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Rational Security

The 'SpyGate' Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

Politics, Nationalsecurity, Government, Middleeast, News, Foreignpolicy

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

President Trump orders the Justice Department to investigate the Russia investigation. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo details the administration’s strategy for dealing with Iran. And Trump appears to say that North Korea might not need to get rid of its nuclear weapons after all.

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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 President Trump has decided we have a new scandal at Spygate, which we're going to talk

0:27.4

about today on the show, but Spygate just sounds like the wrong name for this whole controversy

0:32.0

around a informant brushing up against people in the

0:36.0

Trump campaign so we have to think maybe we need our secret intel operation name

0:41.1

generator we need to come up with a better name like rampant

0:43.8

dinosaur arrogant giraffe what about mulgate mowel gate lookie loo gate how about spy gate

0:50.5

gate because this is all just meta anyway.

0:53.3

Brush up Gate, Coffee Boy Gate.

0:55.4

Quinta had a good one.

0:56.3

I like Quinta's suggestion.

0:58.2

What was it?

0:58.8

The X-Spy affair.

1:00.9

Ex-Spy affair.

1:02.1

That's a good one. I can guarantee you when all of a sudden done this spy

1:06.0

How about a fair do helper? It's not even going to be that sexy when it's all told

1:11.6

There is nothing sexy about this one.

1:14.0

Nothing sexy about Steph Hal. Have you met Steph Halper? Yeah, nothing sexy about him.

1:18.0

Oh, cruel, cruel.

1:19.0

He's 73. I mean, you're a nice man.

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