvis (2022), Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)Other pop culture we ref: Valerie Plame, All the President's Men, Matt Lauer, Star Wars, Meghan Markle, Blake SheltonCheck us out on Instagram!Subscribe to our email list!So it's a show? TwitterSo it's a show? Tumblr

Who knew there was a legion of mice who help the CIA keep the world safe? Their headquarters? In the walls and basement of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. Our readers are from the Ambassador School of Global Education in Los Angeles and they have a few questions for writer Heather Vogel Frederick. Our celebrity reader knows something about espionage: former CIA operative Valerie Plame. Kitty Felde is host.

It's another secret mission, and this time Emily Gilmore is giving us our assignment. As she and Rory investigate DAR drama, we investigate the Valerie Plame Affair. Who was Valerie Plame? If she was undercover in the CIA, why do we know who she is? And should Rory use her as an inspiration for her snooping? Listen to our coded message to find out!Other pop culture we ref: The Bourne Identity, The Graduate, All the President's Men, Iran-Contra Affair, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Mean Girls, Harriet the Spy, Mata HariWe Wholeheartedly Recommend: American Made, The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the WindowCheck us out on Instagram!Subscribe to our new email list!So it's a show? TwitterSo it's a show? Tumblr

Ep.209 Dear Democrats Across The Trenches: A Prayer for Truth and Freedom in 2022 In this episode of The Scalpel, Dr. Rose reflects upon an event that happened in 1914 between British and German soldiers. In the days leading up to Christmas, British troops heard German soldiers singing "Silent Night." They joined in. What followed was a truly unique and unexpected moment in the middle of a war. In the political war of our current day, can we apply any lessons learned from 1914? Do we want freedom enough to stop attacking each other and seek truth and freedom? There are a number of sources of information that recount the Christmas Truce of 1914. https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-real-story-of-the-christmas-truce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce https://www.britannica.com/event/The-Christmas-Truce https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-story-of-the-wwi-christmas-truce-11972213/ https://time.com/3643889/christmas-truce-1914/ https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/christmas-truce-of-1914   There are even songs - like this one.   Paul McCartney - Pipes of Peace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwyFTRGiIUU Trump: ‘On Behalf of the Entire Trump Family We Wish Everyone a Joyous and Merry Christmas' https://grabien.com/story.php?id=266129   Summary Date Source Ugly, bloody scenes in San Jose as protesters attack Trump 06/03/2016 The Washington Post Police: Clinton Supporter Lights Flag on Fire, Attacks Trump Supporter 07/31/2016 CBS2 Pittsburgh Trump Supporter in NJ Attacked with Crowbar on Street, Police Say 08/09/2016 New Jersey 101.5 Tennessee Man Attacked at Garage Sale for Being Trump Supporter 08/18/2016 The Daily Caller Some protesters got aggressive at the end of the night as Trump supporters left Minneapolis fundraiser 08/19/2016 Minneapolis Star-Tribune Leftist MOB Beats, Kicks, Pummels TRUMP Supporter for Wearing #MAGA Hat 09/28/2016 The Gateway Pundit Republican headquarters in N. Carolina firebombed: ‘Nazi Republicans leave town or else' 10/17/2016 New York Daily News Vandals throw bricks through windows at Delaware County Republican Party office 10/18/2016 Fox 59 Indianapolis Twitter Erupts with Calls for Donald Trump To Be Assassinated 11/09/2016 The Daily Caller Student Trump supporter attacked at Woodside High School 11/10/2016 KTVU Fox2 Police: Florida student punches classmate carrying Trump sign 11/11/2016 Palm Beach Post Female anti-bullying ambassador, 23, arrested at Trump Tower protest for pushing man, 74, to the ground in fight over Trump 11/11/2016 Daily Mail 11-Year-Old Boy Badly Beat up for Voting Trump in Mock Election 11/11/2016 The Daily Caller 'You voted Trump' yelled at man while he's beaten in Chicago streets 11/12/2016 CBS News 2 Men Attack Trump Supporter in Meriden, Conn.: Police 11/13/2016 NBC Connecticut Student attacked for wearing 'Make America Great Again' hat at anti-Trump protest 11/16/2016 WUSA 9 Cornell College Republicans president assaulted, called ‘racist bitch' 12/15/2016 The College Fix Four anti-Trump activists in custody after mentally disabled man tied up, tortured on Facebook Live 01/05/2017 Fox32 Chicago Shocking moment Trump fan is attacked after putting out fire sparked by inauguration protesters 01/24/2017 The Sun Protesters block streets, attack Trump supporter's car in Eugene after peaceful rally 01/29/2017 The Oregonian Trump Supporter Knocked Unconscious After Being Hit by Airport Protesters 01/31/2017 The Washington Free Beacon Riot Forces Cancellation Of Yiannopoulos Talk At UC Berkeley 02/01/2017 KPIX 5, CBS San Francisco Anti-Trump Protesters Block Ambulance Rushing to Hospital 02/06/2017 Lifezette Rohrabacher Staffer, 71, Knocked Unconscious By Protesters Delivering Cards 02/15/2017 CBS Los Angeles ‘Bell Curve' author attacked by protesters at Middlebury College 03/05/2017 The Boson Globe Ann Coulter speech at UC Berkeley canceled, again, amid fears for safety 04/26/2017 The Washington Post Portland Rose Parade canceled after ‘antifascists' threaten GOP marchers 04/27/2017 The Washington Post Prosecutors file new charges against inauguration protesters who rioted, torched immigrant's limo 04/28/2017 The Washington Post Message to GOP Rep.: 'This is how we're going to kill your wife' 05/10/2017 Politico Police: Woman followed then threatened Congressman David Kustoff 05/11/2017 WREG CBS 3 Two tossed from rowdy town hall in Mandan 05/11/2017 The Bismarck Tribune FBI arrests Tucson man over threats to U.S. Rep. Martha McSally 05/15/2017 Arizona Daily Star Former professor suspected in Berkeley bike-lock attack enters plea in Oakland court 05/29/2017 East Bay Times Congressman Steve Scalise Gravely Wounded in Alexandria Baseball Field Ambush 06/04/2017 New York Times 'One down, 216 to go': New York representative receives threatening message after congressman shooting 06/14/2017 New York Daily News Several shots fired at truck flying ‘Make America Great Again' flag on I-465 06/15/2017 FOX 59 Indianapolis Anti-Donald Trump campaigner 'shoots Republican neighbour twice in the head' 08/16/2017 The Independent Missouri Senator: 'I Hope Trump Is Assassinated' 08/17/2017 The Daily Caller Threats Against EPA Employees Up 50% Under Trump Admin. 