• What’s Up for Trump’s FBI?
    Dec 20 2024

    Top former FBI counterspy executive and NYC Terrorism Task Force honcho Lauren Anderson addresses the looming uncertainty over “Day One,” January 20, with SpyTalk host Jeff Stein

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

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    47 mins
  • How the Syrian Rebels Beat Assad
    Dec 13 2024

    Anti-Assad activist Mouaz Moustafa in Damascus tells Michael Isikoff how he got advance word about the rebel offensive that would topple the Assad regime—including the hidden hand that foreign intelligence agencies may have played in laying the groundwork—and how the regime’s secret files may shed new light on the relationship that DNI-designate Tulsi Gabbard had with the Assad regime.

    Mouaz Moustafa
    https://twitter.com/SoccerMouaz

    Syrian Emergency Task Force
    https://setf.ngo/
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    38 mins
  • Why Kash Patel is the Most Dangerous Trump Nominee Yet
    Dec 6 2024

    Garret Graff, historian and journalist, explains why Trump's intention to install the fierce MAGA loyalist in charge of the U.S. government's premier law enforcement agency charged with thwarting terror attacks and protecting the nation's secrets endangers the bureau's mission for years to come.

    Garret Graff
    Garrett M. Graff
    https://twitter.com/vermontgmg

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    49 mins
  • Is Putin's Russia a Terrorist State?
    Nov 29 2024

    SpyTalk's Michael Isikoff talks to Chris Costa, former chief of counter-terrorism at the NSC and now executive director of the International Spy Museum, about the mounting threat of Russian hybrid warfare-- including acts of sabotage, arson, assassination and cyber intrusions-- and whether it is time to designate Putin's Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. Costa also weighs in on President-elect Trump's pick of Tulsi Gabbard to be DNI and Sebastian Gorka as the new counter-terror chief at the NSC.

    More from our guest, Chris Costa
    https://www.defenseone.com/voices/christopher-p-costa/14609/

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    41 mins
  • Clear and Present Dangers
    Nov 22 2024

    Tim Weiner, the Pulitzer-winning author of groundbreaking histories of the CIA, FBI and more, discusses Trump’s troubling nominees for top national security jobs with SpyTalk host Jeff Stein.

    Tim Weiner

    https://bsky.app/profile/tim-weiner.bsky.social

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    38 mins
  • Matt Gaetz and Trump's Deep State Revenge
    Nov 15 2024

    National Security lawyer Mark Zaid discusses Trump's stunning selection as Florida congressman Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General and what it might mean for his plans to target "corrupt actors" in U.S. intelligence and national security agencies who crossed him in the Russia probe.

    Mark Zaid
    https://twitter.com/MarkSZaidEsq

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    53 mins
  • WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE CIVIL WAR PREPPERS?
    Nov 8 2024

    New Yorker staff writer Charles Bethea joins Jeff Stein to discuss his startling reportage on thousands of Americans preparing for a civil war or other countrywide disasters.

    Charles Bethea
    https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/charles-bethea

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    28 mins
  • Jared Kushner's Saudi Gravy Train (with Rep. Jamie Raskin)
    Nov 1 2024

    Rep, Jamie Raskin tells SpyTalk why he wants DOJ to investigate whether Trump's son in law is serving as an unregistered agent of the Saudi government due to the $2 billion he's gotten from the Saudi wealth fund, as well as another newly discovered $87 million in "management fees." The feisty Maryland progressive also discusses his thoughts on the election and whether Trump is even eligible to serve as president under the 14th amendment.

    Jamie Raskin | Twitter

    October 24, 2024 The Honorable Merrick Garland Attorney General of the United States U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania

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    38 mins