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EPISODE #79: TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/05/31/episode-79-col-dr-peter-mansoor-ret-project-veritas-james-okeefe
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: What democracies can learn from Russia's cadet program: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201605311230--tms--amvoicesctnav-bb20160531-20160531-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Dr. Peter Mansoor, Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired), is the General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair of Military History at The Ohio State University. He assumed his academic position in September 2008 after a 26 year career in the U.S. Army that culminated in his service as the executive officer to General David Petraeus, the Commanding General of Multi-National Force-Iraq. A 1982 distinguished graduate of the United States Military Academy, Col. Mansoor commanded the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division from 2003–2005, including thirteen months of combat in Iraq. After relinquishing command, Col. Mansoor resided at the Council on Foreign Relations as a senior military fellow and served as the founding director of the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Dr. Mansoor is the author of The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941-1945, winner of the Society for Military History distinguished book award and the Army Historical Society distinguished book award in 2000; Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq, winner of the Ohioana Library Association nonfiction book of the year award in 2009; and Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War, a finalist for the inaugural 2014 Guggenheim-Lehrman Military History Prize.
James O’Keefe is an award-winning journalist and writer. He is the founder and President of both Project Veritas and Project Veritas Action, non-profit organizations dedicated to investigating corruption, dishonesty, waste and fraud in both public and private institutions.
James O’Keefe’s investigations have led directly to the passage of new legislation, federal and state investigations, congressional inquiries, the defunding of taxpayer-funded groups, resignations, firings, retrainings and disciplinary action.
O’Keefe’s series of voter fraud exposés inspired several states to reform their election laws, forced resignations in Washington, and pushed FBI and Department of Justice officials to defend themselves before federal lawmakers.
His investigation into ACORN led to the group’s collapse. He caused a Planned Parenthood Vice President to be fired, National Public Radio executives to be fired, an Enroll America director to be fired, Medicaid worker retrainings, an investigation into Battleground Texas, and Congressional field hearings into Obamacare navigator fraud.
The Nation magazine wrote, “O’Keefe’s influence on voting rights opponents and legislators alike is particularly jarring.” Slate.com agreed, “O’Keefe has had more of an impact on the 2012 election than any other journalist.”
In 2013, O’Keefe authored New York Times bestseller, Breakthrough: Our Guerilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy, the inside story of the challenges he faced bringing his powerful new form of guerilla reporting to the forefront.
In May of 2014, O’Keefe released videos at the Cannes Film Festival showing Hollywood environmentalists agreeing to take money from phony Middle Eastern oil tycoons to fund anti-fracking movies. The videos prompted a U.S. Senate investigation into the funding sources of NGOs.
During the summer of 2014, an investigation by Project Veritas transformed the discussion on national security. Dressed as Osama bin Laden, James O’Keefe crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into the United States. In a follow-up video, Project Veritas exposed the lack of security at the northern border as an investigator dressed as an ISIS terrorist crossed Lake Erie into Cleveland. In his grilling of officials from the Department of Homeland Security, Senator John McCain referenced the investigations as proof of the failure to secure the border.
Heading into the crucial fall elections of 2014, James O’Keefe launched Project Veritas Action, which launched investigations in four key Senate battleground states to expose the hypocrisy of candidates who were saying one thing to the voters and something entirely different to their close supporters. All four Senate candidates exposed by O’Keefe lost their races, some by incredibly narrow margins.
In 2015, O’Keefe oversaw the expansion of both Project Veritas and Project Veritas Action, providing the vision and direction for projects that increased the training, professionalism, and reach of both organizations. During the expansion, both organizations released impactful investigations. Most notably, Project Veritas conducted investigations of the Veterans Administration, political correctness on campus, and the corruption within the racial grievance industry. Project Veritas Action reported on multiple instances of the Hillary Clinton campaign violating state and federal campaign law.
O’Keefe is a graduate of Rutgers University. He founded an independent newspaper in College called The Centurion. He is a 2014 recipient of the Young Professional Conservative Leadership “Buckley Award” awarded to “young professionals in recognition of significant achievements in advancing the conservative cause.” He is the recipient of the Robert Novak Award for Journalistic Excellence (2011), has been named “Fox News Power Player of the Week” twice, and was on the Forbes “30 Under 30” for media moguls.
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EPISODE #78: TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/05/24/episode-78-behind-the-egypt-air-crash-and-new-international-trade-deals
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Time to shove the 'free love' generation out the door: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201605241330--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160524-20160524-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Frank Samolis is co-chair of the international trade trade practice group at the international law firm Squire Patton Boggs' Washington DC office. He advises clients on international trade matters, including trade law, trade policy and legislation, and international trade negotiations. He is also the leader of the firm’s Colombia/Chile Country Desk.
"Jonathan" is a manager of Condor Security Enterprises, an Israeli security consulting and training institution that specializes in advanced solutions for the law enforcement, security operatives and professional communities. Established in 1996, the staff is composed of operatives from the Israeli security establishment that have had vast field experience combined with management and instructional positions. www.condor-security.com
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EPISODE #77: TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/05/17/episode-77-cia-officers-fmr-eric-burkhart-and-scott-uehlinger-spy-films
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: New leak reveals the fun and follies of the NSA: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201605171530--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160517-20160517-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
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EPISODE #XX: TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2016
SHOW LINK:
This episode cancelled due to prohibitive technical issues with the broadcast platform, which should be resolved by next week. See you then!
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: "America First" is a battle cry for the oppressed middle class: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201605101200--tms--amvoicesctnav-cc20160510-20160510-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
This episode cancelled due to prohibitive technical issues with the broadcast platform, which should be resolved by next week. See you then!
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EPISODE #76; TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/05/03/episode-76-ioannis-koskinas-gilbert-doctorow-on-the-latest-global-events
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Hillary's 'woman card' doesn't make a winning hand http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201605031200--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160503-20160503-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Ioannis “Gianni” Koskinas is the Senior Fellow, International Security Program, at the New America Foundation and the Chief Executive Officer for the Hoplite Group LLC, a risk consulting company that assists partners and clients identify, analyze, and mitigate political, integrity, and security risks. His team provides sustainable and innovative solutions to complex problems, in the most challenging environments and harshest conditions. His primary interests as a New American Foundation Senior Fellow are: entrepreneurial solutions to Security and Stability in Conflict Zones with emphasis on understanding the indigenous political power struggles that act as destabilizing agents. He is a regular contributor to Defense One and Foreign Policy’s South Asia Channel – a special project with FP, New America Foundation and Johns Hopkins SAIS.
In the private sector, Mr. Koskinas leads a team of risk mitigation strategists who gather, analyze, and offer bespoke reports to a variety of clients that include security and legal firms, oil/gas and mining companies, and aviation services partners. Hoplite Group stresses community engagement and responsible corporate social responsibility projects that benefit economies, provide social services at the lowest possible level and deliver community-based security arrangements. Additionally, Mr. Koskinas has advised the U.S. Department of Defense and senior Afghan, UAE, and European officials on security and strategic planning.
Prior to his retirement from the military, Colonel Koskinas served on active duty in the United States Air Force for 20 years. He finished his career as the principal advisor to the Honorable Mike Vickers, helping Mr. Vickers craft all policy directives relating to Afghanistan-Pakistan region and other select counter terrorism programs. Previously, he had served as senior advisor to the Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) General Stanley McChrystal in Afghanistan, where amongst his other duties supporting Gen McChrystal, Col Koskinas was the principal ghost author of Commander’s Weekly Assessment to Secretary of Defense and the NATO Secretary General.
Gilbert Doctorow is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on Russia and Eastern Europe.
For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. In the year 2000, he closed his corporate career as General Director in Russia and the CIS for the U.K. based multinational, Diageo.
From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. Since 2006, he has regularly published analytical articles about international affairs on the portal of the Belgian daily La Libre Belgique, as well as in the alternative media portal Consortium News in Washington, D.C. and traditional print media including The Nation.
He is the author of three books in the political science field including two collections of essays on Russian-American-European relations in the period 2008-15. In February 2015, he became a Founding Board Member and the European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord Ltd, an organization promoting round table public discussions of key issues in international security. For the past 35 years Doctorow has maintained a residence in Brussels, Belgium. He has participated in scholarly panels devoted to the future of the Kingdom of Belgium held at the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities in Columbia University.
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EPISODE #75: TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/04/26/episode-75-russian-expert-dmitry-zolotarev-real-estate-expert-jason-hartman
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Referendums on immigration are long overdue: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201604261500--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160426-20160426-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Dmitry Zolotarev is an independent Russian journalist specializing in international politics who has worked both as a TV And radio anchor, a deputy editor, and for major newspapers of Eastern Siberia.
Jason Hartman has been involved in several thousand real estate transactions and has owned income properties in 11 states and 17 cities. His company, Platinum Properties Investor Network, Inc. helps people achieve The American Dream of financial freedom by purchasing income property in prudent markets nationwide. Jason’s Complete Solution for Real Estate Investors™ is a comprehensive system providing real estate investors with education, research, resources and technology to deal with all areas of their income property investment needs.
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EPISODE #74: TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/04/19/episode-74-webb-hubbell-on-us-election-joshua-philipp-on-chinese-intel
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: America needs an economic-wartime president: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201604191230--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160419-20160419-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Webb Hubbell is a nationally recognized award winning author and popular lecturer on the U.S. criminal justice system, politics and government, writing a novel, and life lessons from sports. He also writes, speaks, and advocates publicly on social issues including theinhumanity of solitary confinement, racial bias in the criminal justice system, the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction, the marijuana legalization movement, and the miracle of organ transplants.
Webb has held executive positions in government and industry, including Associate Attorney General of the United States, Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Mayor of Little Rock, Ark., Managing Partner of the Rose Law Firm, and Executive and Chief Counsel for a large Washington-based commercial insurance company.
A prolific writer, Webb’s novel, When Men Betray (Beaufort Books, May 2014), is the first in a series of legal thrillers set in his hometown of Little Rock, Ark. It was recently recognized as one of Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Winners. His second novel,Ginger Snaps (Beaufort Books, May 2015) was released to rave reviews, as well. His third novel, A Game of Inches, will be released in May 2016 and may be preordered online, at your local bookstore, or by going to webbhubbell.com. The novels draw liberally from Webb’s own life, featuring recognizable personalities and locales from the Arkansas political scene while exploring personal themes of friendship, race relations, betrayal, and redemption.
Webb’s previously published book is Friends in High Places (William Morrow & Co., 1997). An autobiographical account of his rise at a young age through the Arkansas political system, it explores his personal successes and failures there and in Washington, D.C., as a member of President Bill Clinton’s administration.
On the forefront of current political and social thought, Webb comments on politics and related issues at Hubbell’s Telescope for The Clyde Fitch Report. He also writes a daily meditation at The Hubbell Pew, a personal blog he founded as a Lenten tradition in 2004.
Born in Little Rock in 1948, Webb earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1970 and a juris doctor degree with honors in 1973 from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He played football for Arkansas from 1965 to 1969. During his senior year, the Razorbacks were Southwest Conference co-champions and winners of the 1969 Sugar Bowl against undefeated University of Georgia.
Webb and his wife, Suzy, have four children and live in Charlotte, N.C.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/webbhubbellfanpage/?fref=ts
Twitter: @WebbHubbell
Website: http://webbhubbell.com/
Joshua Philipp is an award-winning investigative journalist at Epoch Times where he covers national security relating to China. He is an expert on China's role and approaches to espionage, theft of trade secrets, and strategies for unconventional warfare, including both human (HUMINT) and cyber (SIGINT) approaches. From 2008 to 2010, he conducted on-the-ground investigations into the Triads and uncovered their connections to the Chinese Communist Party. He has since uncovered several Chinese programs for spying on their citizens abroad, pressuring dissidents, influencing politics, and infiltrating Western companies. You can find his latest stories at http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/author/joshua-philipp/
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EPISODE #73: TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2016 ("Best Of": Original airdate: February 2, 2016)
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/04/12/episode-73-us-election-w-operative-roger-stone-policy-expert-timothy-lee
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Russia and America should unite against the Saudi-China alliance: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201604121430--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160412-20160412-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Roger Stone is a seasoned political operative and pundit. A veteran of eight presidential campaigns, he served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents before leaving the GOP for the Libertarian Party. He is the author of the bestsellers The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ and The Clintons’ War on Women. His newest book is Jeb! and the Bush crime family: The inside story of an American dynasty. For information on all his books, visit RogerStone.com.
Timothy Lee is Senior Vice President of legal and public affairs at the Center for Individual Freedom (www.cfif.org), a non-profit organization founded in 1998 with the mission to protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
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EPISODE #72: TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2016 ("Best Of": Original airdate: January 19, 2016)
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/04/05/episode-72-webb-hubbell-on-us-election-cia-ops-officer-eric-burkhart
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Offshore banking fuels the perversion of capitalism: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201604051400--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20160405-20160405-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Webb Hubbell is a nationally recognized award winning author and popular lecturer on the U.S. criminal justice system, politics and government, writing a novel, and life lessons from sports. He also writes, speaks, and advocates publicly on social issues including theinhumanity of solitary confinement, racial bias in the criminal justice system, the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction, the marijuana legalization movement, and the miracle of organ transplants.
Webb has held executive positions in government and industry, including Associate Attorney General of the United States, Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Mayor of Little Rock, Ark., Managing Partner of the Rose Law Firm, and Executive and Chief Counsel for a large Washington-based commercial insurance company.
A prolific writer, Webb’s novel, When Men Betray (Beaufort Books, May 2014), is the first in a series of legal thrillers set in his hometown of Little Rock, Ark. It was recently recognized as one of Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Winners. His second novel,Ginger Snaps (Beaufort Books, May 2015) was released to rave reviews, as well. His third novel, A Game of Inches, will be released in May 2016 and may be preordered online, at your local bookstore, or by going to webbhubbell.com. The novels draw liberally from Webb’s own life, featuring recognizable personalities and locales from the Arkansas political scene while exploring personal themes of friendship, race relations, betrayal, and redemption.
Webb’s previously published book is Friends in High Places (William Morrow & Co., 1997). An autobiographical account of his rise at a young age through the Arkansas political system, it explores his personal successes and failures there and in Washington, D.C., as a member of President Bill Clinton’s administration.
On the forefront of current political and social thought, Webb comments on politics and related issues at Hubbell’s Telescope for The Clyde Fitch Report. He also writes a daily meditation at The Hubbell Pew, a personal blog he founded as a Lenten tradition in 2004.
Born in Little Rock in 1948, Webb earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1970 and a juris doctor degree with honors in 1973 from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He played football for Arkansas from 1965 to 1969. During his senior year, the Razorbacks were Southwest Conference co-champions and winners of the 1969 Sugar Bowl against undefeated University of Georgia.
