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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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Comedy, Daily News, News

4.4 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Make sure your OPSEC is clean with this look back at The Daily Show's coverage of security leaks and classified document scandals.

Jon Stewart sneaks a peek at the biggest, best leak ever from Wikileaks, then checks his inbox and finds out that Hillary Clinton once had a private email server. Jon checks in with Aasif Mandvi to unpack another Wikileaks intelligence dump via Julian Assange. Trevor Noah listens in as Trump whispers in Russia's ear, then links up with the White House plumber (Michael Kosta) to discuss the toilets clogged with state secrets. Trevor reports on the FBI raid on Trump's residence hunting for classified documents, then turns to Desi Lydic to Foxsplain why it isn't an issue. Finally, Leslie Jones reports on Biden joining the club of classified document hoarders.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:07.0	Let's begin with explosive news.
0:10.0	Secrets are out about the war in Afghanistan.
0:13.0	Not just a leak, but a flood of secret documents.
0:16.0	92,000 documents.
0:18.0	It's the biggest leak in U.S. military history. Really? 92,000 documents. It's the biggest leak in U.S. military history.
0:21.8	Really? 92,000 pages.
0:24.7	I would hope that would be the biggest leak.
0:28.9	Seeing as that beats the Pentagon Papers by, I don't know,
0:31.9	85,000 pages.
0:35.0	Perhaps this might be an appropriate time to let leakers of military documents know
0:39.3	it's not a competition.
0:43.3	So, uh, some, uh, some top secret .
0:47.3	We just came from an off-camera session
0:49.3	with Colonel Dave Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman.
0:51.3	He says it looks to be secret in nature,
0:55.3	not top secret.
0:57.0	Oh, it's just secret.
0:59.4	I was worried.
1:01.5	I thought it was top secret.
1:04.4	That is a much lower security classification.
1:05.0	The top secret.
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