The Constant Cyberwar with David Ignatius of The Washington Post
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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David Ignatius is an award-winning (French Legion of Honor!) columnist for The Washington Post focusing on foreign affairs. Bill talks David about Trump, Michael Flynn, Russia and North Korea. He’s also the author of 11 spy novels. His latest, The Paladin, delves deep into the dangerous world of cybersecurity and technologically sophisticated misinformation campaigns. Including “deep fakes.” You can see it here on Amazon
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| 1:05.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. So what do you do with your spare time? |
| 1:14.5 | Well, if you're award-winning Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, you're not satisfied with writing two columns a week offering some of the best insights into American Farm Policy. |
| 1:26.7 | In his spare time, David Ignatius also writes |
| 1:29.8 | great spy novels. He's written 11 of them so far, including the latest, the Paladin, one of his |
| 1:36.8 | best, I believe, about the scary world of cybersecurity and a CIA agent who's stabbed in the back |
| 1:43.6 | by his own bosses at the CIA. |
| 1:47.0 | I recently had a chance to Zoom with David Ignatius as part of a program I host at the Hill Center on Capitol Hill. |
| 1:54.0 | We talked about Russia, North Korea, the Middle East, and other foreign policy hotspots, |
| 1:59.0 | and we talked about the very real challenges facing America in |
| 2:02.7 | cybersecurity today and how prepared we are or armed to deal with them. |
| 2:08.9 | David Ignatius, it's nice to see you. Thank you so much for joining us. I've been a big fan |
| 2:13.0 | of your column for many years, many, many MSR. Also a big fan of your books, David. I think those people, |
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