Spies and Assassins

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Former Trump NSC official and Executive Director of the International Spy Museum, Chris Costa, joins Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman from the museum on "Skullduggery." The group discusses the recent "assassination" of Soleimani, the past, present and future of conflict with Iran, and how social media is changing the way spies operate.

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.
0:03.0	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
0:05.3	And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.
0:09.9	And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,
0:14.1	tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.
0:20.0	The International Spy Museum is one of Washington's most popular tourist destinations,
0:25.4	a celebration of the world of espionage.
0:28.4	With exhibits, the pick thing, everything from undercover operations against the Nazis and Soviets
0:34.4	to the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Over the past year, it's moved into a new expanded location
0:40.4	with a new executive director perfectly suited for the job.
0:44.1	Chris Costa, a former Special Forces Operations Officer,
0:48.0	who was named to the Commando Hall of Fame, and later served as Chief of Counterterrorism
0:53.6	in Donald Trump's White House. We'll talk to Costa about the fallout from the U.S.
0:58.2	drone strike that killed Iranian general Kassam Soleimani and the changing world of espionage,
1:03.8	as well as the controversy over the Spy Museum's exhibit on CIA enhanced interrogation techniques
1:10.7	on this Special Spy Museum episode of SkullDuggery.
1:15.6	Because people have got to know whether or not they're President Sir Croft, well I'm not a Croft.
1:25.6	I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. My heart and my best intentions
1:30.8	still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. I did not have
1:37.3	sexual relations with that woman. There will be no lies. We will honor the American people.
1:45.0	With the truth and nothing else.
1:53.2	I'm Michael Isgop, Chief Investigator of Correspondent for Yahoo News.
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