Red, Red Lines
Sirens: A Bombshell production
Bombshell
4.8 • 691 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week on Bombshell we take a long look at Syria with special guest Melissa Dalton: what happened, what questions to ask, what hot takes to avoid, and where to go from here. And then we drink a lot. Also on the table: Devin Nunes and the Great Unmasking, reading tea-leaves in the National Security Council staff and membership, Jared Kushner's Wes Anderson adventure, how one dresses to go to war, and a few of our favorite spy novels.
Readings:
- Jane Perlez, After Xi Leaves, Chinese Media Assail Strike on Syria (NYT)
- Declan Walsh, Attacks Shows ISIS’ New Plan: Divide Egypt by Killing Christians (NYT)
- Ryan Lizza, on the House Russia investigation (New Yorker)
- Michael Crowley, Susan Rice Becomes the Target of Conservative Attacks(Politico)
- Susan Hennessey and April Doss, What Intelligence Officials Really Mean when the Talk About Unmasking(Lawfare)
- Susan Hennessey and Ben Wittes, It's Time for a Select Committee On Russia (Also, We Told You So) (Lawfare)
- Michael Hanna and Sam Heller, Journey into the Unknown (WOTR)
- Carl Prine, Why didn’t Trump drop bombs (San Diego Union-Trib)
- CSIS report, Deterring Iran After the Nuclear Deal
- Adam Weinstein, Jared Goes to Iraq (Task and Purpose)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Bombshell. I'm Rada Aingar. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm Lauren D. Young Sheldman. And I'm Aaron Simpson. What are we drinking this week, ladies? |
| 0:18.3 | We are drinking an apparel spritz which is a fancy italian |
| 0:22.7 | apparel uh with apparel soda water and prosceco however that i have to confess that |
| 0:31.1 | aaron is not drinking that Aaron brought a flask because apparently it's been that kind of |
| 0:36.3 | week you know it's only Monday but last week week was definitely kind of an intense week in the national security world. |
| 0:42.4 | And I feel like felt like a flask of Templeton Rye was just really what the situation called floor. |
| 0:47.0 | I just feel like the sun is out and I know that the world has gone to shit, but I'm going to drink my orange aperitivo as though I have into care |
| 0:54.4 | in the world, even though I do. |
| 0:56.1 | Here, here. Sounds right? That's, I have no, there |
| 0:58.0 | should be no, no objections. We are also in |
| 1:00.0 | roof deck season here in the Great Washington, D.C. |
| 1:02.5 | Oh yeah, we should work on that for a recording. |
| 1:04.2 | Yes, we should find, we've, we've |
| 1:06.0 | brainstormed some ideas about recording in other |
| 1:08.6 | locations, distilleries, breweries, and the greater roof decks |
| 1:14.7 | now of Washington. So we should, sponsors, if anybody wants to, you know, pay our bar tab while we |
| 1:19.9 | record in your famous establishment, they should get in touch. Definitely. For sure. Okay, |
| 1:25.2 | so we have saved a lot to talk about this week. I'm tired already. So there are so many |
| 1:30.7 | foreign relations to us to keep up with that we are not going to keep up with him all. We're going to do a |
| 1:35.2 | quick run through later. But first, we want to talk about something that is still a thing, as we say. |
| 1:40.8 | The Great Unmasking or the scandal of Congressman Nunes or the guy who snuck into the White |
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