Webb and his wife, Suzy, have four children and live in Charlotte, N.C.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/webbhubbellfanpage/?fref=ts
Twitter: @WebbHubbell
Website: http://webbhubbell.com/
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
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EPISODE #71: TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/03/29/episode-71belgium-terror-aftermath-wg-doctorow-us-election-wjack-abramoff
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: The most dangerous form of tyranny is weakness: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201603291130--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160329-20160329-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Jack Abramoff is the host of "Our Nation" at ournation.tv, and arguably one of the world’s most famous lobbyists and former Washington power players. His rollercoaster life story might as well be a major motion picture. In fact, it is. Already two major motion pictures based on Abramoff’s story have hit the silver screen. Dubbed on the cover of Time Magazine as the “Man Who Bought Washington”, Abramoff rose to become the nation’s most successful and prominent lobbyist, before becoming enmeshed in the most harrowing political scandal since Watergate.
Having served 43 months in federal prison, Abramoff is out and ready to speak. Few know more than he about how Washington really works. Abramoff once labeled the dysfunctional and Byzantine system which has become our federal government as the “favor factory”. None can better show why this factory needs to be shuttered, so good government and democracy can prevail.
Born in Atlantic City, raised in Beverly Hills, California, Abramoff was graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in English Literature and Opera. At Brandeis, Abramoff commenced his political career, heading the state-wide College Republican group and was credited with delivering Massachusetts to Ronald Reagan in 1980, the first time since Eisenhower that a Republican would win the Bay State. Abramoff was soon elected as the national chairman of the College Republicans and built that organization into the largest student political organization in the free world.
His next position foreshadowed his rise to national prominence, as he was chosen to head President Reagan’s grassroots lobbying organization. In this role, Abramoff honed the lobbying skills he would later deploy to become the nation’s top legislative advocate. Under his leadership the organization moved major Reagan administration initiatives through the Congress and sponsored the world’s first convocation of anti-Soviet forces in the bush of Southern Africa.
As the Reagan era wound down, Abramoff moved from the world of politics to the world of cinema, becoming a motion picture producer – making action adventure films, including “Red Scorpion”. His international experience in structuring motion picture finance made him a popular lecturer at Georgetown University Law Center, where he had been graduated in 1986; but the siren call of politics drew Abramoff back to his roots, and in 1994, he joined the lobbying division of the law firm headed by Bill Gates’ father. Abramoff set to work and, within a few years, built one of the nation’s most prestigious and profitable lobbying practices. As Abramoff continued to build, his political base expanded and soon he found himself at the top of his profession.
When a corporation, Indian tribe, or foreign nation needed to win, they went to Team Abramoff, the eclectic hand-picked team of lobbying guns he assembled. Their clients rarely were defeated, and reaped billions of dollars of benefit.
Abramoff’s arsenal included his Signatures restaurant, one of the Capital’s finest, some of the best sports tickets in the nation, and an unlimited capacity to raise funds to fuel the political system which made his influence possible.
Abramoff had it all. And then it was gone. In an instant, his world collapsed and Abramoff fell into the abyss, eventually landing in federal prison, his name becoming synonymous with corruption and what’s wrong with our government.
The fall from grace changed Jack Abramoff and woke him up. And now, Abramoff is determined to do all he can to rectify the wrong he did and to identify and help end the corruption of the system he so well played. His orations will not only serve as a cautionary tale, but as an historic platform for reform of the system. Website: www.abramoff.com
Gilbert Doctorow is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on Russia and Eastern Europe.
For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. In the year 2000, he closed his corporate career as General Director in Russia and the CIS for the U.K. based multinational, Diageo.
From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. Since 2006, he has regularly published analytical articles about international affairs on the portal of the Belgian daily La Libre Belgique, as well as in the alternative media portal Consortium News in Washington, D.C. and traditional print media including The Nation.
He is the author of three books in the political science field including two collections of essays on Russian-American-European relations in the period 2008-15. In February 2015, he became a Founding Board Member and the European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord Ltd, an organization promoting round table public discussions of key issues in international security. For the past 35 years Doctorow has maintained a residence in Brussels, Belgium. He has participated in scholarly panels devoted to the future of the Kingdom of Belgium held at the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities in Columbia University.
See his recent analytical essay on the March 22, 2016 terrorist bombings in Brussels: http://usforeignpolicy.blogs.lalibre.be/archive/2016/03/27/belgian-political-culture-and-the-terror-attacks-in-brussels-1150356.html
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EPISODE #70: TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/03/22/episode-70-andrew-rasiulis-fmr-cdn-dod-bruce-klinger-on-dprk-prisoner
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Attacks in Belgium a symptom of government failure: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201603221430--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160322-20160322-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Andrew Rasiulis is a Fellow with the Canadian Defense And Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI). He completed his undergraduate study in Political Science/History at the University of Toronto in 1978 and received his Master of Arts from the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, in Strategic Studies in 1979. In 1979 Mr. Rasiulis was appointed a commissioned officer in the Canadian Forces Primary Reserve (Governor General's Foot Guards).
He joined the Department of National Defence in 1979 as an analyst with the Directorate of Strategic Analysis, specializing in strategic politico-military issues pertaining to conventional forces. These issues included emerging concepts of conventional defence strategies for Western Europe, as well as the Canadian Government's efforts in the area of conventional arms control. In 1987, Mr. Rasiulis was promoted to Section Head, within the Directorate of Nuclear and Arms Control Policy, responsible for conventional arms control policy. He was also the Department of National Defence representative on NATO's High Level Task Force for conventional arms control from its inception in 1986 to 1989.
In June 1989 Mr. Rasiulis was posted as a Defence Advisor to the Canadian Delegation for Conventional Arms Control Talks in Vienna. Upon completion of his tour Mr. Rasiulis returned to National Defence Headquarters in April 1992 as Section Head responsible for policy on Central and Eastern Europe, including the Department's Military Training and Assistance Program (MTAP) with Central and Eastern Europe. In May 1996, Mr. Rasiulis was also assigned the responsibility of Programme Manager for the entire MTAP. He was subsequently designated as Director, Military Training Assistance Programme (and Eastern European Policy) in 1998.
Reflecting the growth of responsibility within the area of defence diplomacy, Mr. Rasiulis was re-designated Director Military Training and Cooperation in 2009. His responsibilities included the development of the policy for defence training cooperation with developing countries world wide, as well as overseeing its operational implementation.
Mr. Rasiulis' MA thesis, On the Utility of War in the Nuclear Age, developed a theory on limited conventional war. It was subsequently published as a Wellesley Paper in 1981 by the Canadian Institute for International Affairs and the Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies. He has also published numerous articles on conventional strategy, arms control and international military training cooperation.
Mr Rasiulis is retired from the Public Service and is now a freelance consultant with Andrew Rasiulis Associates Inc.
Bruce Klingner specializes in Korean and Japanese affairs as the senior research fellow for Northeast Asia at The Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center.
Klingner’s analysis and writing about North Korea, South Korea and Japan, as well as related issues, are informed by his 20 years of service at the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Klingner, who joined Heritage in 2007, has testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
He is a frequent commentator in U.S. and foreign media. His articles and commentary have appeared in major American and foreign publications and he is a regular guest on broadcast and cable news outlets. He is a regular contributor to the international and security sections of The Daily Signal.
From 1996 to 2001, Klingner was CIA’s deputy division chief for Korea, responsible for the analysis of political, military, economic and leadership issues for the president of the United States and other senior U.S. policymakers. In 1993-1994, he was the chief of CIA's Korea branch, which analyzed military developments during a nuclear crisis with North Korea.
Klingner is a distinguished graduate of the National War College, where he received a master's degree in national security strategy in 2002. He also holds a master's degree in strategic intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College and a bachelor's degree in political science from Middlebury College in Vermont.
He is active in Korean martial arts, attaining third-degree black belt in taekwondo and first-degree black belt in hapkido and teuk kong moo sool.
Follow him on Twitter: @bruceklingner
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EPISODE #69: TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/03/15/episode-69-fmr-cia-officers-scott-uehlinger-eric-burkhart
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Establishment elites going all out to derail the Trump Express: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201603151130--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20160315-20160315-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
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EPISODE #68: TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/03/09/episode-68-cias-jason-hanson-on-evasion-mark-bourrie-on-isis-propaganda
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Greece besieged by crises, mystified by Trump: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201603081130--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160308-20160308-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Jason Hanson is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. Over the past several years, he has trained thousands of Americans in personal protection, concealed carry, pistol, rifle, shotgun, and escape & evasion courses. He is skilled in Personal Protection, Risk Assessment, Firearms, Security Operations, Private Investigations, Counter Terrorism, Vulnerability Assessment, Emergency Management. www.spyescapeandevasion.com
Dr. Mark Bourrie is quickly emerging as the country’s leading expert and author on propaganda and censorship. His newest book, out today, is The Killing Game: Martyrdom, Murder, and the Lure of ISIS. He is also an award-winning writer and a respected military historian with academic qualifications that give heft to his views. He holds a PhD in History, has been a consultant to the Canadian War Museum on propaganda and war coverage, and has written two very well received books on information control: The Fog of War: Censorship of Canada’s Media in World War Two and Kill the Messengers: Stephen Harper’s Assault on Your Right to Know.
A National Magazine Award-winning journalist, he has been a member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery since 1994. Bourrie lectures on propaganda and censorship at the Department of National Defence School of Public Affairs and periodically teaches courses on media history, censorship and propaganda at Carleton University and Canadian Studies at the University of Ottawa. He is also pursuing a law degree at the University of Ottawa.
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EPISODE #67: TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/03/02/episode-67-fmr-ussss-michael-mullen-fmr-green-beret-dr-patrick-christian
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Trump is succeeding where Occupy Wall Street failed: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201603011130--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20160301-20160301-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Michael Mullen is Vice President of Special Investigations with LookingGlass Cyber Solutions in Arlington, Virginia. He oversees products that include web and social media monitoring and in-depth analysis of online indications and warnings related to physical threats to employees, contractors and executives, as well as high-profile employees and celebrities. Prior to joining LookingGlass, he served 25 years as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service, with assignments including the Presidential Protective Division and Counter Assault Program.
Dr Patrick James Christian is an Adjunct Research Professor with the United States Special Operations Command’s Joint Special Operations University, tasked with documenting and analyzing the sociological breakdown and psychological devolvement of tribes/clans in violent conflict. His work is part of a research and development effort leading to evolving military and diplomatic approaches to security sector reform, internal defense & development and foreign internal defense. He was a US Army Green Beret officer with twenty-four years of experience in the practice and research of intra-state violence, civil war and tribal conflict. He has lead field teams conducting combat advisory missions, tribal engagement and counterinsurgency operations
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EPISODE #66: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/02/24/episode-66-tom-withington-on-defence-tech-phil-lieberman-on-apple-vs-the-fbi
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Has technology saved us from a dystopian future, or created one? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201602231300--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20160223-20160223-column.html
RACHEL MARSDEN'S NEW ARMADA INTERNATIONAL ARTICLE ON MILITARY CYBERWARFARE: http://www.rachelmarsden.com/cyberactive.pdf
GUEST LINEUP:
Philip Lieberman is President and CEO of Lieberman Software, as well as an outspoken and highly regarded technology expert who is quoted by national, business and trade press on cyber security. Lieberman has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Reuters, The Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, The Washington Post, USA Today and BBC News, as well as prestigious industry publications including Computerworld, CSO, Dark Reading, eWeek, IDG News, Informationweek and MIT Technology Review.
Lieberman is the chief blogger at Identity Week www.identityweek.com
A highly accomplished software engineer by training with over 30 years of experience, Lieberman is able to astutely perceive shortcomings in existing products on the market, and fill those gaps with innovative solutions. As president and founder of Lieberman Software, he developed the first products for the privileged password management and shared account password management space, and continues to introduce new solutions to resolve the security threat of common local account credentials.
Lieberman has published numerous books in the field of computer science, has taught at UCLA, and has been the author of many computer science courses. He has a B.A. from San Francisco State University (1981) in Physics with minors in Computer Science and Business.
Recent media coverage can be found at: http://www.liebsoft.com/In_The_News/
Thomas Withington is the Editor of Armada International and the Asian Military Review; two of the world's leading defense publications. He has almost twenty years experience in defense and military affairs, specializing in radar, electronic warfare and airpower. He is a published author, and a regular commentator on military issues around the world.
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EPISODE #65: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/02/17/episode-65-global-events-with-ltcdr-james-sisco-us-maj-chris-hunter-uk
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Candidates are peddling a laughable Syria narrative: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201602161500--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160216-20160216-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Major Chris Hunter QGM joined the British Army in 1989 as a sixteen-year-old army apprentice. He trained initially as a Russian linguist working in defence intelligence and after four years of enlisted service was selected to undergo officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He graduated at twenty-one, and was subsequently awarded the Carmen Sword of Honour. He was then commissioned into the Royal Logistic Corps (RLC)–the route that would eventually lead to his becoming an Ammunition Technical Officer (the British Army’s bomb disposal operators).
He served as a troop commander on operations in the Balkans, East Africa and Northern Ireland and undertook arctic warfare training in Norway, before becoming an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) operator. As an operator he deployed on two high-threat tours in Northern Ireland and one in Iraq, undertook EOD protection duties for the Royal Family and assisted in the planning and conduct of numerous police arrest operations involving the threat of explosive devices. He was also the designated technical Operations Officer for the national contingency response to the terrorist use of a weapon of mass destruction in the UK. He was later involved with a number of UK Special Forces counter terrorism units and saw active service in Afghanistan, Colombia and Iraq as well as on counter-terrorism operations in the UK.
For his actions in Iraq he was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal. He retired from the MoD in January 2007 as the MoD’s senior IED intelligence analyst and has since become a writer, broadcaster and the director of a counter-IED consultancy company. Hunter is also a Fellow of the Institute of Explosives Engineers, a Member of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators and a regular contributor to television, radio news and current affairs programs.
James Sisco is a retired Lieutenant Commander, Reconnaissance Marine, and Naval Intelligence Officer with the U.S. Navy and the founder and President of ENODO Global. His career spans from leading Marine Reconnaissance missions in OPERATION DESERT STORM to supporting the U.S. Director of National Intelligence as an authority on Afghanistan. Career highlights include leading training missions in Africa while assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia and co-authoring the “Navy Counter-Terrorism Optimization Report” while assigned to the Navy’s premier strategic studies group “Deep Blue.” As a result, he was hand-selected to establish the U.S. Navy’s Irregular Warfare Office. Jim also coauthored “Left of Bang” with Lieutenant General Flynn, U.S. Army, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and is recognized within the intelligence community as a leader in socio-cultural analysis. In 2001, he led strike operations for U.S. Navy Carrier Air Wing One and in 2005 he served as the U.S. military liaison to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. He returned to Afghanistan in 2009 and was assigned to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s International Security Assistance Force’s Force-Reintegration Cell (ISAF-FRIC) where he led ISAF reintegration activities throughout the country. These experiences resulted in an assignment to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence where he managed Afghanistan intelligence and integration programs for the National Security Council.
