Hi folks, Ken Wayne's team here. It's been an eventful two weeks on the National Security Front.

Congressional investigations into the firing of State Department Inspector General Steve

Linick are picking up steam and their picking up steam just as its successor, Steve

Acard, resigns less than three months into the job. Also, questions continue to surface

about DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, and its response to the protests up in the

Northwest. Also, we have an intelligence assessment about the threat of foreign election

interference that was issued by the intelligence community and that assessment has drawn concerns

from Democratic lawmakers and a number of other issues. And I'll be talking about all this

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Before we leave the intelligence issue generally, we've got another piece of more breaking news

in the intelligence world. And that's this most recent assessment articulated by Bill Levenina

of the National Counter Intelligence Center and about foreign election interference. And far from

kind of promoting a unified view and summoning a kind of unified purpose against foreign election

interference, it's really thrown a bit of a hand grenade into the into the environment here

and kicked up quite quite a low the dust. Yeah, it was interesting. Bill Levenina is the head of the

NCSC, which is the National Counter Intelligence and Security Center. And he issued a sort of a

threat assessment about election interference for the upcoming election. And he says that they're

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