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Rational Security

The "Nikki, We Hardly Knew Ye" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

A prominent journalist and critic of the Saudi regime goes missing in Istanbul. Nikki Haley says she’s resigning as the U.N. ambassador. And tech companies push back against a story about a massive hardware hack.

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:15.0

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0:20.0

So we all managed to drag ourselves into the studio today. Ben, you're here without the one thing that we generally require for a panelist on the podcast.

0:31.0

My voice.

0:32.0

This is real dedication that Ben shows up sipping his mug of tea.

0:38.0

Yeah, it's a bad cough.

0:42.0

With his last breath, he will record rational security.

0:46.7

Are there going to be people in Twitter saying like for a long west,

0:49.8

what is this going?

0:51.2

Yeah, there's going to be people who are insisting that I'm doing it as a sympathy ploy to cover up most.

0:57.0

Right.

0:58.0

To make people forget my Brett Kavanaugh support.

1:03.4

Ben is so distressed over Brett Kavanaugh.

1:06.1

He can't speak.

1:07.7

I will vouch for the fact that he well and truly is coughing.

1:11.6

Yeah, it's not, it's not fake.

1:13.2

Poor pen.

1:14.8

Hello and welcome to Rational Security, the Nicky We Hardly New Y edition.

1:22.1

I'm Shane Harris, nominee for Ambassador to the United Nations.

1:25.6

Shane, I'm so proud of you. I would do such a good job, you guys.

1:28.8

I think you would be good. I would be great you an Ambassador. I would love those drapes I just say

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