Margaret Henoch, a former CIA intelligence officer with over two decades of service, shares her firsthand experience challenging faulty WMD intelligence before the Iraq War. Her story reveals how institutional pressure, confirmation bias, and a lack of critical analysis contributed to one of America's most consequential intelligence failures. • Assigned to review reports from "Curveball," a source claiming Iraq had mobile biological weapons labs • Discovered alarming gaps in basic biographic...
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Margaret Henoch, a former CIA intelligence officer with over two decades of service, shares her firsthand experience challenging faulty WMD intelligence before the Iraq War. Her story reveals how institutional pressure, confirmation bias, and a lack of critical analysis contributed to one of America's most consequential intelligence failures. • Assigned to review reports from "Curveball," a source claiming Iraq had mobile biological weapons labs • Discovered alarming gaps in basic biographic...
Security Expert Juliet Kayyem on America's Greatest Threats
The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast
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7 months ago
Security Expert Juliet Kayyem on America's Greatest Threats
What's the number one threat to America today? According to national security expert Juliette Kayyem, it's not what you might expect. "Violence, or the threat of violence, as the accepted extension of our policy differences," she explains, pointing to a troubling shift in our political landscape where violence has become normalized and even state-authorized. As former Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security under President Obama, Harvard lectu...
The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast
Margaret Henoch, a former CIA intelligence officer with over two decades of service, shares her firsthand experience challenging faulty WMD intelligence before the Iraq War. Her story reveals how institutional pressure, confirmation bias, and a lack of critical analysis contributed to one of America's most consequential intelligence failures. • Assigned to review reports from "Curveball," a source claiming Iraq had mobile biological weapons labs • Discovered alarming gaps in basic biographic...