10/06/2017 NBC Washington Trump supporter attacked by 2 women at DC restaurant, police say 04/02/2018 FOXNew.com Trump supporter says she was attacked by two women at a DC restaurant over her political views 04/03/2018 DailyMail.com Here are some of the death threats made against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt 04/11/2018 CBS News Climate skeptic Marc Morano details his career of death threats 04/25/2018 ClimateDepot Stuart man charged with threatening Rep. Brian Mast's children over Trump policy 06/19/2018 TCPalm (USA Today) Increasing threats to Homeland Security include burned animal carcass left on staffer's porch 06/25/2018 WTOP.com Dem Party Volunteer Charged With Threatening to Kill GOP Rep's Kids 06/27/2018 Townhall California man arrested for threatening to kill FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's family over net neutrality 06/29/2018 The Verge Man allegedly threatens to chop up Rand Paul and his family with an ax 07/02/2018 Courier Journal ‘ABOLISH ICE': Nebraska vandals cause $1,200 in property damage at state GOP headquarters 07/03/2018 Conservative Review Random Stranger Takes Kid's MAGA Hat, Tosses Drink on Him 07/04/2018 Daily Caller ‘Irate' man arrested for threats against Trump supporters, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) 07/07/2018 New York Post Someone untied Betsy DeVos's yacht in Ohio. Damage ensued. 07/26/2018 The Washington Post Hit & Run Victim Says He Was Targeted Because Of Trump Bumper Sticker 08/01/2018 CBS 4 Boston Anarchy Breaks Out in Portland, With the Mayor's Blessing 08/03/2018 Wall Street Journal Cambridge man facing charges for cash offer to kill ICE agent 08/09/2018 boston Herald Trump Backer Claims Social Distortion Singer Punched Him Over Politics 08/15/2018 CBS13 Sacramento Student Who Took Classmate's MAGA Hat Says She Was Making Political Statement 08/27/2018 CBS 13 Sacramento Castro Valley Man Accused Of Switchblade Assault On GOP Congressional Candidate 09/11/2018 CBS San Francisco 'Threats of Rape and Strangling' Force D.C. McAllister Into Hiding After Anti-Abortion Tweet 09/11/2018 pjmedia.com Las Vegas professor shot himself in arm to protest Trump 09/11/2018 Las Vegas Review Journal Secret Service looking into ‘Where is John Wilkes Booth' comment by Broadway actress 09/12/2018 MSN.com Georgetown Professor Says White Republicans Should Be Castrated, Fed To Swine 10/01/2018 The Daily Caller A man sent letters with ricin to Pentagon, and suspicious letters to Pentagon, Ted Cruz 10/02/2018 NBC News Antifa Arsonists Vandalize Pro-Trump Truck — Then Torch It 10/09/2018 KPTV Antifa vandalizes New York GOP headquarters 10/14/2018 ABC7 NY Dem Operative Arrested in Nevada After Assaulting Female GOP Staffer 10/17/2018 The Washington Free Beacon Two GOP Candidates Assaulted in Minnesota 10/17/2018 The Washington Free Beacon Man arrested for threatening Kavanaugh-supporting senators 10/19/2018 NY Post Left-wing Wisc. man accused of attempting to buy radioactive material with intent to kill 10/24/2018 WTMJ Democrat arrested after threatening to assault black GOP campaign worker 10/25/2018 WBTV Trump-Hating Former Porn Star Engages In Shootout With Cops 10/25/2018 The Daily Wire Federal authorities offer reward for Wyoming suspect who set fire to local GOP headquarters 10/25/2018 Associated Press Four shots fired into Volusia County Republican Headquarters, police say 10/29/2018 WFTV Seattle City Council Candidate Drops Out Of Race, Citing Left-Wing Harassment Of His Wife 11/14/2018 The Daily Caller Trump supporter assaulted while wearing MAGA hat 11/16/2018 The Hill Vandals Throw Giant Boulder Through Rep. McCarthy's Office Window 11/22/2018 The Daily Caller A North Dakota Man Pleaded Guilty To Planning To Flip Trump's Limo With A Forklift 12/01/2018 BuzzFeed Antifa activist facing assault charges was tied to Democratic policymakers 02/11/2019 Fox News Man accused of pulling gun on victim wearing MAGA hat 02/17/2019 WBKO Man says he was attacked for wearing MAGA hat in Manhattan 08/01/2019 NY Post Antifa protester who attacked Trump supporter pleads guilty to assault 10/05/2019 NY Post Felony charge filed in punching of man leaving Trump rally in Minneapolis 10/24/2019 Star Tribune Florida Man Arrested After Allegedly Spitting on a Man and Slapping His MAGA Hat 10/29/2019 Newsweek Florida man in Trump costume punched in face by 14-year-old girl: cops 10/29/2019 NY Post Child hospitalized after beating on school bus for wearing Trump hat 11/21/2019 NY Post     Summary Date Source At the DoJ, Comey relentlessly pursued a banker for financial charges; when he couldn't find any criminality, he charged him with obstruction of justice "because of a single ambiguous email" (a conviction later overturned) 09/01/2000 The Federalist Despite knowing who leaked Valerie Plame's identity to a reporter, Comey tasked a special counsel to investigate the Bush Administration for years, eventually ensaring a non-leaker with a process charge 09/26/2003 The Federalist During the Valerie Plame leak investigation, Comey demanded AG Ashcroft recuse himself for conflict of interest; he instead chose the godfather of