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Rational Security

The "Red Rover" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Four Americans are freed in a prisoner swap with Iran. Twitter is facing a lawsuit over jihadist messages posted on the site. And Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is cracking down on...everybody! 

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0:00.0

May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:08.0

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the brain again.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply Security, the Red Rover Edition. I'm Shane Harris of The Daily Beast.

0:35.0

Here with my friends Ben, hello Ben.

0:38.0

Hey!

0:39.0

Nice to see you.

0:40.0

Good to see you. Yeah.

0:41.0

And Tamara Koffman, Wittis, usually with us here, has escaped DC in advance of a potentially historic snowstorm.

0:49.0

We'll call this thing, potentially historic is the new phrase being

1:06.0

She's not in a snowy place. No, well she is I just got a text from her that she was going to what I think is the coolest named coffee shop in the world. It is in the Golan Heights overlooking the Syrian border with Israel and it is called

1:12.4

Coffee Annan. and it is called is called coffee anon.

1:15.0

And so this is a triple pun actually because anon in Hebrew

1:21.0

a non in Hebrew means cloud.

1:24.5

And so this is the coffee shop in the clouds,

1:27.5

but it's also where all the UN peacekeepers go for coffee. So it's named coffee anon after coffee anon, but also coffee in the clouds.

1:37.8

I feel like, okay, when I was in the Golan Heights about a year and a half ago, we went to this really

1:41.4

cool coffee shop that had really good chocolate, and I don't remember if that was it.

1:45.2

It probably was. There's not a ton of coffee shop. Does it kind of seem like a rest stop like it has a big parking lot and it's like nice and has chocolate inside?

1:54.0

Well it doesn't have a big parking but it is overlooking a valley as you and the

2:00.8

city the Syrian city of Kunatra

2:04.6

There can't be a lot of gourmet coffee shops in the golan it's a it's a good coffee shop and it's pretty isolated

2:09.9

It's it's on the border and anyway Tammy sends her greetings.

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