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In the Room with Peter Bergen
Audible Originals
90 episodes
8 months ago

Overwhelmed by conflicting narratives and sensationalism in the news? Wondering where you can get an objective analysis and direct-from-the-source reporting?

Look no further than In the Room with Peter Bergen. In a weekly nonpartisan news podcast, longtime national security journalist and bestselling author Peter Bergen goes beyond the headlines, to explore the world’s most important and captivating stories.

Each week, listeners are invited to join Peter as he covers a news topic like war, artificial intelligence, UFOs, and more, including a rare peek inside the FBI's unit that is trying to prevent mass shootings. Balancing various perspectives on the subject, he combines narrative-rich storytelling and interviews with top experts and leaders like former Acting US Secretary of Defense Chris Miller, US Army General David Petraeus, Jen Easterly who leads US efforts to prevent cyberattacks, former US National Security Advisor John Bolton, first-ever female Afghan ambassador to the US Roya Rahmani, and CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward.

Listeners go “in the room” with Peter as he presses his contacts for accurate, on-the-ground information to help his listeners contextualize and understand the impact of these stories on their lives through a quality, trustworthy, and engaging lens.

Get the real story from the people who are there as it unfolds with In the Room with Peter Bergen.

Go to Audible.com/news where you’ll find Peter Bergen's recommendations for other news, journalism, and nonfiction listening.

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Overwhelmed by conflicting narratives and sensationalism in the news? Wondering where you can get an objective analysis and direct-from-the-source reporting?

Look no further than In the Room with Peter Bergen. In a weekly nonpartisan news podcast, longtime national security journalist and bestselling author Peter Bergen goes beyond the headlines, to explore the world’s most important and captivating stories.

Each week, listeners are invited to join Peter as he covers a news topic like war, artificial intelligence, UFOs, and more, including a rare peek inside the FBI's unit that is trying to prevent mass shootings. Balancing various perspectives on the subject, he combines narrative-rich storytelling and interviews with top experts and leaders like former Acting US Secretary of Defense Chris Miller, US Army General David Petraeus, Jen Easterly who leads US efforts to prevent cyberattacks, former US National Security Advisor John Bolton, first-ever female Afghan ambassador to the US Roya Rahmani, and CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward.

Listeners go “in the room” with Peter as he presses his contacts for accurate, on-the-ground information to help his listeners contextualize and understand the impact of these stories on their lives through a quality, trustworthy, and engaging lens.

Get the real story from the people who are there as it unfolds with In the Room with Peter Bergen.

Go to Audible.com/news where you’ll find Peter Bergen's recommendations for other news, journalism, and nonfiction listening.

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In the Room with Peter Bergen
The Future of In the Room
Having published over 80 episodes, In the Room is taking a hiatus, and a chance to think about what other topics and formats we might pursue. Stay tuned!....
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8 months ago
1 minute 24 seconds

In the Room with Peter Bergen
Is A New Nuclear Arms Race Inevitable?
Very quietly, and with little public discussion, the U.S. military has undertaken a $1.5 trillion project to modernize America’s nuclear triad – the planes, submarines and missiles that deliver nuclear weapons.
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10 months ago
46 minutes 46 seconds

In the Room with Peter Bergen
How the CIA got into the Venture Capital Game
With the rise of technology in the late 1990s, a new national security threat quickly emerged. And the U.S. government had to find a way to protect itself — and its secrets — from foreign adversaries and cybercriminals.
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10 months ago
23 minutes 38 seconds

In the Room with Peter Bergen
What Can You Expect From President Trump’s Foreign Policy?
Financial Times columnist Ed Luce says President Donald Trump might love trade wars, but he’d rather not engage in military ones.
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10 months ago
29 minutes 34 seconds

In the Room with Peter Bergen
Trump Wants a Loyal FBI and Justice Department. Here’s How He Plans to Get it.
In his first term, Donald Trump did more to politicize top U.S. law enforcement institutions than any U.S. President, according to journalist David Rohde.
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10 months ago
31 minutes 18 seconds

In the Room with Peter Bergen
Was Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy Actually a Success?
The 39th president is remembered today with great affection. Jimmy Carter’s key initiatives abroad—from Central America to the Middle East, and with human rights at the center — are now looking more visionary by the day.
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11 months ago
52 minutes 15 seconds

In the Room with Peter Bergen
Being a Spy Can Be Pretty Stressful. The CIA is Trying to Help. (Rebroadcast)
The job comes with all sorts of risks and responsibilities plus exposure to a lot of violence and trauma — whether that’s out in a war zone or in the office, where analysts may work on cases involving horrific human rights abuses.
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11 months ago
44 minutes 1 second

In the Room with Peter Bergen
How Do You End An Endless War?
Monica McWilliams and John Alderdice, explain what it takes to get people to sit down with their enemies and whether the path to peace in Northern Ireland offers a way forward for the Middle East.
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11 months ago
41 minutes 13 seconds

