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Donald Trump has promoted a foreign policy that seeks to reverse or undermine many of the lasting tenets of post WWII U.S. foreign policy. He wants to retreat into a gated community nationalism that eschews international institutions, alliances, engagement, diplomacy and even the basics of sound coordinated foreign and national security policy at home. The risks are …
The post Will Trump’s Efforts to End “Forever Wars” End Up Undermining Lasting Peace? appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
As every day brings new testimony from former members of the Trump Administration that confirms there was widespread acknowledgment that what the President and his agents were doing in Ukraine was wrong, new questions emerge. How much more testimony will be required before an impeachment vote will take place? What will be the scope of …
The post A Turning Point in the Impeachment Investigation: Is the End for Trump Nearing? appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
Few Americans in our history have had such wide-ranging and distinguished careers as Leon Panetta. A former Secretary of Defense, Director of Central Intelligence and White House Chief of Staff as well as a long-time Congressman from California, Panetta is one of the most respected, thoughtful and experienced observers of U.S. national security and foreign …
The post The Biggest National Security Threat We Face is President Trump: A Conversation with Secretary Leon Panetta appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
Today, David Rothkopf had the pleasure of speaking with General Michael Hayden. Here is the transcript of that conversation, available exclusively to our members.
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Today the House Judiciary Committee announced the new guidelines for its impeachment investigation. We are joined on this special edition of National Security Magazine by Representative Ted Lieu of California, a member of both the Judiciary and the Foreign Affairs Committees, who discusses where the investigation will go from here and shares his own view …
The post The Impeachment Investigation Kicks Into Gear: A Newsmaker Conversation with Rep. Ted Lieu appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
In a far reaching and incisive conversation with Michael Morell, former Acting Director of Central Intelligence and Deputy Director of the CIA from 2010-2013, we discuss a world situation that in his view presents more challenges than any we have faced since World War II. However great the threats confronting us may be, they are …
The post We Are Not Prepared for Today’s Global Threats…or Tomorrow’s appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
The day after Donald Trump leaves office in January 2021 (as we’ll assume for the sake of argument and/or sanity that he does), what happens to America’s relations with the world? What snaps back to the way it was in the past? What does not? Where has irreparable damage been done? Where are quick fixes …
The post Attention Planet Earth: Listen to this Pod and Learn What the Next US Presidency Will Be Like appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
General James Clapper was both the Director of National Intelligence and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, one of the most distinguished intelligence leaders of the past several decades. We discuss with him where the Russia investigation is post-Mueller, the challenges for the intelligence community in the face of leadership upheaval and the risks …
The post A Conversation with General James Clapper: Priorities for an Intel Community in Flux appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
On this edition of National Security Magazine we have an in-depth discussion with former Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin about the president’s proposed leadership change at the top of the US intelligence community and the risks that may be associated with it. McLaughlin, one of the most respected career intelligence officers of the past several …
The post Are We on a Slippery Slope Toward Authoritarianism…and Can the “Deep State” Save Us? appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
Ambassador Bill Burns is one of the most distinguished US diplomats of the past 50 years. In a wide ranging conversation based upon his great memoir “The Back Channel” he discusses the evolution (or devolution) of US foreign policy from Reagan to Trump and some of the biggest issues we face today. It is essential …
The post The Back Channel: A Conversation with America’s Most Distinguished Diplomat About the Past & Future of U.S. Foreign Policy appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut has since entering the U.S. Senate in 2013 emerged as one of its leading voices on foreign policy and, especially on the issue of the War in Yemen, has become a voice of conscience that has led one of the rare instances of a bi-partisan pushback against Trump Administration policy. …
The post Sen. Chris Murphy: From the Middle East to the Southern Border What We Need Most is New Leadership appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
Few journalists have so distinguished themselves in their coverage of the Trump-Russia investigations as has Natasha Bertrand, staff writer for the Atlantic and analyst for NBC News. We discuss the recent developments in the case from the Barr letter purporting to summarize the Mueller Report to the storm of controversy it has generated. We explore …
The post Natasha Bertrand: This Is Only the End of the Beginning of the Trump-Russia Saga appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
America and India are entering a rough patch in the relationship between the world’s two biggest democracies. Trade issues are at the center of the current trouble but the problems go deeper. And of course, we have seen disturbing tension between India and Pakistan recently. Is this relationship getting the attention from the Trump Administration it deserves? Is the... …
The post Amb. Tim Roemer: Is Our Most Neglected Big Power Relationship with India? And What’s Ahead for Democrats in 2020? appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