his daughter, Patrick Fitzgerald, to run the probe 09/26/2003 The Wall Street Journal As Bush's deputy AG, Comey schemed to become the AG himself when Ashcroft was hospitalized; he did so to stop an NSA counterterror program and set himself up for future political career 03/01/2004 The Federalist As deputy AG, Comey badly bungled the anthrax investigation, largely destroying the life of an innocent man (who later won a large settlement against the feds) 03/01/2004 RealClearPolitics After Comey assumed for himself the role of attorney general, he did not tell President Bush 03/02/2004 The Federalist Comey aggressively targeted Martha Stewart for insider trading; when he couldn't find wrongdoing, he charged her for “having misled people by denying having committed a crime with which she was not charged" 07/16/2004 CATO Institute As deputy AG, Comey used "bogus 'secret' information to entrap two lobbyists for the pro-Israel group" AIPAC; the case was later dropped, but not before two reputations were destroyed 08/27/2004 The Wall Street Journal During Comey's probe Valerie Plame probe, reporter Judith Miller was jailed for 85 days for refusing to divulge sources; she says crucial information was withheld from her 06/27/2005 The Wall Street Journal During a 2007 hearing into the firings of U.S. attorneys, Comey coordinated with Sen. Schumer and Preet Bharara to make a surprise appearance and attack Gonzales with a (disputed) account 05/24/2007 The Federalist After the NSA scandal exploded in 2013, Comey's FBI was exposed conducting its own data mining on innocent Americans; the agency retains that material for decades (even if no wrongdoing is found) 06/30/2013 Bloomberg The father of the radical Islamist who detonated a backpack bomb in New York City in 2016 alerted the FBI to his son's radicalization but the FBI let him go 08/28/2013 NJ.com Comey's FBI was warned about the Boston bomber but let him go 03/25/2014 NBC News In 2015, Comey's FBI conducted a controversial raid on a Texas political meeting, finger printing, photographing, and seizing phones from attendees 03/01/2015 World Net Daily Comey created diplomatic chaos with Poland after saying the country was an "accomplice" during the Holocaust. 04/21/2015 The Daily Mail Comey was forced to apologize after an error in the FBI's background check system allowed Dylann Roof to buy his gun 07/10/2015 The Atlantic During the FBI's Hillary probe, "A technician who destroyed evidence lied to FBI investigators even after he received immunity, and Comey did nothing" 04/01/2016 The Federalist; The Wall Street Journal Comey promised transparency into the investigation into the Pulse Night Club terrorist, but almost immediately redacted from transcript the killer's reference to Islam 06/12/2016 The Federalist Comey's FBI twice interviewed the Pulse Night Club terrorist but let him go 06/13/2016 The New York Times Under Comey, the FBI blew its highest profile corruption investigations (into Sen. Ted Stevens); a federal judge blamed the "worst prosecutorial misconduct" he'd ever seen 07/01/2016 The Federalist Under Comey, the FBI authorized informants to break the law 22,800 times in just four years 08/23/2016 The Daily Dot During its investigation into Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified material, the FBI made an unusual deal in which Clinton aides were both given immunity and allowed to destroy their laptops. 10/03/2016 Fox News Comey's FBI was embedded with the ISIS-affiliated terrorists who struck the 'Draw Mohammad' event but failed to act 03/26/2017 CBS News Comey claimed in Senate testimony he didn't feel compelled to memorialize his meetings with presidents besides Trump; however, that's untrue 06/10/2017 Powerline James Comey's Trump memos contained classified information, likely meaning he violated his own agencies security protocols 07/09/2017 The Hill Comey drafted an exoneration statement for Hillary Clinton months before the FBI even investigated her 10/16/2017 Newsweek Under Comey, the FBI's database for gun buyers lost millions of records 11/10/2017 The Washington Post Under Comey, the FBI's case against Cliven Bundy was destroyed after the feds were caught deliberately withholding evidence 12/21/2017 The Oregonian Sexual misconduct was rampant at the FBI under Comey's watch, with at least 14 agents sanctioned 02/25/2018 The Daily Caller Comey's FBI blew its case against Omar Mateen's wife due to agents' misconduct 04/03/2018 USA Today Agent Peter Strzok was considered so hostile to Trump, Robert Mueller dropped him from the Russia probe; Comey, however, found him fit to lead the Clinton probe 04/17/2018 RealClearPolitics On the FBI's Hillary probe, Comey claimed there was no coordination between the DoJ and FBI, but texts and emails later showed that to be untrue 04/19/2018 The Washington Examiner The memos Comey leaked contained classified material, prompting the DoJ inspector general to investigate his illegal leak 04/20/2018 The Wall Street Journal Comey's memos reveal that he briefed Trump on the Steele dossier specifically so it would leak to the media 04/20/2018 The Federalist During the Hillary probe, the FBI lost track of Hillary's server for months 05/05/2018 Jack Posobiec During his book tour, Comey claimed he didn't know the FBI thought Michael Flynn believed he was telling the truth     CONTACT THE SHOW Website: https://scalpeledge.com Email: KFR@scalpeledge.com Twitter: @TheScalpelEdge Instagram: @TheScalpelPodcast   #TheScalpel

Hayley Atwell details a deadly conflict between espionage and politics with former CIA agent Valerie Plame. Valerie was outed in the press as an undercover agent when someone close to her challenged the government's line on Weapons Of Mass Destruction, placing her family and contacts in grave danger. What would YOU do? From SPYSCAPE, the headquarters of all things spy. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Gemma Newby. Music by Nick Ryan.