In the Room with Peter Bergen
Snatching Mega-Yachts and Blacklisting Banks: Do Sanctions Actually Work?
This week we explore Russian yacht snatching, the impact of sanctions on the Iranian people, and how a once-obscure office inside the Treasury Department ended up putting a chokehold on national economies all over the world.
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11 months ago
34 minutes 41 seconds

In the Room with Peter Bergen
Defund or Unleash: What does effective policing look like?
Peter talks with three thoughtful, accomplished people who have worn the badge to find out what they’ve learned about what is broken in American policing, how to fix it, and whether some types of police work might be better left to someone else.
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12 months ago
40 minutes 7 seconds

In the Room with Peter Bergen
The FBI’s Love Affair with Hollywood
The FBI has had a cozy relationship with Hollywood since the days of the Bureau’s first director, J. Edgar Hoover, working behind the scenes with filmmakers to burnish its image.
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1 year ago
39 minutes 2 seconds

In the Room with Peter Bergen
What is “National Security” Anyway?
Declaring something a matter of “national security” is a great way to get people to take it seriously — and Congress to fund it. After all, what matters more than keeping the United States and its citizens safe from foreign attack?
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1 year ago
35 minutes 57 seconds

In the Room with Peter Bergen
The Alt-Right Was Once Just on the Fringes. Here’s How it Went Mainstream.
After instigating violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, the alt-right movement seemed to crumble — but journalist Elle Reeve, who’s been talking with them for years, says that doesn’t mean their ideas have gone away.
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1 year ago
45 minutes 37 seconds

In the Room with Peter Bergen
How Women Became Central to the Central Intelligence Agency (REBROADCAST)
Peter speaks with a former agent who entered the CIA in 1968, another who got her start just before 9/11, and the author of The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA.
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1 year ago
45 minutes 43 seconds

In the Room with Peter Bergen
In One Michigan County There’s a Republican Fighting to Restore Faith in Elections
Justin Roebuck, a county clerk in the swing state of Michigan, has a license plate that says ‘’I voted.” Roebuck first began volunteering as an election worker at age 16.
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1 year ago
40 minutes 8 seconds

In the Room with Peter Bergen
The Mass Shooting that Everyone Saw Coming
One year ago, Maine experienced the worst mass shooting in its history. It turned out many people and institutions had known for months before that the shooter, Robert Card, was in a mental health crisis and heavily armed.
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1 year ago
47 minutes 13 seconds

In the Room with Peter Bergen
Can Exposing American Secrets Make You Safer?
For almost 40 years, Tom Blanton and the National Security Archive have used the Freedom of Information Act to dislodge and declassify U.S. government secrets, from Cold War backchannels to intelligence failures in the Middle East.
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1 year ago
38 minutes 41 seconds

In the Room with Peter Bergen
There’s a Conspiracy Theory for Just About Everything, So Should You Be Worried?
The moon landing was faked; 9/11 was an inside job — conspiracy theories like these seem to surround most major events now, even when the facts have been well established for years.
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1 year ago
39 minutes 6 seconds

In the Room with Peter Bergen
Revisiting the First MAGA President
Ronald Reagan campaigned on a slogan to “Make America Great Again” and ushered in a new era of conservatism in America.
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1 year ago
43 minutes 46 seconds

In the Room with Peter Bergen
How Modern Autocrats Keep Each Other in Power
Journalist and historian Anne Applebaum has been observing and writing about the rise of authoritarianism for years.
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1 year ago
31 minutes 34 seconds

In the Room with Peter Bergen

Overwhelmed by conflicting narratives and sensationalism in the news? Wondering where you can get an objective analysis and direct-from-the-source reporting?

Look no further than In the Room with Peter Bergen. In a weekly nonpartisan news podcast, longtime national security journalist and bestselling author Peter Bergen goes beyond the headlines, to explore the world’s most important and captivating stories.

Each week, listeners are invited to join Peter as he covers a news topic like war, artificial intelligence, UFOs, and more, including a rare peek inside the FBI's unit that is trying to prevent mass shootings. Balancing various perspectives on the subject, he combines narrative-rich storytelling and interviews with top experts and leaders like former Acting US Secretary of Defense Chris Miller, US Army General David Petraeus, Jen Easterly who leads US efforts to prevent cyberattacks, former US National Security Advisor John Bolton, first-ever female Afghan ambassador to the US Roya Rahmani, and CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward.

Listeners go “in the room” with Peter as he presses his contacts for accurate, on-the-ground information to help his listeners contextualize and understand the impact of these stories on their lives through a quality, trustworthy, and engaging lens.

Get the real story from the people who are there as it unfolds with In the Room with Peter Bergen.

Go to Audible.com/news where you’ll find Peter Bergen's recommendations for other news, journalism, and nonfiction listening.