Five years ago, the Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine began. That was followed by the annexation of Crimea, US and European sanctions and, soon after, by stepped Russian efforts to undermine the leaders and parties in the West that were opposing him. Which of course, leads not just to Donald Trump but to Brexit and …
The post Amb. Michael McFaul: The View from a Point In US-Russia Relations No One Could Have Envisioned appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
Once upon a time Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer wrote a blockbuster book called “The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy.” Deep State Radio Host David Rothkopf slammed it. But if you are tuning in to hear the two of them go at each other, you’ll be disappointed. Rothkopf admits to Walt he felt his …
The post Stephen Walt on Why Less is More in the Middle East and Where Donald Trump Has (Accidentally) Gotten It Right appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
In his 37 year career in the U.S. Army, General Charles Jacoby rose to become the commanding general of U.S. Northcom and the North American Aerospace Defense Command and a leading thinker of some of the most pressing issues the U.S. military faces. Today, he chairs the Modern War Institute at West Point, a think …
The post Are We Ready for the Future of War?: A Conversation with General (Ret.) Charles Jacoby appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
In an in-depth conversation with former National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden Colin Kahl, now of Stanford University, we discuss the unsettling reality of Trump Administration foreign policy for American interests and for those of our allies worldwide. From the intelligence community’s not so subtle indictment of Trump policies in their most recent …
The post Just Because Trumpworld is Batshit Crazy Doesn’t Mean You Should Lose Sight of the Big Picture appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
Adam Schiff, Chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, is a soft-spoken, thoughtful man who does not at first glance seem to be the kind of person who might put a fright into the most powerful man in the world. But Schiff’s announcement of his committee’s scope for its investigation into Trump, his family …
The post Why Is Adam Schiff Making the President So Nervous? appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
Congressman Ted Lieu of California, is one of the smartest, hardest working members of the U.S. Congress. A member of the Democratic Leadership, Lieu, brings an undergraduate degree in computer science from Stanford, a magna cum laude law degree from Georgetown where he edited the law review, a background as an Air Force J.A.G. officer, an …
The post Rep. Ted Lieu: We are at the Beginning of a New Era in Congressional Foreign Affairs Oversight appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
For more than 30 years, John McLaughlin has been one of the most thoughtful and trusted minds in the U.S. Intelligence Community rising to be Acting Director of Central Intelligence and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. He sees no precedent for the period we are in, the threats we face both internally and externally nor …
The post John McLaughlin: “Truth Power” and the Shifting Role of the Intelligence Community in the Age of Trump appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
General Mark Hertling served for 37 years in the U.S. military, rising to become Commanding General of the U.S. Army Europe. Since his retirement, he has become well-known as a commentator on television and on social media. He discusses what went wrong between Trump and “his generals”, the current level of dysfunction within the U.S. …
The post Gen. Mark Hertling: The Nation May Need a Trump Every Once in a While…But for How Long? appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
The latest edition of Deep State Radio's National Security Magazine offers up an in-depth interview with one of the most distinguished leaders the U.S. intelligence community has produced, General James Clapper. Culminating his 54 year career in the military and intelligence communities with a six and a half year term as Director of National Intelligence, Clapper considers the current state of the relations between the intelligence community and the president as well as profound consequences of Russia's massive on-going efforts to interfere in America's democratic processes. Clapper, author this year of Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence, also discusses the efforts to brief Trump on Russia, the Mike Flynn case, the decision to pull out of Syria and other concessions to Vladimir Putin from Team Trump. Tune in. It's an engrossing and important discussion.
The post "A Cloud Hanging Over Our Country": 1 on 1 with Gen. James Clapper appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
David Sanger of the New York Times discusses how the Trump Administration’s decision to pull out of the INF Treaty because of Russian non-compliance may be just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the unwinding of the foundational nuclear agreements of the past several decades. He describes why the INF was widely …
The post The Most Dangerous Moment in Half a Century: A Conversation with David Sanger appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
Relax. Keep your champagne on ice. Donald Trump is still president of the United States. And his foreign policy–which is a crudely mixed cocktail of racism and greed with a twist of incompetence–is still what America is serving up to the world. But that won’t always be the case. In fact a New Democratic House …
The post U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post Trump Era: A Conversation with Jake Sullivan appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.
Responding to the reports of Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower Moscow lies and guilty plea, the rising star Congressman from California, Rep. Eric Swalwell, reveals where the new Congress is likely to take investigations into Trump’s business ties and their consequences when it assumes office in January. He asserts the Congress will examine Trump Organization money... …
The post Special Exclusive: The Word is ‘Betrayal’: A Conversation with Rep. Eric Swalwell appeared first on Deep State Radio Network.