Chatter: The Largest Sting Operation of All Time with Joseph Cox
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Joseph Cox is an award-winning investigative journalist and the co-founder of 404 Media. He is also the world’s leading reporter on the FBI's Anom sting operation, a topic he has written about in the new book, Dark Wire: The Incredbile True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever.
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