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EPISODE #64: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/02/10/episode-64-sam-katz-on-israeli-counterterrorism-crisis-expert-eric-dezenhall
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: U.S. presidential candidates offer action-movie solutions to foreign-policy problems: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201602091300--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160209-20160209-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Sam Katz is an internationally recognized expert and speaker on Middle East security issues, international terrorism, and military special operations, and has appeared on networks including BBC World News, Fox News, Al Jazeera, and CNN. He has written over twenty books on the Arab-Israeli conflict; is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi; and founded the Special Operations Report, a quarterly magazine dedicated to military and law enforcement operations and counterterrorism. His new book, THE GHOST WARRIORS: Inside Israel’s Undercover War Against Suicide Terrorism, offers a rare, compelling, inside look at Israel’s small and highly secretive Border Guard undercover unit called the Ya’mas—composed of Druze, Bedouins and Jews, who masquerade as indigenous Palestinians in order to infiltrate terrorist-controlled areas.
Eric Dezenhall is the founder and CEO of Dezenhall Resources -- a Washington, DC-based strategic communications firm and the author of several books on crisis management. His latest: Glass Jaw: A Manifesto for Defending Fragile Reputations in an Age of Instant Scandal (12 Books, October 2014), explores how once-powerful people, organizations and brands are easily brought down by seemingly powerless forces through the media and internet, which feed almost exclusively on destructive information. The book highlights new, often counter-intuitive strategies for fighting back.
Eric is on the faculty of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business where he teaches a course on crisis management and marketplace defense to MBA students. He has taught at the American Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education programs on subjects including securities fraud litigation and managing high-profile trials. He has also lectured at graduate and undergraduate programs at institutions including Georgetown, New York University, Dartmouth and the University of Maryland, in addition to the United States Army and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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EPISODE #63: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/02/03/episode-63-iowa-primaries-w-operative-roger-stone-policy-expert-timothy-lee
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Voters need to stop falling for smooth talkers http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201602021530--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20160202-20160202-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Roger Stone is a seasoned political operative and pundit. A veteran of eight presidential campaigns, he served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents before leaving the GOP for the Libertarian Party. He is the author of the bestsellers The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ and The Clintons’ War on Women. His newest book is Jeb! and the Bush crime family: The inside story of an American dynasty. For information on all his books, visit RogerStone.com.
Timothy Lee is Senior Vice President of legal and public affairs at the Center for Individual Freedom (www.cfif.org), a non-profit organization founded in 1998 with the mission to protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
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EPISODE #62: TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/01/27/episode-62-former-mi6-officer-nuclear-vulnerabilities
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Donald Trump has France talking: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201601261300--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160126-20160126-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Carlton King was a senior Scotland Yard Special Branch officer who spent his whole twenty-eight year career working in covert political policing, intelligence and security including extremism, terrorism and espionage. For several of those years Carlton was an SIS (MI6) Case Officer in that organisation’s counter terrorism section. In SIS CT Carlton worked world-wide against the UK’s enemies. After a year in the NPOIU, heading up that organisation’s Strategic Analysis Unit informing Police, Government, MOD and the Agencies of potential future threats to the nation, Carlton returned to MPSB.In MPSB Carlton ran a plethora of protection operations in the UK and throughout world especially in high threat low infrastructure environments and warzones. Forever traveling, Carlton has worked with most police, intelligence and security service agencies from throughout the world. Prior to joining the British services Carlton was an Exchange Detective for the US Department of Defence in West Germany after initially spending time as a German Haus Detektiv.
Tim Erlin is director of IT security and risk strategy at Tripwire and has over 10 years’ experience in addressing cybersecurity issues in organizations of all types. Tim is a member of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and frequently advises corporations and government agencies on cloud security management. His commentary has been featured regularly in publications such as Forbes, PC World and Next Gov; and he has been interviewed on CNN’s Situation Room and the PBS Newshour. His career in information technology began with project management, customer service, as well as systems and network administration. Erlin is actively involved in the information security community. His contributions include blogging, podcasts, press, speaking and television.
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EPISODE #61: TUESDAY, JANUARY 19 ,2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/01/20/episode-61-webb-hubbell-on-us-presidency-cia-ops-officer-eric-burkhart
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Lifting of Iranian sanctions prompts senseless worries: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201601191330--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20160119-20160119-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Webb Hubbell is a nationally recognized award winning author and popular lecturer on the U.S. criminal justice system, politics and government, writing a novel, and life lessons from sports. He also writes, speaks, and advocates publicly on social issues including theinhumanity of solitary confinement, racial bias in the criminal justice system, the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction, the marijuana legalization movement, and the miracle of organ transplants.
Webb has held executive positions in government and industry, including Associate Attorney General of the United States, Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Mayor of Little Rock, Ark., Managing Partner of the Rose Law Firm, and Executive and Chief Counsel for a large Washington-based commercial insurance company.
A prolific writer, Webb’s novel, When Men Betray (Beaufort Books, May 2014), is the first in a series of legal thrillers set in his hometown of Little Rock, Ark. It was recently recognized as one of Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Winners. His second novel,Ginger Snaps (Beaufort Books, May 2015) was released to rave reviews, as well. His third novel, A Game of Inches, will be released in May 2016 and may be preordered online, at your local bookstore, or by going to webbhubbell.com. The novels draw liberally from Webb’s own life, featuring recognizable personalities and locales from the Arkansas political scene while exploring personal themes of friendship, race relations, betrayal, and redemption.
Webb’s previously published book is Friends in High Places (William Morrow & Co., 1997). An autobiographical account of his rise at a young age through the Arkansas political system, it explores his personal successes and failures there and in Washington, D.C., as a member of President Bill Clinton’s administration.
On the forefront of current political and social thought, Webb comments on politics and related issues at Hubbell’s Telescope for The Clyde Fitch Report. He also writes a daily meditation at The Hubbell Pew, a personal blog he founded as a Lenten tradition in 2004.
Born in Little Rock in 1948, Webb earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1970 and a juris doctor degree with honors in 1973 from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He played football for Arkansas from 1965 to 1969. During his senior year, the Razorbacks were Southwest Conference co-champions and winners of the 1969 Sugar Bowl against undefeated University of Georgia.
Webb and his wife, Suzy, have four children and live in Charlotte, N.C.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/webbhubbellfanpage/?fref=ts
Twitter: @WebbHubbell
Website: http://webbhubbell.com/
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
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EPISODE #60: TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2016 ("Best Of": Original airdate: December 1, 2015)
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/01/13/episode-60-fmr-cia-station-chief-russian-expert-chinese-intel-expert
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Germany dealing with pains of failed integration http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201601121430--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20160112-20160112-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
Joshua Philipp is an award-winning investigative journalist at Epoch Times where he covers national security relating to China. He is an expert on China's role and approaches to espionage, theft of trade secrets, and strategies for unconventional warfare, including both human (HUMINT) and cyber (SIGINT) approaches. From 2008 to 2010, he conducted on-the-ground investigations into the Triads and uncovered their connections to the Chinese Communist Party. He has since uncovered several Chinese programs for spying on their citizens abroad, pressuring dissidents, influencing politics, and infiltrating Western companies. You can find his latest stories at http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/author/joshua-philipp/
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EPISODE #59: TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2016 ("Best Of": Original airdate: November 3, 2015)
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/01/06/episode-59-a-new-cyberespionage-campaign-us-presidential-campaign-spin
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Obama's executive actions to put taxpayers under the gun: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201601051400--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160105-20160105-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Chris Coleman has served as the president, chief executive officer, and board member of LookingGlass since July 2013. Before joining LookingGlass, Chris was the Director of Cyber Security for U.S Public Sector at Cisco Systems. Prior to Cisco Chris held senior executive positions at ManTech International and was a partner at Integrated Data Systems, acquired by ManTech in 2003. Chris brings over 20 years of business experience in cyber security and the technology industry to his role as CEO of LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, Inc. https://lgscout.com/about-us/leadership/chris-coleman-chief-executive-officer/
Jason Lewis is an experienced network analyst that has worked in network security since 1996. He has led both private sector and government technology initiatives that have proven to be instrumental in advancing the cyber threat intelligence field. As Chief Collection and Intelligence Officer, Jason leads the analysis and research efforts at LookingGlass, which includes maintaining and expanding a global sensor network for tracking exploits and malicious hosts, exploring new technologies for improving current data analysis techniques, evaluating and obtaining new sources and types of data and investigating new threats to infrastructure and techniques used by malicious actors. He is responsible for maintaining a world-class research team and contributing to an industry-leading product set.
Prior to joining LookingGlass, Jason worked to support the intelligence community as a government employee with the Department of Defense. As a Global Network Exploitation and Vulnerability Analyst with U.S. Department of Defense, Jason used his experience as a network security engineer to analyze network data of interest and provide actionable reporting for Counter Terrorism and Target Analysts. This work included routing analysis, protocol decode and malware analysis as well as other tactics and techniques. https://lgscout.com/about-us/leadership/jason-lewis-chief-collection-and-intelligence-officer/
Eric Dezenhall is the founder and CEO of Dezenhall Resources -- a Washington, DC-based strategic communications firm and the author of several books on crisis management. His latest: Glass Jaw: A Manifesto for Defending Fragile Reputations in an Age of Instant Scandal (12 Books, October 2014), explores how once-powerful people, organizations and brands are easily brought down by seemingly powerless forces through the media and internet, which feed almost exclusively on destructive information. The book highlights new, often counter-intuitive strategies for fighting back.
Eric is on the faculty of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business where he teaches a course on crisis management and marketplace defense to MBA students. He has taught at the American Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education programs on subjects including securities fraud litigation and managing high-profile trials. He has also lectured at graduate and undergraduate programs at institutions including Georgetown, New York University, Dartmouth and the University of Maryland, in addition to the United States Army and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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EPISODE #58: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2015 ("Best Of": Original airdate: November 24, 2015)
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/12/30/fmr-cia-director-of-operations-jack-devine-on-terrorism-war-and-covert-action
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: The year the world turned upside down: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201512291300--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20151229-20151229-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Jack Devine is a founding partner and President of The Arkin Group LLC, which specializes in international crisis management, strategic intelligence, investigative research and business problem solving. He is a 32-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”). Mr. Devine served as both Acting Director and Associate Director of CIA’s operations outside the United States from 1993-1995, where he had supervisory authority over thousands of CIA employees involved in sensitive missions throughout the world. In addition, he served as Chief of the Latin American Division from 1992-1993 and was the principal manager of the CIA’s sensitive projects in Latin America.
Between 1990 and 1992, Mr. Devine headed the CIA’s Counternarcotics Center, which was responsible for coordinating and building close cooperation between all major U.S. and foreign law enforcement agencies in tracking worldwide narcotics and crime organizations. From 1985-1987, Mr. Devine headed the CIA’s Afghan Task Force, which successfully countered Soviet aggression in the region. In 1987, he was awarded the CIA’s Meritorious Officer Award for this accomplishment.
Mr. Devine’s international experience with the U.S. government included postings to Latin America and Europe. During his more than 30 years with the CIA, Mr. Devine was involved in organizing, planning and executing countless sensitive projects in virtually all areas of intelligence, including analysis, operations, technology and management.
He is the recipient of the Agency’s Distinguished Intelligence Medal and several meritorious awards. He is a recognized expert in Intelligence matters and has written Op-Ed articles for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Foreign Affair Magazine, The World Policy Journal and Politico. He has also made guest appearances on National Press Club, CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, CSPAN as well as the History and Discovery channels, PBS, NPR and ABC Radio.
Mr. Devine resides in New York City and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He speaks Spanish and Italian.
Mr. Devine’s book, “Good Hunting! A Spymaster’s Story” was published in June 2014. It focuses on his Agency career and the role of Covert Action in the past and the future.
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EPISODE #57: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/12/23/episode-57-nasas-stephanie-osborn-nancy-hartwell-on-human-trafficking
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Christmastime in Moscow with Vladimir Putin: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201512221130--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20151222-20151222-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Nancy Hartwell became fascinated – and horrified – by human trafficking when a German acquaintance disappeared and it later became known that she had been sold into a sultan’s harem. She began collecting stories, which showed definite patterns. “Harem Slave” is the first book in her Human Trafficking series, which takes a frank and disturbing look at how victims of this crime spend their lives.
Nancy grew up in Tampa, studied international relations in Washington, and married a distinguished attorney from Cameroon, where she lived for fourteen years. She has traveled to 44 countries and can get thoroughly into trouble in more than twenty languages. She published her first poem in a national magazine at age eight, has had radio plays produced on the BBC and ORTF (in French), and has published a number of articles on international trade. For seven years, she was a technical writer for a division of The Washington Post that tracked Congress, and for fourteen, was editor/lead proposal writer for a company specialized in international development. Website: www.nancyhartwell.com
Stephanie Osborn is a veteran of more than 20 years in the civilian space program, as well as various military space defense programs. She worked on numerous space shuttle flights and the International Space Station, and counts the training of astronauts on her resumé. Her space experience also includes Spacelab and ISS operations, variable star astrophysics, Martian aeolian geophysics, radiation physics, and nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons effects. She holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in four sciences: astronomy, physics, chemistry and mathematics, and she is "fluent" in several more, including geology and anatomy. She possesses a license of ministry, has been a duly sworn, certified police officer, and is a National Weather Service certified storm spotter. She has authored, co-authored, or contributed to more than 25 books, including the celebrated science-fiction mystery, Burnout: The mystery of Space Shuttle STS-281. She is the co-author of the Cresperian Saga book series, and currently writes the critically acclaimed Displaced Detective Series, described as "Sherlock Holmes meets The X-Files," and its prequel series, Gentleman Aegis. She released the paranormal/horror novella El Vengador, based on a true story, in 2013 as an ebook. Website: www.stephanie-osborn.com
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EPISODE #56: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/12/16/episode-56-jonestown-survivor-laura-johnston-kohl-lawyer-hans-von-spakovsky
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Trump breaking the rules of Washington's money game; http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201512151200--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20151215-20151215-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Hans A. von Spakovsky is an authority on a wide range of issues – including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, immigration, the rule of law and government reform -- as a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
Laura Johnston Kohl grew up as an activist in Washington, D.C., and watched as many of her heroes were assassinated in the 1960s. While she was in high school and college, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and others were killed. That had a huge impact on her. She attended college in Connecticut and continued her commitment to work for change and to make a difference. While exercising her civil rights to protest peacefully, she was tear-gassed while protesting the war in Viet Nam. After a brief marriage, a visit to Woodstock, and a stint working with the Black Panthers, she moved to California to join her sister.
