The "Acting" Edition

Rational Security

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News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

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🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Shane and Tamara and Susan are all away—so Rational Security is dominated this week by acting officials. The acting secretary of defense has been replaced by another acting defense secretary, and much of the rest of the government is vacant as well. Congress and the Trump administration are still butting heads over oversight matters and compliance with congressional information demands for information. And the New York Times reports that U.S. hackers are in the Russian power grid—and want the Russians to know that they're there.

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0:00.0	Do you hear that?
0:05.0	It might sound like nothing to you,
0:07.0	but it's actually the sound of nuclear, wind and solar energy.
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0:30.0	When Tammy and I and I and Susan were away you guys did the posing as us
0:39.5	addition and when Shane is away was away and we did the shameless edition, the utterly shameless edition and today it's the combination of the two, everybody else except including Shane is a way.
0:53.0	So we're gonna kind of, I think we have to like combine the two
0:55.6	and vamp off that.
0:57.0	The even more shameless edition.
0:58.4	Even more shameless, but also everybody's.
1:01.8	Also everyone else in it is.
1:03.0	We're continuing with a body double.
1:05.0	Continuing shamelessness.
1:07.0	It's kind of like the Trump administration, like nobody's there.
1:10.0	You know, we're all acting.
1:12.0	We're all acting. But we can say more than 210 days.
1:15.0	Hello and welcome to Rational Security, the acting addition. I'm Benjamin Wittis acting, I guess I'm the only
1:28.1	one who's not acting, I'm the real permanent Senate confirmed Benjamin Wittis joined here in the jungle studio by
1:35.6	acting Shane Harris Scott Anderson acting tomorrow Wittis Margaret Taylor, and acting Susan Hennessy, Quinta Jurisic.
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