The "You Too Can be the DNI" Edition
Rational Security
The Lawfare Institute
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Congressman John Ratcliffe faces questions from the Senate in his quest to become the next director of national intelligence. Americans are detained in an apparent botched invasion of Venezuela. And former national security adviser Michael Flynn claims he was set up by corrupt FBI agents.
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| 0:36.4 | So mystery solved. |
| 0:41.6 | Kim Jong-un alive. Not sure if he's alive and well, but he is alive. |
| 0:47.2 | You know, I'm not convinced. How do you know it's not a body double? How do you know he's not hold up in that train in a coffin while some actor goes |
| 0:58.8 | around to factories and cuts ribbons, Shane? |
| 1:01.6 | Is there another man that big in North Korea? |
| 1:04.4 | You know that they have body doubles for him, |
| 1:06.8 | but honestly, I think he was just like, |
| 1:10.4 | I'm gonna screw with everybody. I'm gonna screw with everybody I'm gonna disappear he was getting his toes done getting a facial |
| 1:18.1 | Having a little spa week who doesn't need a three week vacation in the midst of this global unrest and uncertainty? |
| 1:26.3 | They don't have a coronavirus in this area. A staycation, that's what it was. |
| 1:30.0 | All vacations in North Korea are staycations. |
| 1:34.0 | Come for the rest of your life. Hello and welcome to Rational Security. The U2 can be the DNI edition. |
| 1:49.0 | What if Kim Jong-un would like to be the DNI? |
| 1:52.0 | Oh, I bet he loved that junk. of Kim Jong-un would like to be the D&I. I want to be the D&I. |
| 1:56.0 | Maybe then Donald Trump would actually believe intelligence reports. |
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