Soon after that, she was introduced to Peoples Temple and spent the next nine years in California and Guyana. She was away from Jonestown on the day when 913 of her friends and family died. The next twenty years were spent recovering, and rebuilding her life. For the first ten years, she lived in Synanon, a residential community. The following ten years, with her husband and young son, she began rebuilding her life. She earned her BA in philosophy/psychology, and then earned her California Teaching Credential. Her book is JONESTOWN SURVIVOR: An Insider’s Look. Website: www.jonestownsurvivor.com
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EPISODE #55: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/12/09/episode-55-fmr-cia-financial-crime-yoseph-elkaim-psychologist-keith-campbell
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: The timing is right for a populist surge: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201512081600--tms--amvoicesctnav-dd20151208-20151208-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Yoseph Elkaim is a former Chief of Financial Crime Intelligence with the Central Intelligence Agency, serving from 2011 to 2013. He currently serves as the Global Principal of Risk and Compliance and Financial Crime with London’s HCL Axion.
W. Keith Campbell, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia, is the author of more than 100 scientific articles, chapters and the books, When You Love a Man Who Loves Himself: How to Deal with a One-way Relationship; The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement (with Jean Twenge); and the The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Findings, and Treatments (with Josh Miller). His work on narcissism has appeared in USA Today, Time, and The New York Times, and he has made numerous radio and television appearances, including The Today Show, NPR’s All Things Considered, and The Glenn Beck Show. He holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA from San Diego State University, and a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and did his postdoctoral work at Case Western Reserve University. www.wkeithcampbell.com
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EPISODE #54: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/12/02/episode-54-fmr-cia-station-chief-russian-expert-chinese-intel-expert
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Climate change conference sweeps terrorism problem under the rug: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201512011330--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20151201-20151201-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
Joshua Philipp is an award-winning investigative journalist at Epoch Times where he covers national security relating to China. He is an expert on China's role and approaches to espionage, theft of trade secrets, and strategies for unconventional warfare, including both human (HUMINT) and cyber (SIGINT) approaches. From 2008 to 2010, he conducted on-the-ground investigations into the Triads and uncovered their connections to the Chinese Communist Party. He has since uncovered several Chinese programs for spying on their citizens abroad, pressuring dissidents, influencing politics, and infiltrating Western companies. You can find his latest stories at http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/author/joshua-philipp/
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EPISODE #53: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/11/25/fmr-cia-director-of-operations-jack-devine-on-isis-paris-attacks-cover-action
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Terrorism has a way of spotlighting the real enemy: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201511241530--tms--amvoicesctnav-d20151124-20151124-column.html
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Jack Devine is a founding partner and President of The Arkin Group LLC, which specializes in international crisis management, strategic intelligence, investigative research and business problem solving. He is a 32-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”). Mr. Devine served as both Acting Director and Associate Director of CIA’s operations outside the United States from 1993-1995, where he had supervisory authority over thousands of CIA employees involved in sensitive missions throughout the world. In addition, he served as Chief of the Latin American Division from 1992-1993 and was the principal manager of the CIA’s sensitive projects in Latin America.
Between 1990 and 1992, Mr. Devine headed the CIA’s Counternarcotics Center, which was responsible for coordinating and building close cooperation between all major U.S. and foreign law enforcement agencies in tracking worldwide narcotics and crime organizations. From 1985-1987, Mr. Devine headed the CIA’s Afghan Task Force, which successfully countered Soviet aggression in the region. In 1987, he was awarded the CIA’s Meritorious Officer Award for this accomplishment.
Mr. Devine’s international experience with the U.S. government included postings to Latin America and Europe. During his more than 30 years with the CIA, Mr. Devine was involved in organizing, planning and executing countless sensitive projects in virtually all areas of intelligence, including analysis, operations, technology and management.
He is the recipient of the Agency’s Distinguished Intelligence Medal and several meritorious awards. He is a recognized expert in Intelligence matters and has written Op-Ed articles for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Foreign Affair Magazine, The World Policy Journal and Politico. He has also made guest appearances on National Press Club, CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, CSPAN as well as the History and Discovery channels, PBS, NPR and ABC Radio.
Mr. Devine resides in New York City and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He speaks Spanish and Italian.
Mr. Devine’s book, “Good Hunting! A Spymaster’s Story” was published in June 2014. It focuses on his Agency career and the role of Covert Action in the past and the future.
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EPISODE #52: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/11/18/episode-53-paris-terrorist-attacks-with-israeli-cia-intel-security-experts
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Paris terror should be the final wake-up call: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201511171230--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20151117-20151117-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Jonathan" is a manager of Condor Security Enterprises, an Israeli security consulting and training institution that specializes in advanced solutions for the law enforcement, security operatives and professional communities. Established in 1996, the staff is composed of operatives from the Israeli security establishment that have had vast field experience combined with management and instructional positions. www.condor-security.com
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
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EPISODE #51: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015 ("Best Of": Original airdate: September 8, 2015)
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/11/11/episode-51-legendary-washington-superlobbyist-jack-abramoff-casino-jack-fame
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Failure to protect U.S. special operations forces data is inexcusable: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201511101400--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20151110-20151110-column.html
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Jack Abramoff is arguably one of the world’s most famous lobbyists and former Washington power players. His rollercoaster life story might as well be a major motion picture. In fact, it is. Already two major motion pictures based on Abramoff’s story have hit the silver screen. Dubbed on the cover of Time Magazine as the “Man Who Bought Washington”, Abramoff rose to become the nation’s most successful and prominent lobbyist, before becoming enmeshed in the most harrowing political scandal since Watergate.
Having served 43 months in federal prison, Abramoff is out and ready to speak. Few know more than he about how Washington really works. Abramoff once labeled the dysfunctional and Byzantine system which has become our federal government as the “favor factory”. None can better show why this factory needs to be shuttered, so good government and democracy can prevail.
Born in Atlantic City, raised in Beverly Hills, California, Abramoff was graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in English Literature and Opera. At Brandeis, Abramoff commenced his political career, heading the state-wide College Republican group and was credited with delivering Massachusetts to Ronald Reagan in 1980, the first time since Eisenhower that a Republican would win the Bay State. Abramoff was soon elected as the national chairman of the College Republicans and built that organization into the largest student political organization in the free world.
His next position foreshadowed his rise to national prominence, as he was chosen to head President Reagan’s grassroots lobbying organization. In this role, Abramoff honed the lobbying skills he would later deploy to become the nation’s top legislative advocate. Under his leadership the organization moved major Reagan administration initiatives through the Congress and sponsored the world’s first convocation of anti-Soviet forces in the bush of Southern Africa.
As the Reagan era wound down, Abramoff moved from the world of politics to the world of cinema, becoming a motion picture producer – making action adventure films, including “Red Scorpion”. His international experience in structuring motion picture finance made him a popular lecturer at Georgetown University Law Center, where he had been graduated in 1986; but the siren call of politics drew Abramoff back to his roots, and in 1994, he joined the lobbying division of the law firm headed by Bill Gates’ father. Abramoff set to work and, within a few years, built one of the nation’s most prestigious and profitable lobbying practices. As Abramoff continued to build, his political base expanded and soon he found himself at the top of his profession.
When a corporation, Indian tribe, or foreign nation needed to win, they went to Team Abramoff, the eclectic hand-picked team of lobbying guns he assembled. Their clients rarely were defeated, and reaped billions of dollars of benefit.
Abramoff’s arsenal included his Signatures restaurant, one of the Capital’s finest, some of the best sports tickets in the nation, and an unlimited capacity to raise funds to fuel the political system which made his influence possible.
Abramoff had it all. And then it was gone. In an instant, his world collapsed and Abramoff fell into the abyss, eventually landing in federal prison, his name becoming synonymous with corruption and what’s wrong with our government.
The fall from grace changed Jack Abramoff and woke him up. And now, Abramoff is determined to do all he can to rectify the wrong he did and to identify and help end the corruption of the system he so well played. His orations will not only serve as a cautionary tale, but as an historic platform for reform of the system. Website: www.abramoff.com
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EPISODE #50: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/11/04/episode-50-a-new-cyberespionage-campaign-us-presidential-campaign-spin
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Petro-states aren't panicking over oil price crash: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201511031330--tms--amvoicesctnav-cc20151103-20151103-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Chris Coleman has served as the president, chief executive officer, and board member of LookingGlass since July 2013. Before joining LookingGlass, Chris was the Director of Cyber Security for U.S Public Sector at Cisco Systems. Prior to Cisco Chris held senior executive positions at ManTech International and was a partner at Integrated Data Systems, acquired by ManTech in 2003. Chris brings over 20 years of business experience in cyber security and the technology industry to his role as CEO of LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, Inc. https://lgscout.com/about-us/leadership/chris-coleman-chief-executive-officer/
Jason Lewis is an experienced network analyst that has worked in network security since 1996. He has led both private sector and government technology initiatives that have proven to be instrumental in advancing the cyber threat intelligence field. As Chief Collection and Intelligence Officer, Jason leads the analysis and research efforts at LookingGlass, which includes maintaining and expanding a global sensor network for tracking exploits and malicious hosts, exploring new technologies for improving current data analysis techniques, evaluating and obtaining new sources and types of data and investigating new threats to infrastructure and techniques used by malicious actors. He is responsible for maintaining a world-class research team and contributing to an industry-leading product set.
Prior to joining LookingGlass, Jason worked to support the intelligence community as a government employee with the Department of Defense. As a Global Network Exploitation and Vulnerability Analyst with U.S. Department of Defense, Jason used his experience as a network security engineer to analyze network data of interest and provide actionable reporting for Counter Terrorism and Target Analysts. This work included routing analysis, protocol decode and malware analysis as well as other tactics and techniques. https://lgscout.com/about-us/leadership/jason-lewis-chief-collection-and-intelligence-officer/
Eric Dezenhall is the founder and CEO of Dezenhall Resources -- a Washington, DC-based strategic communications firm and the author of several books on crisis management. His latest: Glass Jaw: A Manifesto for Defending Fragile Reputations in an Age of Instant Scandal (12 Books, October 2014), explores how once-powerful people, organizations and brands are easily brought down by seemingly powerless forces through the media and internet, which feed almost exclusively on destructive information. The book highlights new, often counter-intuitive strategies for fighting back.
Eric is on the faculty of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business where he teaches a course on crisis management and marketplace defense to MBA students. He has taught at the American Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education programs on subjects including securities fraud litigation and managing high-profile trials. He has also lectured at graduate and undergraduate programs at institutions including Georgetown, New York University, Dartmouth and the University of Maryland, in addition to the United States Army and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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EPISODE #49: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/10/27/episode-49-british-ambassador-charles-crawford-cia-expert-christopher-moran
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Trump is America's chance to fix a broken system: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201510271230--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20151027-20151027-column.html
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Christopher Moran is an Assistant Professor of US National Security in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Warwick University in the U.K. His new book is "Company Confessions: Revealing CIA Secrets".
His research on British and American secret services has been featured in the Guardian, Telegraph and the New Statesman, and has led to several collaborations with BBC Radio 4. In 2012, he was a historical consultant to the International Spy Museum in Washington DC, assisting on the popular exhibition ‘Exquisitely Evil: 50 Years of James Bond Villains’, sponsored by the makers of the Bond films
Charles Crawford retired from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office at the end of 2007 after nearly three decades in the UK’s Diplomatic Service, most of it spent serving in or dealing with communist and post-communist Europe
After he completed a law degree at Oxford University and was called to the English Bar, he spent two years at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Massachusetts
He joined the FCO in 1979. His first posting in 1981 was to communist post-Tito Yugoslavia. He returned to London in 1984 and after a year on the Aviation Desk was appointed FCO Speechwriter. He was posted to South Africa in 1987 as part of the Embassy team led by Ambassador Robin Renwick working to end apartheid
Returning to London in 1991 he worked in the FCO Department dealing with the Soviet Union as communist rule collapsed. He then spent three years in Moscow as Political Counsellor. He served three times as HM Ambassador: in Sarajevo (1996-1998); in Belgrade (2001-2003) and finally in Poland (2003-2007). In 1998 he was awarded the CMG for his work in post-conflict reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Charles Crawford has considerable senior operational experience in the diplomatic and policy aspects of the post-Cold War transition process in Russia/CIS and Poland as well as the complexities of the former Yugoslavia. He speaks to varying degrees Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, Polish, Russian, French and Afrikaans
He is now pursuing a private consultancy career from his home in Oxfordshire in England, focusing on personal communication technique and negotiation/mediation. He is a frequent contributor to the UK and international media on diplomatic and global policy issues. He is a founder partner of The Ambassador Partnership LLP and the author of the book, “Speechwriting for leaders: Speeches that leave people wanting more”:
Website: www.charlescrawford.biz
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EPISODE #48: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/10/20/episode-48israeli-securityintels-jonathan-propaganda-expert-mark-bourrie
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: A closer look at Canada's new prime minister: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201510201600--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20151020-20151020-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Jonathan" is a manager of Condor Security Enterprises, an Israeli security consulting and training institution that specializes in advanced solutions for the law enforcement, security operatives and professional communities. Established in 1996, the staff is composed of operatives from the Israeli security establishment that have had vast field experience combined with management and instructional positions. www.condor-security.com
Mark Bourrie holds a PhD in Canadian media and military history; he is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and has been a member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery since 1994. He has written hundreds of freelance pieces for most of the country's major magazines and newspapers, which have resulted in several awards and nominations.
Bourrie lectures on propaganda and censorship at the Department of National Defence School of Public Affairs; media history and propaganda at Carleton University; and Canadian studies at the University of Ottawa, where he is also working on a Juris Doctor degree.
His newest book, Kill The Messengers, "exposes how trends have conspired to simultaneously silence the Canadian media and elect an anti-intellectual government determined to conduct business in private."
He has also spoken out about how China uses journalists to spy inside foreign countries, having been approached himself.