The Swingin Sixties Spy Summer is over and the Spy-Fi Guys get back to reality with "Fair Game," starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. CIA operative Valerie Plame is burned and must decide whether to speak out in this post-9/11 thriller. Christian shares an awkward story of meeting the real life Valerie Plame and Zach shares spy fact vs fiction. You can find the Spy-Fi Guys at the following social media links: https://www.facebook.com/thesp

Ngày 11/09/2001, nước Mỹ rung chuyển vì loạt tấn công khủng bố thảm khốc nhất trong lịch sử đất nước. Gần 3.000 người chết và hơn 6.000 người bị thương. Hai mươi năm sau, dư chấn vẫn còn đó, và người ta vẫn tự hỏi : Làm thế nào một kiểu khủng bố như vậy lại có thể xảy ra tại Hoa Kỳ, một cường quốc quân sự hàng đầu thế giới ? 11/9/2001: « Cứ như một trận Trân Châu Cảng ! » Đó là một ngày thứ Ba định mệnh trong lịch sử nước Mỹ đương đại. Trong vòng chưa đầy hai tiếng, 19 tên khủng bố chiếm lấy 4 chiếc máy bay hàng không dân dụng Mỹ, tiến hành loạt tấn công tại ba điểm khác nhau : Tòa tháp đôi của World Trade Center ở New York, Lầu Năm Góc – trụ sở bộ Quốc Phòng Mỹ - và Shanksville tại Pennsylvania. Tấn thảm kịch này đã cướp đi 2.977 sinh mạng. Riêng tại tòa tháp đôi, con  số tử vong là 2.753 người, trong đó có 343 lính cứu hỏa và 60 cảnh sát, nhưng chỉ có 1.643 người là được nhận dạng.   Cả thế giới chấn động. Nước Mỹ bị tấn công. Cứ như một Trân Châu Cảng. Tổng thống Mỹ George W. Bush trên chiếc Air Force One rời Florida đến căn cứ quân sự Andrews ở ngoại ô Washington, khi quan sát Lầu Năm Góc từ trên cao, đã thốt lên : « Đây mới chính là diện mạo của cuộc chiến thế kỷ XXI ! ». Vì sao nước Mỹ - một cường quốc hàng đầu thế giới về quân sự cũng như là kinh tế lại không thể dự báo và ngăn chặn được cuộc tấn công thảm khốc đó ? Trong cuộc điều tra đặc biệt nhân kỷ niệm 20 năm tấn thảm kịch này, nhà báo Gregory Philipps của đài France Inter, qua các cuộc gặp gỡ với nhiều cựu nhân viên an ninh, tình báo Mỹ và một số chuyên gia Pháp, ghi nhận cả một hệ thống kẽ hở trong ngành an ninh, tình báo Mỹ vào thời điểm đó.   Al Qaida: Những chỉ dấu báo động đỏ Nhà báo nhắc lại, ba năm sau biến cố lịch sử này, năm 2004, ông Philip Zelikow, trong bản báo cáo của ủy ban điều tra Nghị Viện đã nêu rõ hai điểm yếu ngành an ninh Mỹ : Cuộc chiến chống khủng bố trước ngày 11/9 chỉ là một ưu tiên hạng ba đối với giới chức an ninh quốc gia và việc bảo vệ không phận Mỹ trong ngày bị tấn công chỉ được thiết lập một cách vội vã.  Điều khó hiểu là trước khi xảy ra vụ tấn công, đã có nhiều chỉ dấu báo động đỏ mối đe dọa khủng bố. Ngay từ giữa những năm 1990, Al Qaida, đặc biệt là Oussama Ben Laden, người thành lập tổ chức khủng bố này, đã nằm trong tầm ngắm của tình báo Mỹ. Nhiều vụ đánh bom tự sát được cho là do Al Qaida thực hiện nhắm vào người Mỹ và những cơ quan đại diện lợi ích Mỹ ở nhiều nơi trên thế giới, đã xảy ra trong suốt giai đoạn này. Cụ thể:  Vụ khủng bố ở tầng hầm parking của World Trade Center năm 1993 làm 6 người chết, hơn 100 người bị thương.  Tháng Giêng năm 1995, an ninh Philippines phá vỡ âm mưu chuyển hướng hàng chục máy bay dân dụng của Mỹ trên Thái Bình Dương của Al Qaida, còn được gọi là « chiến dịch Bojinka ».  Năm 1996, vụ tấn công khủng bố tại khu phức hợp dân cư Dahran ở Ả Rập Xê Út làm 20 người chết, trong đó hết 19 người là công dân Mỹ, 400 người bị thương.   Ngày 07/08/1998, cuộc tấn công khủng bố kép nhắm vào hai tòa đại sứ Mỹ, một ở Nairobi, Kenya và một ở Dar es Salaam, Tanzania đã làm 224 người thiệt mạng, trong đó có 12 công dân Mỹ.  