Welcome to Bombshell. This is our third episode. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Rada Aingar.

And I'm Lauren DeYoungshelman. And we're here for all your national security and drinking needs, which

reminds me, Rada, what are we drinking? Well, we're very fancy. I brought the fancy today. We are

drinking some champagne, at which point we will transition to smoked honey, whiskey, sour

cocktail mix with an assortment of bitters, including, but not limited to grapefruit bitters and lavender

bitters.

Well, so you are the walking block bar cart.

You are willing to absorb this cost for the rest of us today.

Totally way.

We also have brownies.

They are perfectly legal brownies in all states and the District of Columbia.

So please no one worry about our security clearances.

We will start, I think,

with our first segment, keeping up foreign relations. And what we want to do, we actually talked

about this last week, or last episode, but we didn't have time to include it, which is this

discussion of the Yemen raid, which we've known about for a couple of weeks now, special operations

activities. We're getting kind of piecemeal drip, drip, drip

information as more details are revealed. So, Roda, can you bring us up to speed and remind us what

happened with the Yemen raid? Then we'll kind of talk about some of the process pieces that have

come out since. Yeah. So just to remind everyone, Yemen is a place where an Al-Qaeda affiliate

called AQAP, which stands for Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, operates and so has been the subject of U.S. operations publicly disclosed for a number of years now.

The process by which those operations were handled changed after the then President Obama gave a speech

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