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EPISODE #47: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/10/13/episode-47-whitey-bulger-confidant-kevin-weeks-victoria-krakovna-on-ai
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Is Obama's strategy fog of war, or just brain fog? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201510131330--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20151013-20151013-column.html
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Victoria Krakovna is a founder of the Future of Life Institute -- volunteer-run research and outreach organization working to mitigate existential risks facing humanity, including human-level artificial intelligence. Its leaders include Stephen Hawking, Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, and Tesla's Elon Musk. The institute focuses on potential risks from the development of human-level artificial intelligence. Victoria is a PhD student in statistics at Harvard University, interested in Bayesian methods and machine learning. In 2006, she was awarded the silver medal at the International Mathematics Olympiad, and in 2008 she was the highest ranking woman in the North American Putnam Mathematics Competition.
Kevin Weeks was top Lieutenant to James "Whitey" Bulger, head of the South Boston Irish Mob, who was on the run for more than 16 years before his capture on June 22, 2011. Events around Bulger's life are currently portrayed in the new movie, "Black Mass", starring Johnny Depp. While on the FBI Most Wanted list with a two million dollar reward, Bulger had been second only to Osama bin Laden in terms of priority. Week's new novel, HUNTED DOWN, is a story of murder, friendship and loyalty within the mob, using many situations that Weeks could have omitted from his NYT bestselling memoir, BRUTAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF MY LIFE INSIDE WHITEY BULGER'S IRISH MOB. While HUNTED DOWN is fiction, its insider knowledge makes it all the more intriguing, with hints toward where Whitey and his companion Catherine Greig may actually have spent those 16 years on the run.
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EPISODE #46: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2015 ("Best Of" - Original airdate: September 15, 2015)
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/10/06/episode-46-fmr-nato-exec-guy-roberts-cia-operations-officer-eric-burkhart
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Plagued by bad governance, Europe is losing its shirt: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201510061430--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20151006-20151006-column.html
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Guy Roberts has over thirty-five years of experience in public policy, foreign affairs, international organizations, bilateral and multilateral negotiations on strategic issues and international legal matters. He is currently a National Security Consultant and an Adjunct Professor at Mary Washington University and Virginia Commonwealth University. Until August 2011 he was the Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Weapons of Mass Destruction Policy and Director, Nuclear Policy Planning Directorate for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In that capacity he was responsible for developing policy on issues related to combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, missile defense, terrorism, and overseeing and implementing NATO’s nuclear deterrence policy and posture.
Roberts was a member of the Senior Executive Service serving as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and Principal Director for Negotiations Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense responsible for advising senior Defense Department officials on the entire range of United States arms control and non-proliferation policies and initiatives. He was also responsible for implementing policy guidance and Department of Defense positions for current and emerging proliferation issues in multilateral arms control and non-proliferation fora.
From 2000 to 2003, he served as the legal counsel for arms control and non-proliferation in the US Department of the Navy. In that capacity he was responsible for reviewing all naval programs to ensure compliance with U.S. international legal obligations including all arms control and nonproliferation agreements and developing policy on arms control and nonproliferation agreements or initiatives impacting Departmental equities.
Roberts also had a distinguished 25-year career in the US Marine Corps before retiring with the rank of Colonel, holding a wide range of assignments in policy formulation, operations and operations support, negotiations, management, litigation and serving as a policy/legal advisor both in the US and during overseas assignments. Positions and responsibilities included legal counsel to a four-star Combatant Commander, and military representative for disarmament and arms control issues to the United Nations, Conference on Disarmament and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Denver. He also holds masters’ degrees in international and comparative law from Georgetown University, in international relations from the University of Southern California, and in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College (graduated with highest distinction and won the Stephen B. Luce Award for academic achievement), and he received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science (Magna cum Laude) from Arizona State University. He is admitted to practice law in Colorado, California, Arizona and before the Military Court of Criminal Appeals and the US Supreme Court, and he is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and the International Law of War Society. Roberts has written extensively on nonproliferation, arms control, terrorism and law of war issues.
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
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EPISODE #45: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/09/29/episode-45-high-representative-of-kurdistan-to-the-usa-bayan-sami-abdul-rahman
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: General Assembly ignores the elephant in the room: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201509291330--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20150929-20150929-column.html
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Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman is the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Representative to the United States of an emerging democracy that saw its first free elections in 1992. The Kurdistan Regional Government seeks to build a federal, pluralistic, democratic and united Iraq.
Key to her role as Representative are strengthening ties between Kurdistan Region and the United States of America, advocating the government’s position on a wide array of political and economic matters and promoting coordination and partnership between the Kurdistan Region and the United States by encouraging inward investment which is important to the revival and stability of Kurdistan and Iraq as a whole. Prior to the appointment of KRG Representative to the US, Ms. Abdul Rahman was the High Representative to the United Kingdom.
Before her two political appointments as a Representative, Ms. Abdul Rahman worked as a journalist for 17 years. She began her career on local newspapers in London and won the Observer Newspaper’s Farzad Bazoft Memorial Prize in 1993, which led her to work at The Observer and later at the Financial Times. She worked for the FT in Britain and in Japan, where she was Tokyo Correspondent.
Her late father, Sami Abdul Rahman, was a veteran of the Kurdish movement, joining the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1963 and playing a critical role in the Kurdish and Iraqi opposition to Saddam Hussein’s regime. He held the post of Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government and General Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). Sami Abdul Rahman was killed alongside his elder son Salah and 96 others in a twin suicide bombing in 2004.
Ms. Abdul Rahman was born in Baghdad. Her family briefly lived in Iran in the mid-1970s before moving to Britain in 1976. She is a history graduate from London University.
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EPISODE #44: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/09/22/episode-44-fmr-cia-station-chief-scott-uehlinger-spy-author-andrew-lownie
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: After gaffes in the Middle East, the U.S. should step aside: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201509221530--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150922-20150922-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Andrew Lownie is the author of "Stalin's Englishman: The lives of Guy Burgess". He first became interested in the Cambridge Spy Ring when, as President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1984, he arranged an international seminar on the subject. After graduating from Cambridge University, where he won the Dunster Prize for History, Lownie went on to take a postgraduate degree in history at Edinburgh University. He is now a successful literary agent, and has written or edited seven books.
Guy Burgess was the most important, complex and fascinating of 'The Cambridge Spies' - Maclean, Philby, Blunt - all brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers.
In this first full biography, Andrew Lownie shows us how even Burgess's chaotic personal life of drunken philandering did nothing to stop his penetration and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service. Even when he was under suspicion, the fabled charm which had enabled many close personal relationships with influential Establishment figures (including Winston Churchill) prevented his exposure as a spy for many years.
Through interviews with more than a hundred people who knew Burgess personally, many of whom have never spoken about him before, and the discovery of hitherto secret files, Stalin's Englishman brilliantly unravels the many lives of Guy Burgess in all their intriguing, chilling, colourful, tragi-comic wonder.
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
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EPISODE #43: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/09/15/episode-43-fmr-nato-exec-guy-roberts-cia-operations-officer-eric-burkhart
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Protective laws have taken some wrong turns: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201509151500--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150915-20150915-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Guy Roberts has over thirty-five years of experience in public policy, foreign affairs, international organizations, bilateral and multilateral negotiations on strategic issues and international legal matters. He is currently a National Security Consultant and an Adjunct Professor at Mary Washington University and Virginia Commonwealth University. Until August 2011 he was the Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Weapons of Mass Destruction Policy and Director, Nuclear Policy Planning Directorate for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In that capacity he was responsible for developing policy on issues related to combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, missile defense, terrorism, and overseeing and implementing NATO’s nuclear deterrence policy and posture.
Roberts was a member of the Senior Executive Service serving as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and Principal Director for Negotiations Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense responsible for advising senior Defense Department officials on the entire range of United States arms control and non-proliferation policies and initiatives. He was also responsible for implementing policy guidance and Department of Defense positions for current and emerging proliferation issues in multilateral arms control and non-proliferation fora.
From 2000 to 2003, he served as the legal counsel for arms control and non-proliferation in the US Department of the Navy. In that capacity he was responsible for reviewing all naval programs to ensure compliance with U.S. international legal obligations including all arms control and nonproliferation agreements and developing policy on arms control and nonproliferation agreements or initiatives impacting Departmental equities.
Roberts also had a distinguished 25-year career in the US Marine Corps before retiring with the rank of Colonel, holding a wide range of assignments in policy formulation, operations and operations support, negotiations, management, litigation and serving as a policy/legal advisor both in the US and during overseas assignments. Positions and responsibilities included legal counsel to a four-star Combatant Commander, and military representative for disarmament and arms control issues to the United Nations, Conference on Disarmament and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Denver. He also holds masters’ degrees in international and comparative law from Georgetown University, in international relations from the University of Southern California, and in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College (graduated with highest distinction and won the Stephen B. Luce Award for academic achievement), and he received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science (Magna cum Laude) from Arizona State University. He is admitted to practice law in Colorado, California, Arizona and before the Military Court of Criminal Appeals and the US Supreme Court, and he is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and the International Law of War Society. Roberts has written extensively on nonproliferation, arms control, terrorism and law of war issues.
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
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EPISODE #42: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/09/08/episode-42-legendary-washington-superlobbyist-jack-abramoff-on-lobbying-us
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Western nations should approach Syrian refugee crisis with caution: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201509081430--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150908-20150908-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Jack Abramoff is arguably one of the world’s most famous lobbyists and former Washington power players. His rollercoaster life story might as well be a major motion picture. In fact, it is. Already two major motion pictures based on Abramoff’s story have hit the silver screen. Dubbed on the cover of Time Magazine as the “Man Who Bought Washington”, Abramoff rose to become the nation’s most successful and prominent lobbyist, before becoming enmeshed in the most harrowing political scandal since Watergate.
Having served 43 months in federal prison, Abramoff is out and ready to speak. Few know more than he about how Washington really works. Abramoff once labeled the dysfunctional and Byzantine system which has become our federal government as the “favor factory”. None can better show why this factory needs to be shuttered, so good government and democracy can prevail.
Born in Atlantic City, raised in Beverly Hills, California, Abramoff was graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in English Literature and Opera. At Brandeis, Abramoff commenced his political career, heading the state-wide College Republican group and was credited with delivering Massachusetts to Ronald Reagan in 1980, the first time since Eisenhower that a Republican would win the Bay State. Abramoff was soon elected as the national chairman of the College Republicans and built that organization into the largest student political organization in the free world.
His next position foreshadowed his rise to national prominence, as he was chosen to head President Reagan’s grassroots lobbying organization. In this role, Abramoff honed the lobbying skills he would later deploy to become the nation’s top legislative advocate. Under his leadership the organization moved major Reagan administration initiatives through the Congress and sponsored the world’s first convocation of anti-Soviet forces in the bush of Southern Africa.
As the Reagan era wound down, Abramoff moved from the world of politics to the world of cinema, becoming a motion picture producer – making action adventure films, including “Red Scorpion”. His international experience in structuring motion picture finance made him a popular lecturer at Georgetown University Law Center, where he had been graduated in 1986; but the siren call of politics drew Abramoff back to his roots, and in 1994, he joined the lobbying division of the law firm headed by Bill Gates’ father. Abramoff set to work and, within a few years, built one of the nation’s most prestigious and profitable lobbying practices. As Abramoff continued to build, his political base expanded and soon he found himself at the top of his profession.
When a corporation, Indian tribe, or foreign nation needed to win, they went to Team Abramoff, the eclectic hand-picked team of lobbying guns he assembled. Their clients rarely were defeated, and reaped billions of dollars of benefit.
Abramoff’s arsenal included his Signatures restaurant, one of the Capital’s finest, some of the best sports tickets in the nation, and an unlimited capacity to raise funds to fuel the political system which made his influence possible.
Abramoff had it all. And then it was gone. In an instant, his world collapsed and Abramoff fell into the abyss, eventually landing in federal prison, his name becoming synonymous with corruption and what’s wrong with our government.
The fall from grace changed Jack Abramoff and woke him up. And now, Abramoff is determined to do all he can to rectify the wrong he did and to identify and help end the corruption of the system he so well played. His orations will not only serve as a cautionary tale, but as an historic platform for reform of the system. Website: www.abramoff.com
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EPISODE #41: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2015 ("Best Of" Summer Series - Original airdate June 2, 2015 )
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/09/02/episode-41-lt-col-james-carafano-phd-was-author-john-steinbeck-a-cia-agent
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Clinton email dump is popcorn worthy: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201509011500--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20150901-20150901-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
James Carafano, a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges, is The Heritage Foundation’s Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies. In his Army career, he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He served in Europe, Korea and the United States. His assignments included head speechwriter for the Army Chief of Staff, the service's highest-ranking officer. Before retiring, he was executive editor of Joint Force Quarterly, the Defense Department's premiere professional military journal.
A graduate of West Point, he holds a master's degree and a doctorate from Georgetown University as well as a master's degree in strategy from the U.S. Army War College. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the Institute of World Politics and has served as a visiting professor at National Defense University. He previously served as an assistant professor at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., and as director of military studies at the Army's Center of Military History. He taught at Mount Saint Mary College in New York and was a fleet professor at the U.S. Naval War College. He has written several books, the latest being "Wiki at War: Conflict in a socially networked world".
Brian Kannard is the author of the book, "Steinbeck: Citizen Spy", which examines a previously unknown relationship between The Grapes of Wrath author, John Steinbeck, and the CIA. He left a management career in 2009 to finish his first book, Skullduggery: 45 True Tales of Disturbing the Dead, and in early 2010 opened the independent publishing house Grave Distractions Publications. Grave Distractions has published 70 books for 22 different authors; including works from Dead Sea Scrolls scholar Dr. Robert Eisenman and American History Professor Dr. James T. Baker of Western Kentucky University. Brian also does freelance writing and his articles have been featured in such places as: Armchair General Magazine, CNN, Coast to Coast AM, Yahoo News, and Unexplained Mysteries.
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EPISODE #40: TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2015 ("Best Of" Summer Series - Original airdate June 9, 2015 )
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/08/26/episode-40-cias-eric-burkhart-israeli-securityintelligence-expert
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Nonchalance does nothing to discourage terrorism: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201508251230--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150825-20150825-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Jonathan" is a manager of Condor Security Enterprises, an Israeli security consulting and training institution that specializes in advanced solutions for the law enforcement, security operatives and professional communities. Established in 1996, the staff is composed of operatives from the Israeli security establishment that have had vast field experience combined with management and instructional positions. www.condor-security.com
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
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EPISODE #39: TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 ("Best Of" Summer Series - Original airdate April 7, 2015)
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/08/19/episode-39-cia-station-chief-on-spy-tales-silicon-valley-veteran-on-hacking
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Iran wants a high-tech value meal, hold the fries: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201508181200--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150818-20150818-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
Philip Lieberman is President and CEO of Lieberman Software, as well as an outspoken and highly regarded technology expert who is quoted by national, business and trade press on cyber security. Lieberman has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Reuters, The Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, The Washington Post, USA Today and BBC News, as well as prestigious industry publications including Computerworld, CSO, Dark Reading, eWeek, IDG News, Informationweek and MIT Technology Review.
