FTA: What They’re Not Telling You About Signalgate

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Original Air Date: 3/26/25 Signalgate is an intelligence travesty. But the problems extend beyond the masterclass in how not to handle sensitive government secrets. Former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos joins David Rothkopf and Riley Fessler to break down this stunning mistake from our most senior government officials and why the cascading effects will be even worse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:37.9	Hello, and welcome to Deep State Radio. I am your host, David Rothkopf.
1:42.7	Today we're going to do a special kind of deep state radio with one of our friends and extended family members,
1:49.8	Mark Polymeropolis, who's had a very distinguished career in the CIA.
1:55.8	And since as a commentator, we will see frequently on MSNBC, always extremely well-dressed and dapper how are you doing
2:04.7	today more I'm doing great you know always the always the dull day in the news not much going on
2:12.1	so you know not much about today I don't know I'll try to find something we've also got our
2:17.4	friend Riley Fessler here who's producing, but he's also interested in this subject. And so we've invited him to join the conversation. You know, Riley is the co-host of the DSR Daily. How are you doing, Riley? I'm pretty good. Yeah, well, I just thought, you know, because we talked about this so much this morning,
2:37.7	it's good to have you in and on this.
2:42.1	Tell you what, Mark, why don't we talk about this Signalgate story?
2:45.6	I can't imagine you've got any strong views on the sharing of this information.
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