Shorts: The Intelligence Chiefs vs. the Committee with No Bull
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 30 January 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee heard testimony on global threats to U.S. national security from six heads of intelligence agencies: Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, CIA Director Gina Haspel, FBI Director Christopher Wray, NSA Director Paul Nakasone, NGIA Director Robert Cardillo, and DIA Director Robert Ashley. In a three-hour open session, they gave testimony about North Korea, they gave testimony about Iran, and they gave some testimony that clashed with statements made by the president of the United States. But we cut out all of the bull, and left you with just the 15 minutes of the hearing that you need.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of the LawFair |
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast, January 30th, 2019. |
| 0:39.2 | So we're starting a little experiment on the LawFair podcast and yes, that introduction |
| 0:43.8 | was an homage to the great radio lab introductions for those of you who don't know them look |
| 0:49.8 | it up. |
| 0:50.8 | In a few months, we've been thinking about a variety of content that we can provide in |
| 0:57.1 | audio format that is much shorter than a traditional LawFair podcast episode. |
| 1:02.8 | We're thinking about a variety of different things and this week, the Senate Intelligence |
| 1:07.5 | Committee gave us a remarkable opportunity to do this experiment. |
| 1:12.0 | They heard testimony on global threats to U.S. national security from six heads of the |
| 1:17.4 | intelligence agencies. |
| 1:19.6 | Dan Coates, the DNI, CIA director Gina Haspel, FBI director Chris Ray, NSA director Paul |
| 1:26.5 | Nakasone, NGIA director Robert Cardillo, and DIA director Robert Ashley. |
| 1:34.1 | It was a nearly three hour open session in which they gave testimony about North Korea, |
| 1:40.0 | Iran and ISIS that sometimes clashed with statements made by the president of the United |
| 1:45.3 | States. |
| 1:46.3 | When we did our usual reduction to just the questions and answers that LawFair listeners |
| 1:51.6 | need to hear, it was 15 minutes long. |
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