The What Happens in Aspen Edition

Rational Security

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Politics, Nationalsecurity, Government, Middleeast, News, Foreignpolicy

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🗓️ 29 July 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Is notorious Taliban leader Mullah Omar dead—again? And then, Tamara and her very important friends at the Aspen Security Forum were discussing the threat of ISIS and the real truth about encryption. Plus in Object Lessons, Shane is heading off to paradise, and Tamara brought back some primo swag.

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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 What Happens in Aspen Edition.
0:32.4	I'm Shane Harris of The Daily Beast.
0:34.0	I did not happen in Aspen.
0:36.0	I did not go to Aspen.
0:38.0	I was Happening in Aspen.
0:40.0	You were happening in Aspen to Mark Hoffman, whiz.
0:43.0	But it's lovely to be back with you, Shane, and humid sickly disgusting Washington.
0:48.3	You don't have to lie to me.
0:49.7	It's fine.
0:50.7	You can tell me the truth.
0:51.8	It was beautiful. The sun was shining.
0:54.0	You probably like went on like bike rides and like did they have those insane granola buffets set up?
0:59.5	I was there once last year and they had like this Bill Jerome Granola and Trail Mix
1:03.6	buffet. Wow, there was a Trail Mix buffet, I admit it, but sadly I did not do any biking,
1:10.1	hiking, tennis, golf, but I did wake up in the morning with the Aspen Music Festival playing
1:17.4	just hundreds of feet away from my window, just for me.
1:20.6	Your personal soundtrack in Aspen. Wow, so glad you're back. I'm also joined by my friend
1:27.2	Benjamin Wittis who also did not go to Aspen. You know excluded from Aspen but holding my head up high.
1:33.7	I was here, I was proud, and I even
1:40.1	un-surelishly posted all the videos of the Aspen Security Forum to lawfare,
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