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World News with BK

Podcast#191: US military translator spy, Coronavirus madness, Kenyan bangs chicken to death

World News with BK

BK

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2020

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Summary

Started this week with the arrest of a US military translator spying for Hezbollah, and then talked about the uptick in Afghanistan violence. Then it was on to coronavirus hysteria, Super Tuesday Biden blowout, the John Chapman Special Warfare complex, Tennessee tornado carnage, Tunisian suicide bombers, and a guy in Kenya banged a chicken to death. Music: Power Trip/"Hornet's Nest"

Transcript

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0:00.0

So, I'm going to Oh, Okay, 12.01 p.m PM here on Saturday coming at you guys from San Diego, California.

0:58.0

BK here, one more week in a row.

1:00.7

Please follow me on Twitter throughout the week for breaking news at

1:04.2

bravo actual and you can check on my Instagram at bk actual and I don't know if you're

1:08.7

know this guys but we're all gonna die of the coronavirus it's hysterical it's it's out there, it's over, it's the

1:13.9

apocalypse, we're all doomed. But so that's dominating the news, I'm just going to

1:18.6

tell you in advance. This was one of the weeks, it was amazing, This was one of the hardest weeks I've ever had trying to find other news because it is all

1:28.0

Coronovirus right now and we're gonna get into the coronavirus. I'm gonna get you the latest updates and all that good stuff. But I thought

1:34.6

I'd start here in the United States. It is rare that I begin in the United States. This is

1:39.4

World News with BK after all. But I wanted to get into this story,

1:44.2

which I kind of thought was a little bit underreported.

1:47.8

And this is this translator working for the US government, and she is being charged with providing highly

1:56.7

classified information to an Iranian-backed militia group and this is a woman for Minnesota right she's working as

2:06.2

a translator for the military like a contractor and prosecutors are saying

2:11.3

that she intensified her espionage as tensions

2:14.4

between the US and Iran increased in recent months. So prosecutors say that

2:20.0

this contractor named Miriam Taha Thompson, 61 years old, revealed to a

2:26.9

Lebanese man with ties to Hezbollah the names of foreign informants and details of the information they provided to the

2:36.0

United States. Now the identities of such informants are among the government's

2:40.9

most closely held secrets and law enforcement officials said

2:44.8

Thompson endangered the lives of the sources as well as those of military personnel.

2:51.6

Further, the officials suggested that the potential loss of classified information was grave,

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