The Big Picture in Homeland Security: 2020 and Beyond

Talking Feds

Harry Litman

Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Three of the country’s premier experts in national security -- Frank Figliuzzi, Malcolm Nance, and Juliette Kayyem—in frank, unmediated discussion about the new threats to the nation heading into the 2020 election. The Russian intervention in 2016 presents a sinister, existential hazard that calls for the same kind of paradigm shift in homeland security that the 2001 attacks required in intelligence. And the Administration’s hostility to career professionals makes the threats that more keen. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to a special indeed first of its kind episode of Talking Feds.
0:13.8	This is Harry Littman, I'm a former US Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and
0:19.8	a current Washington Post columnist.
0:23.1	We conceived this podcast in the first place as a more realistic and lively roundtable
0:29.5	among expert commentators whose contributions on TV so often are eliminated to 15 to 30
0:36.5	second sound bites.
0:38.2	Our sort of private image was to imagine we're all in our favorite booth at the back of
0:43.3	our favorite bar on Friday at 530 and the conversation is just flowing naturally, and
0:51.5	that inevitably would lead to this more sort of dynamic and loose and sometimes funny
0:58.0	conversation that we all knew was realistic and we had had as federal officials but that
1:04.3	are never replicated in the normal media coverage.
1:08.2	Well, today's episode takes that conceit and takes it a step further.
1:13.3	I'm the regular host for all these roundtables and I do what I can to structure an interesting
1:17.9	conversation and put my own two cents in as well.
1:21.9	But I wanted to try for the first time actually to take myself out of it and have the remaining
1:27.0	feds dive into a completely unmediated discussion as they really might do on their own.
1:34.8	And it made sense to do this for a subject matter for which I'd be somewhat out of my depth
1:39.4	and play less of a host role anyway.
1:43.4	So here today you have the perfect solution.
1:46.9	Today's episode focuses on national security and a discussion among three of the countries
1:54.6	most knowledgeable and experienced former officials all known well to podcast and TV audiences.
2:02.3	So we are extremely fortunate for this experimental talking feds to have first Frank Figley-Uzi
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