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Rational Security

The "Near Abroad" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

Politics, Nationalsecurity, Government, Middleeast, News, Foreignpolicy

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Senate Intelligence Committee issues its long-awaited—and very long—report on Russian electoral interference in 2016 and the counterintelligence risks in the Trump campaign. The GAO determines that the leadership is serving illegally. And Belarussians have taken to the streets in protest against another stolen election by long-time strongman Alexander Lukashenko.

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Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.

0:11.0

So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app.

0:30.4

So guys, the DNC roll call was such a huge hit last night that I think we should open rational security with a roll call, where we all announce where we're joining from,

0:37.1

perhaps holding a dish native to our region.

0:41.8

Okay, Susan, you go first.

0:45.0

I mean, the honest answer is I'm joining from a sheet-lined closet clutching a

0:51.1

lukewarm diet Coke, but I want readers to imagine me on like the sunny beaches of California, you know, repping my my native land.

1:02.0

So this is Tamara Wittis from the Great Lake State, Pure Michigan and what is our food? Oh my goodness. Cherry's maybe?

1:15.0

This is Ben Wittis joining from the swampiest part of the swamp

1:21.0

where we sweat bullets in the summer and pretend that 40 degrees is cold in the winter,

1:29.6

the great non-state of the District of Columbia.

1:35.0

This is Steve Lottick coming to you from the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, Texas,

1:40.7

where it's a balmy, a hundred and one today.

1:42.8

That's actually the lowest high temperature we've had this week.

1:45.7

It's the first day of orientation.

1:47.4

I was supposed to actually be in Swanton, Vermont right now, but, you know,

1:50.8

the virus got in the way.

1:52.3

And although I don't have one with me,

1:54.0

I think the representative food is a breakfast taco.

1:56.0

That is, that's a good, we have cherries and breakfast tacos.

2:00.0

And I mean, one of the things that you learn

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