Lieberman is the chief blogger at Identity Week www.identityweek.com
A highly accomplished software engineer by training with over 30 years of experience, Lieberman is able to astutely perceive shortcomings in existing products on the market, and fill those gaps with innovative solutions. As president and founder of Lieberman Software, he developed the first products for the privileged password management and shared account password management space, and continues to introduce new solutions to resolve the security threat of common local account credentials.
Lieberman has published numerous books in the field of computer science, has taught at UCLA, and has been the author of many computer science courses. He has a B.A. from San Francisco State University (1981) in Physics with minors in Computer Science and Business.
Recent media coverage can be found at: http://www.liebsoft.com/In_The_News/
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EPISODE #38: TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2015 ("Best Of" Summer Series - Original airdate May 5, 2015)
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/08/12/episode-38-fmr-cia-director-of-operations-jack-devine
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Trump capitalizes on ludicrous debate: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201508111200--tms--amvoicesctnav-bb20150811-20150811-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Jack Devine is a founding partner and President of The Arkin Group LLC, which specializes in international crisis management, strategic intelligence, investigative research and business problem solving. He is a 32-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”). Mr. Devine served as both Acting Director and Associate Director of CIA’s operations outside the United States from 1993-1995, where he had supervisory authority over thousands of CIA employees involved in sensitive missions throughout the world. In addition, he served as Chief of the Latin American Division from 1992-1993 and was the principal manager of the CIA’s sensitive projects in Latin America.
Between 1990 and 1992, Mr. Devine headed the CIA’s Counternarcotics Center, which was responsible for coordinating and building close cooperation between all major U.S. and foreign law enforcement agencies in tracking worldwide narcotics and crime organizations. From 1985-1987, Mr. Devine headed the CIA’s Afghan Task Force, which successfully countered Soviet aggression in the region. In 1987, he was awarded the CIA’s Meritorious Officer Award for this accomplishment.
Mr. Devine’s international experience with the U.S. government included postings to Latin America and Europe. During his more than 30 years with the CIA, Mr. Devine was involved in organizing, planning and executing countless sensitive projects in virtually all areas of intelligence, including analysis, operations, technology and management.
He is the recipient of the Agency’s Distinguished Intelligence Medal and several meritorious awards. He is a recognized expert in Intelligence matters and has written Op-Ed articles for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Foreign Affair Magazine, The World Policy Journal and Politico. He has also made guest appearances on National Press Club, CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, CSPAN as well as the History and Discovery channels, PBS, NPR and ABC Radio.
Mr. Devine resides in New York City and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He speaks Spanish and Italian.
Mr. Devine’s book, “Good Hunting! A Spymaster’s Story” was published in June 2014. It focuses on his Agency career and the role of Covert Action in the past and the future.
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EPISODE #37: TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2015 ("Best Of" Summer Series - Original airdate May 12, 2015)
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/08/05/episode-37-clinton-cash-author-peter-schweitzer-and-chinese-spying-expert
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Obama's curious petro-diplomacy: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201508041430--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150804-20150804-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Peter Schweizer is the author of the new bestselling book, "Clinton Cash: The untold story of how and why foreign governments and businesses helped make Bill and Hillary rich", as well as "Extortion", "Throw Them All Out", "Architects of Ruin", and other books that have revealed political wrongdoing, and led to congressional resignations and new ethics laws. He is the founder and President of the Government Accountability Institute, a team of investigative researchers and journalists committed to investigating and exposing cronyism, misuse of taxpayer monies, and other governmental corruption or malfeasance. He is based in Tallahassee, Florida.
Joshua Philipp is an award-winning investigative journalist at Epoch Times where he covers national security relating to China. He is an expert on China's role and approaches to espionage, theft of trade secrets, and strategies for unconventional warfare, including both human (HUMINT) and cyber (SIGINT) approaches. From 2008 to 2010, he conducted on-the-ground investigations into the Triads and uncovered their connections to the Chinese Communist Party. He has since uncovered several Chinese programs for spying on their citizens abroad, pressuring dissidents, influencing politics, and infiltrating Western companies. You can find his latest stories at http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/author/joshua-philipp/
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EPISODE #36: TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/07/29/episode-36-lt-cdr-ret-james-sisco
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: 'President Trump' is an idea whose time has come: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201507281300--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20150728-20150728-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
James Sisco is a retired Lieutenant Commander, Reconnaissance Marine, and Naval Intelligence Officer with the U.S. Navy and the founder and President of ENODO Global. His career spans from leading Marine Reconnaissance missions in OPERATION DESERT STORM to supporting the U.S. Director of National Intelligence as an authority on Afghanistan. Career highlights include leading training missions in Africa while assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia and co-authoring the “Navy Counter-Terrorism Optimization Report” while assigned to the Navy’s premier strategic studies group “Deep Blue.” As a result, he was hand-selected to establish the U.S. Navy’s Irregular Warfare Office. Jim also coauthored “Left of Bang” with Lieutenant General Flynn, U.S. Army, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and is recognized within the intelligence community as a leader in socio-cultural analysis. In 2001, he led strike operations for U.S. Navy Carrier Air Wing One and in 2005 he served as the U.S. military liaison to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. He returned to Afghanistan in 2009 and was assigned to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s International Security Assistance Force’s Force-Reintegration Cell (ISAF-FRIC) where he led ISAF reintegration activities throughout the country. These experiences resulted in an assignment to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence where he managed Afghanistan intelligence and integration programs for the National Security Council.
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EPISODE #35: TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/07/22/episode-35-us-socom-advisor-mark-moyar-asia-times-pepe-escobar
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: A simple solution to the Islamic State problem: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201507211430--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20150721-20150721-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times/Hong Kong, an analyst for RT and TomDispatch, and a frequent contributor to websites and radio shows ranging from the US to East Asia. Born in Brazil, he's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, and has lived in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Even before 9/11 he specialized in covering the arc from the Middle East to Central and East Asia, with an emphasis on Big Power geopolitics and energy wars. He is the author of 'Globalistan' (Nimble Books, 2007); 'Red Zone Blues' (Nimble Books, 2007); 'Obama does Globalistan' (Nimble Books, 2009); and a contributing editor for a number of other books, including 'Crossroads of Leadership: Globalization and the New American Century in the Obama Presidency' (Routledge). His latest book, just published, is 'Empire of Chaos' (Nimble Books, 2014). When not on the road, he alternates between Sao Paulo, London and Hong Kong. Follow him on Facebook.
Mark Moyar, PhD, is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and a member of the Hoover Institution Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict. From 2004 to 2010, he served as a professor at the U.S. Marine Corps University, where he held the Kim T. Adamson Chair of Insurgency and Terrorism. He holds a BA from Harvard and a PhD from Cambridge. He has also taught at Texas A&M University, the Ohio State University, Cambridge University, and the Foreign Service Institute. He has served as a consultant to the senior leadership of the Special Operations Joint Task Force-Afghanistan, U.S. Central Command, U.S. Special Operations Command, the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, and the NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan. His new book is Strategic Failure: How President Obama’s Drone Warfare, Defense Cuts, and Military Amateurism Have Imperiled America (Threshold, June 2015)
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EPISODE #34: TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/07/14/episode-34-cia-ops-officer-eric-burkhart-dr-ed-tick-war-trauma-expert
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Iran deal must begin Western shift toward economic-security mindset: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201507141300--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150714-20150714-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
Edward Tick, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized transformational healer, psychotherapist, writer and educator. Co-Founder and Executive Director of Soldier’s Heart (www.soldiersheart.net), he has been working with veterans for over 38 years. Ed works internationally on the psychospiritual and cross-cultural healing of military and war trauma and on holistic and psycho-spiritual healing. He was the U.S. Army’s 2012 trainer in the holistic healing of PTSD, training over 2,500 chaplains and officers. He continues to work with the Army, Air Force and veterans everywhere. Ed is the author of five books including the groundbreaking and award-winning War and the Soul. His newest book, Warrior’s Return: Restoring the Soul After War, was just published.
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EPISODE #33: TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/07/07/episode-33-authorfmr-jag-officer-don-brown-hackertechnologist-ken-westin
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Profile of Homegrown Islamic State Terror Suspects Doesn't Fit Scare Campaigns: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201507071400--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150707-20150707-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Don Brown is a bestselling author and a former US Navy JAG Officer who served in the Pentagon, where he provided legal advice to the Secretary of the Navy and the Judge Advocate General of the Navy. He now pens legal and military thrillers about the Navy, and has developed an uncanny track record of prognosticating future events in his novels. Don is the author of 11 books. His first 9 books are suspense fiction action thrillers, the 11th – Don’t first work of non-fiction -- was released on May 29th and is a military expose entitled EXTORTION 17 (THE SHOOTDOWN OF SEAL TEAM 6). Don served on active duty for five years in the Navy as a JAG officer, during which time he served as military prosecutor, a Special Assistant United States Attorney, and also won the New York City Bar Association Trial Advocacy Award for winning the trial advocacy championship at the United States Naval Justice School. He remained on inactive reserve status with the Navy through 1999, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. Website: www.donbrownbooks.com
Ken Westin is a Senior Security Analyst at Tripwire Inc, with 15 years of experience building and breaking things through the use/misuse of technology. His technology exploits and endeavors have been featured in Forbes, Good Morning America, Dateline, New York Times, The Economist and has won awards from MIT, CTIA, Oregon Technology Awards, SXSW, Entrepreneur and named in Portland Business Journal's 2013 "40 Under 40". He has worked with law enforcement and journalists utilizing various technologies to unveil organized crime rings, recover stolen cars, even a car jacking amongst other crimes. Website: www.cybersecurity.io
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EPISODE #32: TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/06/30/episode-32-fmr-double-agent-naveed-jamali-cia-station-chief-scott-uehlinger
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Uber-chaos exposes the folly of French protectionism: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201506301330--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150630-20150630-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
Naveed Jamali: For three nerve-wracking years, Naveed Jamali spied on America for the Russians, trading thumb drives of sensitive technical data for envelopes of cash, selling out his own beloved country across noisy restaurant tables and in quiet parking lots. Or so the Russians believed. In fact, this young American civilian was a covert double agent working with the FBI. The Cold War wasn’t really over. It had just gone high-tech.
How to Catch a Russian Spy: The True Story of a Civilian Turned Double Agent is the one-of-a-kind story of how one young man’s post-college adventure became a real-life US counter-intelligence coup. He had no previous counter-espionage experience. Everything he knew about undercover work, he’d learned from Miami Vice and Magnum P.I. reruns and movies like Ronin, Spy Game, and anything with Bond or Bourne in the title. And yet, hoping to gain experience to become a Navy intelligence officer, he convinced the FBI and the Russians they could trust him. With charm, cunning, and a big load of naiveté, he matched wits with a veteran Russian military-intelligence officer who was recruiting spies on American soil, out-maneuvering the Russian spy and his secret-hungry superiors. Along the way, Jamali and his FBI handlers cast a rare light on espionage activities at the Russian Mission to the United Nations in New York and earned a solid US win in the escalating hostilities between Moscow and Washington.
Now, Jamali reveals the whole engaging story behind his double-agent adventure—from coded signals on Craigslist to the Russian spy’s propensity for Hooters’ Buffalo wings. Cinematic, news-breaking, and wildly entertaining, How to Catch a Russian Spy is an armchair spy fantasy brought to life. Film rights sold to Twentieth Century Fox for director Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man, 500 Days of Summer).
After his successful run as a civilian double agent, Naveed Jamali accepted a reserve commission in the US Navy. He has spent more than a decade in technology management at a senior level. He continues to advise and speak on matters of security, counter-intelligence, and understanding the motivation to spy. A life-long New Yorker, Naveed lives in New York City with his wife and two sons. He has no intention of travelling to Russia any time soon. www.naveedjamali.com
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EPISODE #31: TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/06/23/episode-31-military-intel-officer-cedric-leighton-cinema-symbolism
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: How Russia is using capitalism to win over Greece: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201506231330--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150623-20150623-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Robert W. Sullivan IV is a philosopher, historian, antiquarian, jurist, theologian, writer, and lawyer. His latest book is "Cinema Symbolism: A guide to esoteric imagery in popular movies". He holds a Juris Doctorate from Widener University School of Law in Delaware. Admitted to the State Bars of Maryland and the District of Columbia, he spent 7 years working at various law firms in the Baltimore area practicing primarily in the area of insurance defense. He is also a Freemason. Website: http://www.robertwsullivaniv.com
Cedric Leighton is the Founder & President of Cedric Leighton Associates, a strategic risk and leadership management consultancy. He honed his analytical and leadership skills during a 26-year career as an intelligence officer in the US Air Force. He witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall, oversaw critical Special Operations missions, established key partnerships with nations in South and Southeast Asia and deployed five times to the Middle East. He served at every command echelon from small deployed elements to the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, where he was the Deputy Director for Warfighter Support and Integration in the Intelligence Directorate. His last military assignment was as the National Security Agency’s Deputy Director for Training. His numerous military awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Bronze Star (for his work in Operation Iraqi Freedom), the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and seven Meritorious Service Medals. He retired as a Colonel in 2010.
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EPISODE #30: TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/06/16/episode-30
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: CIA report reveals alarming flaws in US intelligence: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201506161430--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150616-20150616-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
Joshua Philipp is an award-winning investigative journalist at Epoch Times where he covers national security relating to China. He is an expert on China's role and approaches to espionage, theft of trade secrets, and strategies for unconventional warfare, including both human (HUMINT) and cyber (SIGINT) approaches. From 2008 to 2010, he conducted on-the-ground investigations into the Triads and uncovered their connections to the Chinese Communist Party. He has since uncovered several Chinese programs for spying on their citizens abroad, pressuring dissidents, influencing politics, and infiltrating Western companies. You can find his latest stories at http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/author/joshua-philipp/
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EPISODE #29: TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/06/09/episode-29-cia-and-israeli-security-and-intelligence-experts
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Replace climate change scare tactics with free-market solution: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201506091230--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150609-20150609-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Jonathan" is a manager of Condor Security Enterprises, an Israeli security consulting and training institution that specializes in advanced solutions for the law enforcement, security operatives and professional communities. Established in 1996, the staff is composed of operatives from the Israeli security establishment that have had vast field experience combined with management and instructional positions. www.condor-security.com
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
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EPISODE #28: TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/06/02/episode-28
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Intelligence agencies need to knock off the fearmongering: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201506021330--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20150602-20150602-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
James Carafano, a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges, is The Heritage Foundation’s Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies. In his Army career, he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He served in Europe, Korea and the United States. His assignments included head speechwriter for the Army Chief of Staff, the service's highest-ranking officer. Before retiring, he was executive editor of Joint Force Quarterly, the Defense Department's premiere professional military journal.