Trong tầm ngắm Ali Soufan, cựu điều tra viên của FBI, một trong số những người đầu tiên gióng chuông báo động ngay từ năm 1996 về mối đe dọa Al Qaida nhớ lại : « FBI đã bắt đầu theo dõi Al Qaida khá sớm. Từ năm 1996, 1997, chúng tôi đã chú ý đến Ben Laden. Vào thời điểm đó, nhiều người trong cơ quan tình báo kể cả bên an ninh liên bang chỉ nghĩ rằng Ben Laden là một nhà tài trợ, chứ không nghĩ là nhân vật này có khả năng chuyển sang cả hành động.  Tháng 8/1996, ông ta tuyên bố thánh chiến chống nước Mỹ. Chúng tôi nghĩ là nghiêm trọng, nhưng nhiều người khác thì không. Tháng 2/1998, ông ta phát ra một lệnh fatwa kêu gọi hạ sát người Mỹ ở bất kỳ nơi nào trên thế giới. Chúng tôi thực sự tin rằng việc này là nghiêm trọng, đến mức ngầm kết án vắng mặt Ben Laden vào tháng 6/1998. » Về điểm này, ông Philip Zelikow, có giải thích thêm như sau : « Quả thật những kẻ thực hiện vụ khủng bố ngày 11/9 đã tuyên chiến với nước Mỹ bằng một bản fax gởi đến Luân Đôn vào đầu năm 1998. Bức fax này đến từ một nhóm bí ẩn, nằm ở một nơi kém phát triển nhất của thế giới, ở phía nam Afghanistan. Trong suốt năm 2001, chúng tôi đã suy nghĩ nhiều : Nhóm khủng bố này làm gì ở Afghanistan ? Nhưng ý tưởng nước Mỹ đến xâm chiếm Afghanistan để bắt lấy những kẻ đó trước năm 2001 là điều không thể nhắm đến ! » Những kẽ hở Sau vụ tấn công này, nhiều câu hỏi được đặt ra. 19 tên khủng bố đó là ai ? Vì sao chúng không bị theo dõi ? Tại sao thông tin đồng phạm Mohammed Atta, từ Hambourg (Đức) đến Mỹ vào đầu mùa hè năm 2000, để học lái máy bay tại nhiều trường khác nhau Florida, Arizona và Minnesota đã không được chuyển đến Washington ? Trả lời câu hỏi nhà báo Gregory Philipps, nhà nghiên cứu, chuyên gia về các mạng lưới thánh chiến, ông Dominique Thomas, thuộc trường EHSS, đưa ra các nhận định : « Trước hết, một trong những lỗ hổng lớn của hệ thống dân chủ là tình trạng quan liêu, đôi khi còn thiếu cả sự phối hợp giữa các ban ngành khác nhau. Quý vị có thể có đủ hết các mảng ghép nhưng chúng lại nằm rải rác ở nhiều bộ phận khác nhau, và không có sự liên thông hay kết nối tồi (…)  Hơn nữa, tôi nghĩ rằng vào thời điểm đó, cơ quan FBI có quá ít chuyên gia đủ khả năng phân tích các mối đe dọa. Nếu như chúng ta không có người thạo tiếng Ả Rập, những người nắm rõ khu vực này, hiểu được hệ tư tưởng, cách nói chuyện, tâm lý của những nhân vật đó, thì đương nhiên quý vị thất bại trong cuộc chiến này thôi ! »  Ali Soufan là một ví dụ điển hình. Là người đầu tiên xác định được danh tính của Khaled Cheikh Mohammed, kẻ chủ mưu của loạt tấn công thảm khốc, nhưng Ali Soufan là một trong số hiếm hoi các nhà điều tra của FBI nói thạo tiếng Ả Rập, vì có gốc người Liban. Tình trạng này cũng xảy ra tương tự ở CIA. Ông nhìn nhận sự hiểu biết về ngôn ngữ và văn hóa là điều cốt lõi trong cuộc chiến chống khủng bố.  Chống khủng bố: Ưu tiên hạng ba, thất bại to lớn Bên cạnh việc thiếu hiểu biết về thế giới Ả Rập, thiếu sự liên thông giữa các ban ngành, báo cáo của ông Philip Zelikow cho ủy ban điều tra nghị viện Mỹ còn nêu rõ trách nhiệm của ngành tình báo Mỹ trước ngày 11/9, chưa bao giờ xem xét nghiêm túc mối họa khủng bố. Cuộc chiến chống khủng bố chỉ là ưu tiên thứ yếu của an ninh Mỹ thời đó, theo như giải thích của ông Mathhew Levitt, chuyên gia về chống khủng bố, với nhà báo Gregory Philipps.  « Giờ nghĩ lại người ta chợt nhận thấy có điều gì không ổn, khó tin và cảm thấy đau đớn. Vào lúc đó có quá nhiều thông tin để xử lý, các nhân viên an ninh làm việc như điên. Nhưng bộ phận chống khủng bố ở FBI lúc ấy bị ví như là thùng nấu quần áo, đó không phải là nơi để họ thăng tiến. Hoạt động chính của FBI là tập trung nhiều vào các vụ án hình sự. Làm việc cho bộ phận chống khủng bố, gián điệp thật sự không mấy gì được xướng tên trên bảng vàng. Phần lớn thời gian họ chẳng bắt được ai. Ngày nay, khi nói đến khủng bố là người ta nghĩ đến cả một mẻ lưới. Nhưng đó là một hiện tượng hậu 11/9 ».  