Introducing Sources & Methods
Sources & Methods
NPR
4.9 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
With decades of reporting from battlefields and the halls of power, they bring you inside the Pentagon, State Department, and intelligence community to help you understand America's shifting role in the world, and how events in faraway places matter here at home. Additional episodes feature interviews with power players from the NatSec world -- current and former military officials, intelligence experts, diplomatic leaders, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | They are the crown jewels of the intelligence community, as any president or intel leader |
| 0:10.3 | known. |
| 0:11.3 | Protect sources and methods. |
| 0:12.3 | Sources and methods. |
| 0:15.1 | Shorthand for how do we know what we know? |
| 0:18.0 | Who told us? |
| 0:20.4 | I'm Mary Louise Kelly. Those are among the questions we bring |
| 0:23.8 | here to sources and methods from NPR. Each Thursday you'll hear us discuss the biggest national |
| 0:31.5 | security stories of the week. We are journalists on the NADSEC beat for NPR, and we work with our |
| 0:36.9 | network of correspondence stationed around the world. |
| 0:40.3 | We cover the Pentagon, the State Department, the CIA, and other spy agencies. |
| 0:45.1 | Our goal is to help you understand what's happening in those centers of power and how events in faraway places affect us here at home. |
| 0:57.5 | Like a lot of the people you'll hear on the show, I have talked to spies, reported from |
| 1:01.8 | war zones, interviewed ambassadors, generals, presidents. I'm also pretty good at geography. |
| 1:08.1 | Need to find Ukraine on an unmarked map? I'm your girl. |
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| 1:38.4 | And thanks for checking out sources and methods from NPR. |
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