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Adam Schiff wants to "reset" the House Intelligence Committee

Adam Schiff wants to "reset" the House Intelligence Committee
Updated on: March 3, 2021 / 6:48 AM
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In this episode of
Intelligence Matters, in partnership with the Hayden Center, host Michael Morell talks with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff about the politicization of intelligence and the need to "reset" the committee. Schiff details his support of a thorough review to investigate the Solar Winds hack and urges the intelligence community to address the challenge posed by the rise of China.
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Resetting the House Intelligence Committee: "I would like to get back to some level of comity — I realize it's going to take time. Within the Democratic caucus, there is continuing anger, among other emotions, over the fact that even after the failed insurrection, so many of our Republican colleagues were back on the House floor trying to overturn the results of the election and propagating the same falsehoods that led to that attack on the Capitol. Most of the Republicans on the Intelligence Committee are among that group, but nonetheless, the work of the committee has to get done. I've been talking to Republican members about trying to reset. This is an untold story of the House Intel Committee. Even over the last four years where it was so acrimonious on our committee. We nonetheless got the intelligence authorization acts done every year."

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The women who fought against ISIS — an unusual experiment in women's equality

The women who fought against ISIS — an unusual experiment in women's equality
Updated on: February 18, 2021 / 4:56 PM
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In this podcast episode of
Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell welcomes Gayle Tzemach Lemmon to discuss her new book
The Daughters of Kobani. She tells the story of the Women's Protection Unit (YPJ) and its fight against ISIS alongside American forces. It is, Lemmon says, the most far-reaching experiment in women's equality in the least likely place in the world. Lemmon is an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Daughters of Kobani portrays experiment in women's equality: "The book is about the most far reaching experiment in women's equality in the least likely place in the world, brought to you by women who had been fighting the Islamic State since before it was the Islamic State. They were building a utopia for equality on the ashes of the ISIS fight."

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Nonproliferation expert warns leaders aren't focused on nuclear weapons threat

Nonproliferation expert warns leaders aren't focused on nuclear weapons threat
February 3, 2021 / 6:00 AM
/ CBS News
In this episode of
Intelligence Matters, Michael Morell speaks with Lynn Rusten, vice president of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and leader of the Global Nuclear Policy Program, about the state of nuclear proliferation in the world. Rusten warns that experts aren't focused on the existential threat of nuclear weapons, weighs in on current nuclear treaties and argues that beginning to repair alliances would be a good place to start.
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Leaders aren't focused on nuclear weapons threat: "We are closer to the potential use of a nuclear weapon than we've been since the Cold War. Part of that is because the relations between the nuclear powers, between us and Russia, us and China, are declining and the risk of conflict is growing. At the same time, there's an unprecedented complacency about this. People just aren't focused, including leaders, sufficiently on the risks of these weapons and the risk of miscalculation."

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Biggest factor in U.S.-Middle East relations is perception that U.S. is withdrawing

Biggest factor in U.S.-Middle East relations is perception that U.S. is withdrawing
Updated on: January 6, 2021 / 9:15 AM
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In this episode of
Intelligence Matters, Michael Morell speaks with Will Wechsler, the director of Middle East programs at the Atlantic Council, about why the region is still of strategic importance to the U.S. Wechsler discusses the perception in the Middle East that the U.S. is withdrawing, the influx of young men in the region and the potential for more negotiations after the Abraham Accords.
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Widespread perception of U.S. withdrawal in the Middle East: "If I was going to put my finger on the single most important factor that explains the largest number of actions that are taking place in the region today, it is the widespread perception of American withdrawal. Now, the reality is that unless you compare it to the high points of our occupation of Iraq or Afghanistan, in which case the numbers of troops have gone down from then. But if you compare it more historically, the United States really hasn't withdrawn. We still have a lot of military forces. Our diplomatic presence is second to none, our intelligence efforts, our economic engagement. But this perception remains. The perception is not without merit. The perception comes from actions that consecutive U.S. presidents have taken. It comes from the rhetoric that one hears from the United States."

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Tackling disinformation is national security issue says former NSA general counsel

Tackling disinformation is national security issue says former NSA general counsel
Updated on: December 16, 2020 / 7:58 AM
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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, Michael Morell speaks with former NSA general counsel Glenn Gerstell about national security issues stemming from disinformation on social media. Gerstell outlines legal, technological, and policy approaches the new administration can take to combat the spread of disinformation on social media.
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Disinformation as national security threat: "Disinformation, whether it's foreign or domestic, is a national security threat very simply because it does one of two things. It either sows discord in our society or it undermines confidence in our democratic institutions, whether that's governmental institutions, the press, or other important societal structures. That's why it's a national security threat. What makes it effective is that disinformation falls on receptive eyes and ears. In order to believe some falsehood, you have to be predisposed to it . . . Disinformation doesn't create these societal divisions and prejudices and predispositions. They already exist. But it deepens them and hardens them."

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