Nhìn từ khía cạnh này, bà Valerie Plame, một cựu sĩ quan CIA, đánh giá : « Đây thật sự là một thất bại to lớn của các cơ quan tình báo Mỹ. Đó chẳng qua là do thiếu chút suy nghĩ về việc làm thế nào vụ khủng bố này có thể xảy ra. Loạt khủng bố này không tốn kém nhiều chi phí (khoảng nửa triệu đô la), chẳng cần nhiều sự huấn luyện (hai năm chuẩn bị). Những tên khủng bố này lại thoát được tầm theo dõi của FBI, cơ quan lẽ ra có trách nhiệm phải giám sát những đối tượng này.  Rồi CIA cũng có cả những thông tin nhập cảnh vào Mỹ của những nghi phạm này nữa. Làm thế nào chúng có thể thoát được sự giám sát đó ? Người ta đã phớt lờ các dấu vết của FBI. Họ đã phí quá nhiều thời gian, sức lực và năng lượng để tìm kiếm một sự mưu phản. Nhưng làm gì có sự mưu phản nào. Đó chẳng qua là sự chểnh mảng, lơ là của Mỹ mà thôi ! »  Gregory Philipps lưu ý, trước năm 2001, mối đe dọa khủng bố này được cho là « xa vời » đến mức người ta có thể mang theo cả dao rọc giấy hay một con dao nhỏ kích cỡ chưa tới 10 cm trong hành lý mà không phải lo lắng gì. Thậm chí, người thân có thể đưa hành khách đến tận cửa lên máy bay. Trước ngày 11/9, FAA – Cục Hàng không Liên bang Mỹ công bố một danh sách đen cấm một số người đáp máy bay, nhưng danh sách này chỉ có 12 tên, trong đó Cheikh Mohammed, một trong số đầu não của loạt khủng bố này.  Ben Laden và 10 năm truy nã Đương nhiên, lãnh đạo CIA lúc bấy giờ là George Tenet đã được báo động, Richard Clark – cố vấn an ninh quốc gia của tổng thống Bush có gióng chuông báo động về mối họa khủng bố Al Qaida. Dù vậy, những tên khủng bố « nằm vùng » trên đất Mỹ lại không được cảm nhận như là mối đe dọa quan trọng. Vì sao như vậy ? Ông Andrew Card, chánh văn phòng Nhà Trắng thời kỳ đó giải thích :  « Tổng thống Bush đã làm những gì ông ấy nên làm. Tôi đã đọc lại tất cả những bản báo cáo tình báo mà ông ấy đã xem qua. Và tôi còn nhớ có một bản báo cáo gây tranh cãi được đệ trình lên hồi tháng 8/2001, báo động rằng Al Qaida đang chuẩn bị làm điều gì đó với Ben Laden. Rồi sau đó cũng có lời đáp : Đúng vậy, họ muốn tấn công nước Mỹ nhưng không ai có thể dự đoán chính xác ngày xảy ra vụ khủng bố.  Ai có thể có được câu trả lời đúng ? Liệu chúng tôi có thể nào cấm các máy bay cất cánh trong ngày 11/9 hay không ? Giờ thì chúng ta biết được là những tên khủng bố đó đã khởi động vụ tấn công này trước đó vài ngày. Như vậy là chúng tôi đã có những thông tin sai và do vậy chúng tôi đã chọn nhầm ngày để chặn các chuyến bay. Giả như chúng tôi có cấm các chuyến bay trong ngày đó, trong vòng một tuần hay một tháng, điều đó sẽ tàn phá kinh tế đất nước. Quốc Hội rất có thể sẽ chất vấn chúng tôi : Các ông đang làm điều gì vậy ? Các ông không thể đóng cửa kinh tế đất nước như thế. Giờ thì chúng tôi hiểu rằng lẽ ra chúng tôi đã phải làm điều gì đó ! »  Sau vụ khủng bố này, quyền hạn của các cơ quan tình báo đã được mở rộng. Hơn 262 cơ quan liên bang đã được lập ra hay được điều chỉnh lại. Hơn 850 ngàn nhân viên được tuyển dụng tại Mỹ trong lĩnh vực thu thập tình báo có nguy cơ biến hệ thống này còn trở nên quan liêu hơn và khó thể kiểm soát.   Một điều hiển nhiên là các cơ quan an ninh Mỹ đã không thể phá vỡ vụ khủng bố ngày 11/09/2001. Và họ cũng đã phải mất đến 10 năm sau mới tìm ra được kẻ chủ mưu thực sự của loạt khủng bố này : Oussama Ben Laden ! 