A graduate of West Point, he holds a master's degree and a doctorate from Georgetown University as well as a master's degree in strategy from the U.S. Army War College. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the Institute of World Politics and has served as a visiting professor at National Defense University. He previously served as an assistant professor at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., and as director of military studies at the Army's Center of Military History. He taught at Mount Saint Mary College in New York and was a fleet professor at the U.S. Naval War College. He has written several books, the latest being "Wiki at War: Conflict in a socially networked world".
Brian Kannard is the author of the book, "Steinbeck: Citizen Spy", which examines a previously unknown relationship between The Grapes of Wrath author, John Steinbeck, and the CIA. He left a management career in 2009 to finish his first book, Skullduggery: 45 True Tales of Disturbing the Dead, and in early 2010 opened the independent publishing house Grave Distractions Publications. Grave Distractions has published 70 books for 22 different authors; including works from Dead Sea Scrolls scholar Dr. Robert Eisenman and American History Professor Dr. James T. Baker of Western Kentucky University. Brian also does freelance writing and his articles have been featured in such places as: Armchair General Magazine, CNN, Coast to Coast AM, Yahoo News, and Unexplained Mysteries.
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EPISODE #27: TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/05/26/episode-27
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: US-Iranian cooperation on Islamic State problem makes sense: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201505261400--tms--amvoicesctnav-cc20150526-20150526-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Pavel Sharikov is the head of the Center for Applied Research at the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He is the author of more than 30 research articles devoted to cybersecurity and international security issues. In 2008, he was a visiting scholar at George Washington University. In 2005, he was invited to join the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland. He graduated from the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Russian State University of the Humanities and defended his Ph.D. dissertation on “American cybersecurity policy".
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
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EPISODE #26: TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/05/19/episode-26-fmr-cia-analyst-lisa-curtis-washington-spin-expert-eric-dezenhall
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Fewer publicity stunts, more results needed against Islamic State: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201505191400--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150519-20150519-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Lisa Curtis is a former CIA analyst specializing in America's economic, security and political relationships with India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other nations of South Asia -- now, as a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Serving abroad in the Foreign Service, she was assigned to U.S. embassies in Pakistan and India. From 2001 to 2003, Curtis was the White House-appointed senior adviser to the assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs, tracking India-Pakistan relations.
She has testified before Congress on more than a dozen occasions in recent years on topics related to India, Pakistan, radical Islamists and America’s image abroad, and co-chaired the independent Pakistan Policy Working Group, recommending how the new administration should engage an unsteady Pakistan.
Before joining Heritage in August 2006, Lisa was a member of the professional staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for three years. She was in charge of South Asia issues for the chairman at the time, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.).
In 1996, she received the State Department’s Meritorious Honor Award for her role as embassy point person in a yearlong, four-nation endeavor to free hostages held by militants in Kashmir.
Eric Dezenhall is the founder and CEO of Dezenhall Resources -- a Washington, DC-based strategic communications firm and the author of several books on crisis management. His latest:
Eric is on the faculty of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business where he teaches a course on crisis management and marketplace defense to MBA students. He has taught at the American Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education programs on subjects including securities fraud litigation and managing high-profile trials. He has also lectured at graduate and undergraduate programs at institutions including Georgetown, New York University, Dartmouth and the University of Maryland, in addition to the United States Army and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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EPISODE #25: TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/05/12/episode-25-clinton-cash-author-peter-schweitzer-and-chinese-spying-expert
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Americans deserve a better return on diplomatic missions: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201505121300--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20150512-20150512-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Peter Schweizer is the author of the new bestselling book, "Clinton Cash: The untold story of how and why foreign governments and businesses helped make Bill and Hillary rich", as well as "Extortion", "Throw Them All Out", "Architects of Ruin", and other books that have revealed political wrongdoing, and led to congressional resignations and new ethics laws. He is the founder and President of the Government Accountability Institute, a team of investigative researchers and journalists committed to investigating and exposing cronyism, misuse of taxpayer monies, and other governmental corruption or malfeasance. He is based in Tallahassee, Florida.
Joshua Philipp is an award-winning investigative journalist at Epoch Times where he covers national security relating to China. He is an expert on China's role and approaches to espionage, theft of trade secrets, and strategies for unconventional warfare, including both human (HUMINT) and cyber (SIGINT) approaches. From 2008 to 2010, he conducted on-the-ground investigations into the Triads and uncovered their connections to the Chinese Communist Party. He has since uncovered several Chinese programs for spying on their citizens abroad, pressuring dissidents, influencing politics, and infiltrating Western companies. You can find his latest stories at http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/author/joshua-philipp/
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EPISODE #24: TUESDAY MAY 5, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/05/05/episode-24-fmr-cia-director-of-operations-jack-devine
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Lowering the bar puts American society at risk: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201505051330--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150505-20150505-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Jack Devine is a founding partner and President of The Arkin Group LLC, which specializes in international crisis management, strategic intelligence, investigative research and business problem solving. He is a 32-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”). Mr. Devine served as both Acting Director and Associate Director of CIA’s operations outside the United States from 1993-1995, where he had supervisory authority over thousands of CIA employees involved in sensitive missions throughout the world. In addition, he served as Chief of the Latin American Division from 1992-1993 and was the principal manager of the CIA’s sensitive projects in Latin America.
Between 1990 and 1992, Mr. Devine headed the CIA’s Counternarcotics Center, which was responsible for coordinating and building close cooperation between all major U.S. and foreign law enforcement agencies in tracking worldwide narcotics and crime organizations. From 1985-1987, Mr. Devine headed the CIA’s Afghan Task Force, which successfully countered Soviet aggression in the region. In 1987, he was awarded the CIA’s Meritorious Officer Award for this accomplishment.
Mr. Devine’s international experience with the U.S. government included postings to Latin America and Europe. During his more than 30 years with the CIA, Mr. Devine was involved in organizing, planning and executing countless sensitive projects in virtually all areas of intelligence, including analysis, operations, technology and management.
He is the recipient of the Agency’s Distinguished Intelligence Medal and several meritorious awards. He is a recognized expert in Intelligence matters and has written Op-Ed articles for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Foreign Affair Magazine, The World Policy Journal and Politico. He has also made guest appearances on National Press Club, CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, CSPAN as well as the History and Discovery channels, PBS, NPR and ABC Radio.
Mr. Devine resides in New York City and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He speaks Spanish and Italian.
Mr. Devine’s book, “Good Hunting! A Spymaster’s Story” was published in June 2014. It focuses on his Agency career and the role of Covert Action in the past and the future.
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EPISODE #23: TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/04/28/episode-23-fmr-cia-station-chief-top-international-internet-culture-expert
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: The Republic of Clintonstan's problematic matchmaking: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201504281400--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150428-20150428-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
Andrew Keen is one of the world’s best known and controversial commentators on the digital revolution. He is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and his current international hit The Internet Is Not The Answer which the London Sunday Times acclaimed as a "powerful, frightening read" and the Washington Post called "an enormously useful primer for those of us concerned that online life isn't as shiny as our digital avatars would like us to believe". He is executive director of the Silicon Valley innovation salon FutureCast, the host of the popular Internet chat show "Keen On", a Senior Fellow at CALinnovates,a columnist for CNN and a much acclaimed public speaker around the world. In 2015, he was named by GQ magazine in their list of the "100 Most Connected Men”.
Andrew has given keynote speeches in many countries around the world. At the United Nations Conference about the Internet in Rio, he debated Internet founder Vint Cerf and he has lectured at many universities including UC Berkeley, Vanderbilt, Stanford, MIT, Milan, Oxford, York, Warsaw and Amsterdam, where he gave the 21st Globalization Felix Meritis lecture. He has appeared at leading literary festivals such as Hay, Rio de Janeiro, Edinburgh and Los Angeles. He is a frequent speaker on the conference circuit at technology and business events like TED, DLD, Mobile World Congress, Wired, Techcrunch Disrupt,Names Not Numbers, Techonomy and the Drucker Forum. He is also an experienced public debater, working with events like Intelligence Squared and debating other luminaries such as Walter Isaacson and Nicholas Carr.
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EPISODE #22: TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/04/21/episode-22-experts-on-defence-cooperation-arctic-militaryeconomic-strategy
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: The FBI's identity crisis: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201504211400--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20150421-20150421-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Mika Mered is a consultant in political risks and economic perspective studies applied to the Arctic and Antarctic, and CEO at London-based POLARISK Analytics: the first political risk firm exclusively focused on the Arctic and Antarctic frontier markets.
Director of the Arctic/Antarctic Policy research program at the Paris-based Institute for European Perspective and Security (IPSE), Mikå has been academically trained at Columbia University, The New School (New York) and The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID, Geneva), and contributes to several research groups such as the French Arctic Initiative and the Arctic Energy Network, among others.
Visiting Arctic Speaker at the US Arctic Research Consortium (ARCUS), Mikå is a member of the American Polar Society (APS), the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), and the French Institute for Higher National Defence Studies’s Young Auditors Association (ANAJ-IHEDN).
Andrew Rasiulis is a Fellow with the Canadian Defense And Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI). He completed his undergraduate study in Political Science/History at the University of Toronto in 1978 and received his Master of Arts from the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, in Strategic Studies in 1979. In 1979 Mr. Rasiulis was appointed a commissioned officer in the Canadian Forces Primary Reserve (Governor General's Foot Guards).
He joined the Department of National Defence in 1979 as an analyst with the Directorate of Strategic Analysis, specializing in strategic politico-military issues pertaining to conventional forces. These issues included emerging concepts of conventional defence strategies for Western Europe, as well as the Canadian Government's efforts in the area of conventional arms control. In 1987, Mr. Rasiulis was promoted to Section Head, within the Directorate of Nuclear and Arms Control Policy, responsible for conventional arms control policy. He was also the Department of National Defence representative on NATO's High Level Task Force for conventional arms control from its inception in 1986 to 1989.
In June 1989 Mr. Rasiulis was posted as a Defence Advisor to the Canadian Delegation for Conventional Arms Control Talks in Vienna. Upon completion of his tour Mr. Rasiulis returned to National Defence Headquarters in April 1992 as Section Head responsible for policy on Central and Eastern Europe, including the Department's Military Training and Assistance Program (MTAP) with Central and Eastern Europe. In May 1996, Mr. Rasiulis was also assigned the responsibility of Programme Manager for the entire MTAP. He was subsequently designated as Director, Military Training Assistance Programme (and Eastern European Policy) in 1998.
Reflecting the growth of responsibility within the area of defence diplomacy, Mr. Rasiulis was re-designated Director Military Training and Cooperation in 2009. His responsibilities included the development of the policy for defence training cooperation with developing countries world wide, as well as overseeing its operational implementation.
Mr. Rasiulis' MA thesis, On the Utility of War in the Nuclear Age, developed a theory on limited conventional war. It was subsequently published as a Wellesley Paper in 1981 by the Canadian Institute for International Affairs and the Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies. He has also published numerous articles on conventional strategy, arms control and international military training cooperation.
Mr Rasiulis is retired from the Public Service and is now a freelance consultant with Andrew Rasiulis Associates Inc.
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EPISODE #21: TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/04/14/episode-21-deputy-director-of-the-national-geospatial-intelligence-agency
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: America can't afford another 'domestic' president: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201504141530--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150414-20150414-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Mike has 25 years of service with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and its predecessor organizations, the bulk of which focused on imagery analysis. His areas of expertise include North Korean ground forces, counter-terrorism, counter-narcotics, and persistent surveillance. Mike also served two tours each in both Iraq and Afghanistan in leadership capacities.
Dr Deane-Peter Baker is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Canberra, based at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He specializes in military ethics and also teaches and does research on topics including private military and security contractors, military strategy and counterinsurgency. Prior to taking up his current position Dr Baker taught in the Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law at the US Naval Academy. He has held Visiting Fellowships at institutions including the US Army War College and the Triangle Institute for Security Studes at Duke University. Dr. Baker served briefly in the British Army and later was a reserve officer in the South African Army, where he worked in strategy formulation and was part of the leader group of a reserve armoured car regiment, the Umvoti Mounted Rifles.
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EPISODE #20: TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/04/07/episode-20-cia-station-chief-on-spy-tales-silicon-valley-veteran-on-hacking
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: America is under threat from reactive foreign policy: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201504071600--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150407-20150407-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
Philip Lieberman is President and CEO of Lieberman Software, as well as an outspoken and highly regarded technology expert who is quoted by national, business and trade press on cyber security. Lieberman has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Reuters, The Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, The Washington Post, USA Today and BBC News, as well as prestigious industry publications including Computerworld, CSO, Dark Reading, eWeek, IDG News, Informationweek and MIT Technology Review.
Lieberman is the chief blogger at Identity Week www.identityweek.com
A highly accomplished software engineer by training with over 30 years of experience, Lieberman is able to astutely perceive shortcomings in existing products on the market, and fill those gaps with innovative solutions. As president and founder of Lieberman Software, he developed the first products for the privileged password management and shared account password management space, and continues to introduce new solutions to resolve the security threat of common local account credentials.
Lieberman has published numerous books in the field of computer science, has taught at UCLA, and has been the author of many computer science courses. He has a B.A. from San Francisco State University (1981) in Physics with minors in Computer Science and Business.
