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Back to SearchHow Might Trump Deploy DHS Intelligence?
Episode 142
Former Senior DHS Intelligence Counsel Spencer Reynolds talks with host Jeff Stein about the troubled past and uncertain future of the agency’s Intel…
1 year, 8 months ago
A “Bonanza" of Spyware Abuses
Episode 141
Ronald Deibert of Citizen Lab tells host Michael Isikoff how his research firm has uncovered the shocking abuse of commercial spyware by foreign gove…
1 year, 9 months ago
Is Chinese Intelligence Really Subverting TikTok?
Episode 140
The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Jim Himes, tells host Michael Isikoff there is "zero evidence" TikTok is providing data o…
1 year, 9 months ago
Inside the White House Situation Room
Episode 139
Former senior CIA official and situation room Director Larry Pfeiffer goes inside the White House situation room with SpyTalk host Jeff Stein.
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1 year, 9 months ago
Upending Jan. 6 Reality
Episode 138
Former Jan. 6 committee chief counsel and federal prosecutor Timothy Heaphy talks with SpyTalk podcast co-host Michael Isikoff about the president-el…
1 year, 9 months ago
What’s Up for Trump’s FBI?
Episode 137
Top former FBI counterspy executive and NYC Terrorism Task Force honcho Lauren Anderson addresses the looming uncertainty over “Day One,” January 20,…
1 year, 10 months ago
How the Syrian Rebels Beat Assad
Episode 136
Anti-Assad activist Mouaz Moustafa in Damascus tells Michael Isikoff how he got advance word about the rebel offensive that would topple the Assad re…
1 year, 10 months ago
Why Kash Patel is the Most Dangerous Trump Nominee Yet
Episode 135
Garret Graff, historian and journalist, explains why Trump's intention to install the fierce MAGA loyalist in charge of the U.S. government's premier…
1 year, 10 months ago
Is Putin's Russia a Terrorist State?
Episode 134
SpyTalk's Michael Isikoff talks to Chris Costa, former chief of counter-terrorism at the NSC and now executive director of the International Spy Muse…
1 year, 11 months ago
Clear and Present Dangers
Episode 133
Tim Weiner, the Pulitzer-winning author of groundbreaking histories of the CIA, FBI and more, discusses Trump’s troubling nominees for top national s…
1 year, 11 months ago