Tina and Hillary cover Operation Boptrot and former CIA operative Valerie Plame. For show notes and links to our sources, please click here (https://themuckpodcast.fireside.fm/articles/ep88notes).

Join us as we chat with Valerie Plame, formerly part of the Intelligence Community and now a rising political savant. We talk about the IC, the political arena, and how they intersect. And yes, domestic terrorism following the capital insurrection is sprinkled in there as well.

Here's our 2018 SongPromise! "You can't break me, I don't have a breaking point" is the line sampled from the 2010 Valerie Plame biopic Fair Game. NASA countdown taken from the Apollo 11 launching. Music by Dan SpencerLogo by Kelp Rabbit! 

In the new book Shattering Glass: A Nasty Woman Anthology, Kelli Stanley of Nasty Woman Press brought together essays from so many remarkable women, and she’s brought two of them here with her today. From 1993-2017, Barbara Boxer represented California in the United States Senate, where she was a hero for women’s rights. Valerie Plame served as an undercover agent in the CIA protecting our national interests until she was outed by senior members of the Bush Administration. All three of these remarkable women joined Alyssa Milano for a very spirited discussion. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alyssa-milano-sorry-not-sorry/message

Eight states and the District of Columbia held primaries on Tuesday night. Carrie Dann reports.

Welcome to Majority.FM's AM QUICKIE! Brought to you by justcoffee.coop TODAY'S HEADLINES: Which story indeed: there are curfews in place and war crimes underway across America. The world is watching in horror as Donald Trump, Bill Barr, the Pentagon brass and an army of cops turn the arsenal of an empire against its citizens. Meanwhile, there were elections in a number of states yesterday. But Trump’s dictator act – not to mention corona – made a free and fair vote all but impossible. And lastly, do not forget, that justice will be won for George Floyd, his family, African- Americans, and all of the oppressed people in this country. In Minnesota, where the uprisings in Floyd’s name began, elected officials are now talking seriously about disbanding a corrupt police department – and a lot more. THESE ARE THE STORIES YOU NEED TO KNOW: You may be hearing different things about what happened in the United States yesterday depending on where you live and who you are. Propaganda and disinformation abound -- and not just on social media. But here is what people in other countries are hearing about our situation. From The Guardian: Soldiers reportedly poised outside Washington as curfews set in. From the South China Morning Post, in Hong Kong: Protesters defy curfew in New York after Trump threatens crackdown. From Deutsche Welle: Germany urges press freedom at US protests. This is a serious problem – for you, us, everyone. Journalists, dissidents, and human rights advocates are at this moment being targeted by police, paramilitaries, and at least some of the armed forces. Hundreds have already been have arrested around the country. Hundreds more have been attacked without provocation. Government agents are committing war crimes on American soil -- and it is no secret, it is streamed and broadcast live around the world. At the same time top military commanders have announced they were unaware of developments unfolding around them. By all evidence the ruling Republican Party in cooperation with Donald Trump, organized crime, and a faction of the state security forces at the direction or influence of Attorney General Bill Barr. Mainstream press reports including by correspondents for national networks offered ample video evidence that the forces carrying out Trump’s crackdown have at times inflamed, exploited, and at times even stage-managed this crisis. A nationwide protest movement has in a matter of days led to a full-blown authoritarian crackdown by the executive branch. The integrity of the Congress and the judiciary is uncertain, as even federal court buildings have been seen filled with soldiers. Here is more of our latest information. As of yesterday, before curfew, there were at least 550 active protests in all fifty states. Arrests of demonstrators began on both coasts before the announced start of the curfew. Shown among the marches in Washington, DC, Massachussetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren told world press that Trump was QUOTE imposing violence on our people ENDQUOTE. The US Army’s Eighty-Second Airborne Division was deployed to Washington, DC from North Carolina – these were active- duty forces deployed against civilians, and armed with bayonets. Videos showed some soldiers mixing with crowds, and appearing ill at ease with their mission. Others, taking up riot formations, engaged in brutality. One resident reported his daughter picked up an unexploded police grenade that could have seriously injured her. Reporters spotted new secret police around DC who wear no insignia and who say only that they work for Barr’s Department of Justice. Barr granted the Drug Enforcement Agency extraordinary powers to surveil and arrest protesters, and Trump sought to federalize the DC police department. In New York City, Mayor Bill DeBlasio, whose daughter was arrested and threatened by police yesterday, praised the police even as they attacked thousands of his constituents on Manhattan Bridge and around the city. Police even boasted over public radio channels about shooting protesters. In Portland, Oregon, protesters intentionally took a bridge and laid down in a show of passive resistance. But activists reported pre-curfew visits by police and they, along with journalists and the homeless, were gassed indiscriminately. In Los Angeles, police backed by soldiers dragged groups of people out of cars for no apparent reason. In Denver, one officer bragged on social media that the police were starting a riot. In Flordia and some other states, local law enforcement urged homeowners to take up arms to defend against any criminals who threaten their property. Across the country, mayors and Congressional representatives offered little in the way of substantive resistance. Even Republicans refused to comment on their own leaders’ violent and treasonous power grab. The alleged driver of a semi truck that plowed into a protest in Minnesota on Sunday night was released yesterday by the county attorney without charges being filed. Curfews Undermine Election Integrity There were primary elections in eight states and the District of Columbia. Joe Biden reportedly swept in most states