Targeter: A Conversation with Nada Bakos on the Past, Present and Future of Intelligence

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Nada Bakos was a CIA targeter during the height of the War on Terror. She has just completed a compelling new book on her experiences on the ground in the Middle East, at the Agency and coping with the White House and other political leaders in Washington. It is not only a great read but it offers valuable insights that are relevant today re: Iran, terrorism, and how we view intelligence in the wake of Russia's attack on our democracy and the President's regular attacks on the intelligence community. Join host David Rothkopf, Ryan Goodman of NYU Law School and "Just Security" and Nada Bakos for an urgent, compelling discussion. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0	This is Deep State Radio. coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C. and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world. Hi this is David Rothkoff I am your host we are coming to you actually from New York City as we tend to on
0:54.7	Thursday afternoons live on YouTube as well as via our regular podcast channels and I am
1:02.3	joined here as on many Thursdays and I hope
1:06.6	on many Thursdays to come by Ryan Goodman of the NYU Law School which is just across
1:12.4	the street.
1:13.8	I trust you made it here safely and easily, Ryan.
1:17.0	In a New York commute.
1:19.1	Right.
1:19.5	And we're very delighted to have a guest with us who's been a deep state radio before.
1:25.0	Nade Baccos, who is a former CIA analyst and National Security expert who has a new book that is coming out in a couple of days
1:37.6	called The Targeter, my life in the CIA, hunting terrorists and challenging the White House, which I have just finished.
1:47.8	Usually when people send us books, I'll skim it and read a couple of reviews.
1:52.2	And I have to say I read this one from beginning to end.
1:55.0	It is a great book. It reads like a movie which is a good thing.
2:00.0	And it echoes a bunch of movies that people have probably seen.
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