Welcome to Talking Feds.

Around table that brings together prominent former federal officials and special guests

for a dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of the day, I'm

Harry Littman.

We return this week to the booth in the back of the double agent bar and grill, where

the most knowledgeable counterterrorism and national security professionals get together

for candid, in-depth discussion about the state of threats to the homeland and the measures

the government is taking or should be taking to parry them.

Talking Feds veteran listeners know that we do this every few months and it never fails

to be illuminating if frightening and to cover vital ground that you rarely, if ever,

hear about elsewhere.

In the stakes of this week's discussion were brought home just this weekend with the

indefinite closure of the colonial pipeline after the largest cyber attack on oil infrastructure

in the country's history.

To discuss the most pressing challenges to the homeland today, we welcome a powerhouse

group of the most sophisticated experts, all of them authors of leading books with rich

experience in the intelligence and national security areas they are.

Frank Vigluesy, the former assistant director for Counterintelligence at the FBI, where he

served 25 years as a special agent and the author of the FBI way inside the Bureau's

Code of Excellence.

Bill Mudd, a CNN counterterrorism analyst who spent 25 years in the federal government

working on national security issues and counterterrorism at the CIA, FBI and White House.

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