The "Let's Ignore the Debate" Edition
Rational Security
The Lawfare Institute
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2015
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Is the Obama administration's hand-wringing over Chinese cyber spying making the U.S. look like chumps? Two new books chart the meteoric rise of ISIS. And a former U.S. ambassador highlights the importance of international partnerships to U.S. counterterrorism.
Plus, in Object Lessons, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson wants you to chill out!
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| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply Security, the Let's Ignore the Debate Edition. I'm Shane Harris of the Daily Beast and I'm doing everything in my power to ignore the Republican presidential |
| 0:38.4 | circus debate. What debate? What debate? Is there a debate? Is there is there debate happening there's something happening |
| 0:43.3 | but something's happening in California if I don't night show oh the tonight show is |
| 0:48.2 | on if I don't know and I don't hear it and I don't listen to it then it hasn't happened in the desert and |
| 0:54.3 | seeing me as it in Seamy Valley I don't know I'm really just trying to ignore it you |
| 0:59.3 | really don't know there's a debate tomorrow yes for the time you all hear this the debate will |
| 1:03.8 | have come and gone and I think we're probably predicting will not no one will have said |
| 1:07.3 | much of consequence at all to national security but we'll all be talking |
| 1:11.0 | about it anyway we all we will are we going to resist next |
| 1:14.0 | week i don't know but let's resist this week we're throwing down a gauntlet for as |
| 1:19.1 | long as we can exist |
| 1:20.6 | resist resist |
| 1:21.8 | when we start taking this seriously, you know you can too. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm joined as always by my friends Tamara Koffman-Wittis. |
| 1:29.0 | Hello, Tammal. |
| 1:30.0 | Hello, Shane. And my friend Ben Wittis. |
| 1:32.0 | Hello, Ben. Hey. |
| 1:33.7 | This week, good show. |
| 1:36.2 | First, is the Obama administration's hand-winging |
| 1:38.6 | over Chinese cyber spying, makingS. look like chumps. |
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