Episode 227 - Matthew Cole

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 219 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Cole is the author of Code Over Country: The Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team 6.

Matthew has covered national security since 2005 for U.S. television networks and print outlets. He has reported extensively on the CIA’s post-9/11 transformation, including identifying and locating a secret CIA prison in Lithuania used to interrogate Al Qaeda detainees. Since 2005, Cole has traveled extensively in Afghanistan and Pakistan to cover conflict and investigate U.S. intelligence operations.

For six years, Cole worked as an investigative producer for ABC and NBC News. At each network, Cole broke several stories of global significance. Among the subjects he has reported on are Blackwater’s covert work with the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command; the Raymond Davis affair in Pakistan; the death of Osama bin Laden; missing Libyan surface-to-air missiles after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi; classified CIA documents related to its drone program; and a SEAL Team 6 raid in Somalia.

For NBC News, Cole worked closely with Glenn Greenwald to report stories based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden and secured the only American television interview with Snowden.

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0:43.2	My guest today is someone that I received a ton of messages about.
0:49.9	His name is Matthew Cole.
0:51.0	He is a journalist and an author.
0:53.4	His most recent book is called Code Over Country.
0:57.2	The tragedy and corruption of SEAL Team 6.
1:01.2	I think a lot of people would think that I would not want to sit down and have a conversation
1:04.7	with this person or that we would not be capable of sitting down and having a conversation.
1:08.6	But the reality is, I think it was fantastic.
1:10.5	We talked for over or nearly, I was going to say over three and a half hours, but I'll
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