Author Debriefing: United States of Jihad. An Interview with Peter Bergen

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🗓️ 3 March 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with author Peter Bergen to discuss his newest book, United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists. Paced like a detective story, the book tells the entwined stories of the key actors on the American front. Drawing on his extensive network of intelligence contacts, from the National Counterterrorism Center and the FBI to the NYPD, Bergen also offers an inside look at the controversial tactics of the agencies tracking potential terrorists—from infiltrating mosques to massive surveillance; at the bias experienced by innocent observant Muslims at the hands of law enforcement; at the critics and defenders of U.S. policies on terrorism; and at how social media has revolutionized terrorism. Get the book: http://www.spymuseumstore.org/united-states-of-jihad.html#.Vxk3s5MrJTY

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1:33.0	I'm Dr. Vince Houghton, the Museum's historian and curator.
1:37.0	Every week, the museum brings you interesting conversations
1:40.0	with authors, scholars, and practitioners who live in the world of global espionage.
1:46.7	Join us as we take a closer look at the secret world of intelligence.
1:50.9	So we're joined today by Peter Bergen, who is a print television and web
1:53.8	journalist documentary producer, think tank director, and the author of five books,
1:57.6	three of which were New York Times bestsellers and three of which were named
2:00.9	among the non-fiction books of the year by the Washington Post.
2:04.1	The books have been translated into 20 languages and have been turned into three documentaries.
2:07.8	Two of which were nominated for Emmys and one of which won an Emmy.
2:10.7	He is Vice President Director of the Fellows Program and the International Security Program at New America here in DC.
2:16.2	Professor of Practice at the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University, where he is the co-director of the Center on the Future of War.
2:23.1	He's also CNN's National Security analyst and a fellow at Fordham University's Center on National
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