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no bull and the aftermath.

You know, if the issue is Russian meddling in the elections or it's what do we think about

domestic terrorism?

People go back to his open testimony and you can actually hear the words of the director

of the FBI saying this is what the FBI thinks about domestic terrorism or whatever the

issue is.

I think that's incredibly powerful and it stands as a kind of benchmark for people to

understand what the politics aside, what do the professionals actually think about some

of the most important issues we can for an nation.

I'm David Price and this is the LawFair podcast February 25th, 2020.

For a quarter of a century, the Senate select committee on intelligence, the House Permanent

Select Committee on Intelligence or both early every year have hosted the worldwide threat

briefing featuring open, unclassified testimony from leaders of the intelligence community about

the biggest threats facing the United States.

That is, at least until this year, when it is still unclear when the worldwide threat

testimony will take place if at all.

To shed some light on the history, the norms and the value of this open intelligence testimony,

we gathered an extraordinary group of intelligence leaders who have done it in some cases many

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