with between sixty-one and eighty-five percent of the vote. Bernie Sanders, who suspended his campaign but also hoped to keep collecting delegates, did best in Rhode Island, with nearly thirty percent of the vote. He did worst in Marland with only six percent. In New Mexico, former Central Intelligence Agency operative Valerie Plame lost her bid for Congress to a progressive, Teresa Leger Fernandez. In Iowa, white nationalist Republican Representative Steve King lost his primary to Randy Feenstra. The results were a mixed bag for progressive candidates in Maryland, Montana, South Dakota, and DC, all of which also had elections scheduled for yesterday. But it is hard to imagine anyone, including professional election monitors from this country and other countries, ever accepting the results as legitimate. And here’s the thing. You would expect some questions about the quality of yesterday’s vote, given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the miliitary and police curfews around the country, and widespread reports of voter intimidation and suppression by forces loyal to Trump. But that was only the beginning of the problems. The Washington Post reported that in several places, in-person voting was severly restricted as the number of polling locations were cut back. Complete results were not available. Some states said they won’t be ready until next week. Lines were long and voters reported feelings of intimidation and confusion around dates and deadlines. Minneapolis Politicians Consider Abolition As stark and frightening as the news has been, there are also many hopeful and heartening signs. In Minneapolis, where protests against the lynching of George Floyd by four city cops inspired the nationwide democratic uprisings, one ward representative spoke of dramatic changes that might have seemed impossible two weeks ago. The city’s Ward Three Representative, Steve Fletcher, said he was working with other members of the council to totally disband the MPD. From there the council could QUOTE start fresh with a community- oriented, non-violent public safety and outreach capacity ENDQUOTE. Fletcher also described how police had traditionally extorted councilmembers by allowing crime to increase in their districts as punishment for unfavorable votes, and by intimidating local business owners to lobby on the department’s behalf. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a civil rights lawsuit against the MPD. The state’s Human Rights Commissioner, Rebecca Lucero, joined the complaint. She told local TV their first goal was to negotiate a consent decree with the city. Then, courts could enforce it by issuing injunctions and unspecified financial penalties. In the meantime, the popular movement for justice for George Floyd continue to take positive action that is too often underreported. A group of protesters took over a former Sheraton Hotel in an area that reportedly saw theft, vandalism and arson. The building now houses two hundred people who were previously homeless, for free, and it’s managed by volunteers. We’ll see how that goes, but in the meantime, at least people are not in the street, or more likely in this new age of arbitrary curfews, in jail. AND NOW FOR SOME QUICKER QUICKIES: The World Health Organization funded a major new study that suggests the US Centers for Disease Control has been dangerously compromised by Trump’s personal interests. The journal Lancet published an analysis, funded by the WHO, of one-hundred and seventy-two different studies about the effectiveness of N95 respirator masks, versus ordinary surgical masks, to protect against the coronavirus. The New York Times says the new study confirms what scientists were already saying about the importance of medical personnel and other high-risk workers actually having N95 masks to wear. Police seem to have plenty available! When financial markets reopened this week, Goldman Sachs bet against the US dollar. Goldman, which looted the Treasury so thoroughly in 2008, has now established short positions on the value of the dollar. The details are complicated, but the upshot is that the more expensive and difficult things get for you as the economy suffers under Trumpism, the more Goldman wins. A rare cyclone headed for Mumbai last night had prompted tens of thousands to evacuate the city on India’s west coast. According to the BBC, it would be the first major cyclone to hit the city in over a century. The Indian Meterological Department was calling it a severe cyclonic storm. The poor will suffer worst and the government is no help. Two weeks ago another cyclone hit the east coast of India, and Bangladesh. Banking regulators in New York have been carrying out a secret investigation of Donald Trump’s lender of last resort, Deutsche Bank. But the investigation reported by The New York Times yesterday is not like other investigations into the bank’s ties to Trump. It involves Deutsche Bank’s relationship with the well-connected serial sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison last year. The state Department of Financial Services wants to know why the bank kept doing business with Epstein after employees raised concerns about his transactions with federal regulators. Unclear if they’ve tried asking Bill Barr, but he is pretty busy right now. June 3, 2020 - AM Quickie HOSTS - Sam Seder & Lucie Steiner WRITER - Corey Pein PRODUCER - Dorsey Shaw EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - Brendan Finn

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The Chilcot Report revealed that a key source of flawed intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war was a man known as Curveball. How did this obscure figure come to influence Britain's decision to go to war? David Aaronovitch and guests discuss the story of Curveball and what it tells us about why intelligence sometimes fails.Presenter: David AaronovitchGuests: Peter Taylor, BBC reporter and presenter of "Panorama: The Spies Who Fooled the World"; Stephen Grey, author of The New Spymasters; Valerie Plame, former CIA officer and author of "Fair Game"Producer: Joe Kent.

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Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson on seeing their story in the new Doug Liman movie, Fair Game. Plus, an audio diary of a veteran line producer, David Streit, looking to finance his first feature. A senior lecturer at AFI, after years of dreaming of shepherding his own movie from script to screen, this year at the American Film Market he bravely went for it and brought a microphone along to record his experiences.