St. Ignatius of Journalism

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

4.0 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Journalist and Novelist David Ignatius and Yahoo News White House Correspondent Hunter Walker join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First, Walker joins Isikoff and Klaidman for a crosstalk on Coronavirus, how it has infiltrated the White House, and the translation of a Trump press conference. Then Ignatius, a prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post, discusses his new novel -The Paladin - a story of a high-tech CIA operation that goes wrong.

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.
0:03.1	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
0:05.4	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.
0:15.6	Now let's get on with the show.
0:21.0	A CIA officer gets tasked with infiltrating a group of hackers in Europe.
0:26.4	The operation goes south, and the officer is prosecuted for conducting illegal surveillance of journalists.
0:33.2	He goes to jail for a year, and when he gets out, he's determined to get revenge against the CIA officials
0:39.8	who hung him out to dry and the hackers who set him up.
0:43.8	That's the plot of a new novel, Paladin, by the veteran Washington Post column,
0:48.6	this David Ignatius, a journalist with unusually impeccable sources inside the US intelligence community.
0:55.6	We'll talk to Ignatius about his new book, as well as his reporting on the Michael Flynn case
1:00.1	and the origins of COVID-19 on this episode of SkullDuggery.
1:11.5	Because people have got to know whether or not they're presidents of croc, well, I'm not a croc.
1:15.4	I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage.
1:18.9	My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.
1:24.9	I did not have sexual relations for that woman.
1:28.9	There will be no lies.
1:31.7	We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else.
1:43.0	I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.
1:46.2	And I'm Dan Clyde, and Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
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