Recent media coverage can be found at: http://www.liebsoft.com/In_The_News/
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EPISODE #19: TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/03/31/episode-19-former-cia-station-chief-and-israeli-securityintel-expert
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: World powers resigned to accepting the inevitable with Iran: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201503311330--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150331-20150331-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Jonathan" is a manager of Condor Security Enterprises, an Israeli security consulting and training institution that specializes in advanced solutions for the law enforcement, security operatives and professional communities. Established in 1996, the staff is composed of operatives from the Israeli security establishment that have had vast field experience combined with management and instructional positions. www.condor-security.com
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
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EPISODE #18: TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/03/24/episode-18-israeli-securityintel-expert-on-how-to-react-to-realistic-threats
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Is America tough enough to deal with modern threats? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201503241400--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20150324-20150324-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Jonathan" is a manager of Condor Security Enterprises, an Israeli security consulting and training institution that specializes in advanced solutions for the law enforcement, security operatives and professional communities. Established in 1996, the staff is composed of operatives from the Israeli security establishment that have had vast field experience combined with management and instructional positions. www.condor-security.com
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
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EPISODE #17: TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/03/17/episode-17-fmr-uk-ambassador-on-russia-fmr-cia-officer-on-security-and-intel
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Lost art of listening is essential in geopolitics: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201503171700--tms--amvoicesctnav-d20150317-20150317-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Charles Crawford retired from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office at the end of 2007 after nearly three decades in the UK’s Diplomatic Service, most of it spent serving in or dealing with communist and post-communist Europe
After he completed a law degree at Oxford University and was called to the English Bar, he spent two years at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Massachusetts
He joined the FCO in 1979. His first posting in 1981 was to communist post-Tito Yugoslavia. He returned to London in 1984 and after a year on the Aviation Desk was appointed FCO Speechwriter. He was posted to South Africa in 1987 as part of the Embassy team led by Ambassador Robin Renwick working to end apartheid
Returning to London in 1991 he worked in the FCO Department dealing with the Soviet Union as communist rule collapsed. He then spent three years in Moscow as Political Counsellor. He served three times as HM Ambassador: in Sarajevo (1996-1998); in Belgrade (2001-2003) and finally in Poland (2003-2007). In 1998 he was awarded the CMG for his work in post-conflict reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Charles Crawford has considerable senior operational experience in the diplomatic and policy aspects of the post-Cold War transition process in Russia/CIS and Poland as well as the complexities of the former Yugoslavia. He speaks to varying degrees Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, Polish, Russian, French and Afrikaans
He is now pursuing a private consultancy career from his home in Oxfordshire in England, focusing on personal communication technique and negotiation/mediation. He is a frequent contributor to the UK and international media on diplomatic and global policy issues. He is a founder partner of The Ambassador Partnership LLP and the author of the book, “Speechwriting for leaders: Speeches that leave people wanting more”:
Website: www.charlescrawford.biz
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
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EPISODE #16: TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/03/10/episode-16-advice-from-us-and-israeli-security-and-intelligence-veterans
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Why the West is an inviting target for jihadist propaganda: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201503101500--tms--amvoicesctnav-cc20150310-20150310-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Jonathan" is a manager of Condor Security Enterprises, an Israeli security consulting and training institution that specializes in advanced solutions for the law enforcement, security operatives and professional communities. Established in 1996, the staff is composed of operatives from the Israeli security establishment that have had vast field experience combined with management and instructional positions. www.condor-security.com
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
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EPISODE #15: TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/03/04/episode-15-security-w-fmr-cia-officer-narcissism-with-expert-psychologist
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Nemtsov's Red Square murder a compelling mystery: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201503031630--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20150303-20150303-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
W. Keith Campbell, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia, is the author of more than 100 scientific articles, chapters and the books, When You Love a Man Who Loves Himself: How to Deal with a One-way Relationship; The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement (with Jean Twenge); and the The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Findings, and Treatments (with Josh Miller). His work on narcissism has appeared in USA Today, Time, and The New York Times, and he has made numerous radio and television appearances, including The Today Show, NPR’s All Things Considered, and The Glenn Beck Show. He holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA from San Diego State University, and a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and did his postdoctoral work at Case Western Reserve University. www.wkeithcampbell.com
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EPISODE #14: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/02/25/episode-14-security-vs-civil-liberties-w-fmr-cia-officer-and-eff-technologist
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Hollywood out of its political depth on Oscar night: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201502241400--tms--amvoicesctnav-cc20150224-20150224-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Cooper Quintin is a Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in San Francisco. He works on security and privacy research. He also maintains Privacy Badger, a browser add-on for blocking third-party trackers online. In his spare time he contributes to open source projects and teaches activists and journalists all over the world how to have better computer security.
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
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EPISODE #13: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/02/18/episode-13-china-military-and-defense-expert-former-cia-operations-officer
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: China's torrid Middle Eastern affair: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/sns-201502171700--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20150217-20150217-story.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Dean Cheng brings detailed knowledge of China's military and space capabilities to bear as The Heritage Foundation's research fellow on Chinese political and security affairs.
He specializes in China's military and foreign policy, in particular its relationship with the rest of Asia and with the United States.
Cheng has written extensively on China's military doctrine, technological implications of its space program and "dual use" issues associated with the communist nation's industrial and scientific infrastructure.
He previously worked for 13 years as a senior analyst, first with Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), the Fortune 500 specialist in defense and homeland security, and then with the China Studies division of the Center for Naval Analyses, the federally funded research institute.
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
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EPISODE #12: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/02/11/episode-12-canadian-terrorismradicalization-russian-military-experts
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: The downside of globalization and an interconnected world: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201502101530--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150210-20150210-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Michael Kofman is a Russia security and defense expert at the Wilson Center. He spent years managing professional military education programs and military to military engagements for senior officers at National Defense University. There, he served as a subject matter expert and adviser to military and government officials on issues in Russia/Eurasia. He has represented the Department of Defense in a number of track one and track two efforts with Russia and Pakistan, along with strategic dialogues and conferences with experts in the field. His prior experience includes working at the U.S. Institute of Peace, HSBC Bank, and The Diplomatic Courier. He has published and co-authored articles on security issues in Russia, Central Asia and Eurasia, along with numerous analyses for the US government. Mr.Kofman holds a M.A. in International Security from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University and a B.A. in Political Science from Northeastern University.
Michael Zekulin is a Lecturer at the University of Calgary. He received his degree from the University of Calgary in 2012 where his dissertation, A Growing Disconnect: Can the Contemporary Terrorism Literature Explain Domestic Homegrown Terrorism? investigated the 2004 Madrid attack, the 2005 London 7/7 attack and the 2006 Toronto plot which were some of the earliest examples of what we would today label homegrown terrorism. His research agenda and publications have focused predominantly on terrorism related topics, including radicalization, counter-radicalization, anti-terrorism legislation and security certificates, and infrastructure and event security (terrorism and the Olympic Games). Over the course of his research, he has started an Islamic-inspired homegrown terrorism (IIHGT) incident database which so far includes all incidents in Canada, Australia and the US (to mid 2013) with plans of including the UK and Europe. He has several projects, including a comparative examination of national counter-radicalization strategies and a project designed to investigate how open certain minority communities might be to the counter-narratives needed to combat radicalization.
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EPISODE #11: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/02/04/episode-11-ciamossad-joint-ops-new-canadian-terror-laws-new-us-warfare
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Intelligence agencies must be able to fight terrorism in secret: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201502031330--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150203-20150203-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Dakota Wood served America for two decades in the U.S. Marine Corps, is the Senior Research Fellow for Defense Programs at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC.
Wood’s research and writing focus on programs, capabilities, operational concepts, and strategies of the U.S. Department of Defense and military services to assess their utility in ensuring the United States has the ability to protect and promote its critical national security interests.
Wood grew up in Claremore, Oklahoma, and graduated in 1985 from the U.S. Naval Academy with a bachelor of science degree in oceanography. He was named a distinguished graduate for his work in earning a master’s degree in national security and strategic studies from the College of Naval Command and Staff, U.S. Naval War College. He was also recognized for meritorious distinction by the Marine Corps’ School of Advanced Warfighting.
In his service as a Marine, Dakota participated in the planning and execution of operations around the world to include Operation Enduring Freedom following the attacks of 9/11 and Operation Iraqi Freedom to depose Saddam Hussein. Dakota culminated his career conducting studies on military, technology, economic and political matters for senior officials at the highest levels of the Marine Corps and the Defense Department.
Wood retired from the U.S. Marine Corps as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2005, having enjoyed a 20-year career during which he served with a variety of operational units and in various high-level staff assignments. His operational experiences included a number of contingencies ranging from the evacuation of American citizens from countries in crisis to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
His professional and personal travel took him to over thirty countries on five continents and transit through most of the world’s oceans and seas, experiences that included multiple deployments to Asia and the Mediterranean region, NATO support operations in the Balkans, and contingency operations in W. Africa.
Then-Major Wood was a lead operational/logistics planner for U.S. Central Command during the initial operational response to the attacks of Sept 11, 2001, as well as numerous plans that included non-combatant evacuation operations and WMD counter-proliferation plans as well as logistics support for the bed-down of special operations forces in Central/Southwest Asia in the early phases of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Recruited by-name in late 2002, he was deployed to augment and lead operational analysis and logistics planning and execution efforts in support of Marine Corps combat forces for the invasion phase of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.
Mr. Wood also served as a strategic analyst for the Commandant of the Marine Corps and, later, while assigned to the Office of Net Assessment, the Secretary of Defense’s internal “think tank,” where he participated in a range of comparative analyses of military, technological, political, economic, and other factors governing the relative military capabilities of nations, with a specific focus on identifying emerging or potential threats and opportunities for the United States.
Following retirement in 2005, Mr. Wood helped to organize and operationalize the National Biosurveillance Integration System, a Department of Homeland Security effort intended to provide national leadership with the earliest indications of a potential biological threat to the United States.
From 2006 to 2011, Mr. Wood served as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments where he organized or materially contributed to numerous seminar-style wargames conducted for various Department of Defense sponsors as well as authoring papers on a diverse array of topics that included: conventional operations against a nuclear-armed adversary; US response options to the imminent failure of a large state; the operational challenges of a protracted global irregular warfare (IW) campaign; the many implications of the proliferation of advanced technologies and weapons; evolving security challenges within the Western Hemisphere; and the development of transformation strategies to improve the ability of the US military to protect the US and its interests.
Most recently, Mr. Wood served as the Strategist for the U.S. Marine Corps’ Special Operations Command. In this capacity, Mr. Wood was responsible for advising the Commander on strategic level guidance, policies, and operational concepts effecting the future employment of MARSOC forces, personally facilitated the development of a new concept for the integration of operational capabilities of special operations forces and forward-deployed conventional forces, and helped shape MARSOC’s understanding and explanation of the utility of Marine Corps special operations forces in support of national security interests.
Mr. Wood has been a frequent contributor to the news media, having been consulted on a wide range of national security and defense matters by a number of national and international outlets. He has also provided expert testimony to the U.S. Congress and has been consulted by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), Congressional Research Service (CRS), and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
"Ash" is a former Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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EPISODE #10: TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/01/21/episode-10-fmr-special-branchmi6-officer-fmr-cia-officer-on-terrorism
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: France needs no-nonsense approach to weeding out domestic terrorism: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201501201300--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150120-20150120-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Carlton King was a senior Scotland Yard Special Branch officer who spent his whole twenty-eight year career working in covert political policing, intelligence and security including extremism, terrorism and espionage. For several of those years Carlton was an SIS (MI6) Case Officer in that organisation’s counter terrorism section. In SIS CT Carlton worked world-wide against the UK’s enemies. After a year in the NPOIU, heading up that organisation’s Strategic Analysis Unit informing Police, Government, MOD and the Agencies of potential future threats to the nation, Carlton returned to MPSB.In MPSB Carlton ran a plethora of protection operations in the UK and throughout world especially in high threat low infrastructure environments and warzones. Forever traveling, Carlton has worked with most police, intelligence and security service agencies from throughout the world. Prior to joining the British services Carlton was an Exchange Detective for the US Department of Defence in West Germany after initially spending time as a German Haus Detektiv.
Carlton who lived in Germany for several years has a BSc in Criminology, speaks several languages and is married with children and grandchildren.
A Secret Life (1986 – 2012) Special Branch, MI6, NPOIU & Allied Matters - tells the story of Carlton King’s professional life within Britain’s Police Security and Intelligence services. From his birth in a northern mill town to a case officer in SIS and one of the country’s leading protection officers the book explores this secret and usually closed world.
We learn that Carlton was born into a large first generation immigrant working class family, where money was tight but love was abundant. We discover that as a relatively good student, and like his father a keen sportsman, Carlton had to consider whether to follow an academic or athletic path. However, life’s twists and turns finally cause Carlton to reject both paths and take him into the entertainment industry in West Germany where he lives for several years. The book covers Carlton’s move into law enforcement in Germany, first as a Haus Detektiv and then as a Detective with a branch of the US Military. It was after advice from his American boss in this agency, a long serving senior FBI agent that Carlton decided to leave West Germany and embark on a career in the Metropolitan Police hoping to join Special Branch (MPSB). Since 1884 MPSB had been Britain’s secret police, it dealt with all the political ‘crimes’ that came to Scotland Yard’s attention.
The book follows Carlton’s career through the highly competitive selection process into MPSB, its training regime and the close working relationship with MI5 (The Security Service) and other specialist, security and intelligence services in Britain, Europe and the world. Carlton’s operations against Communists, Irish, Middle Eastern, Right Wing and religiously inspired extremists and terrorists also shines a light onto the secret world of undercover and sustained operations against extremists, foreign spies and Intelligence officers.
Uniquely selected to MI6 as a Case Officer in SIS’ Counter Terrorism section, the book explains how Carlton undertook mission’s throughout the world on behalf of Queen and country. His subsequent close protection operations are also detailed showing how Carlton secured the lives of British and world leaders, including Prime Ministers, Presidents. Readers will be acquainted with Carlton’s interactions with some of Britain’s and world’s most powerful and famous people including the Princess of Wales, HRH Prince Charles and HRH the Queen of Nepal and many others.
In ‘A Secret Life..’ Carlton questions government inaction relating to the alleged conduct of some MPs in relation to historical child abuse cases and contrasts this with its actions against MPSB’s SDS. Throughout the book readers are provided with an insight into the dangers flowing from Carlton’s operations around the world especially those in warzones and high threat locations such as Pakistan or Gaza. Although the absolute luxury connected with some of Carlton’s missions are also showcased.
Sadly, the book also relates how the politics and racism of the Met affected Carlton in attempting to gain promotion and in introducing his various ground breaking concepts such as his creation of counter reconnaissance teams and the high threat low infrastructure operational teams. Both were concepts that changed how British authorities performed personal protection forever and placed Special Branch/SO1 amongst the very best exponents of VVIP personal protection in the world.
Contact: http://www.twitter.com/Carlton_King
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
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EPISODE #9: TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/01/14/episode-9-paris-terrorist-attacks-jesuischarlie-fmr-dgse-fbi-special-agent
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Terror attacks in France rooted in entitlement: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201501131300--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20150113-20150113-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Claude Moniquet has worked as a reporter in the French press, and also worked for the DGSE (French foreign intelligence service) for more than twenty years. He is author of several specialized books on terrorism and security. Mr. Moniquet is the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center's CEO and co-founder. He specializes in the conception and direction of operations of human intelligence, analysis of terrorism, security issues and geopolitics. He is a member of the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA) and of the International Counter-Terrorism Officers Association (ICTOA).
"Ash" is a former Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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EPISODE #8: TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/01/07/episode-8-cia-counterintelligence-officer-and-cia-operations-officer
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Obama's video-game interventionism is no help to Europe: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201501061400--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150106-20150106-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Chris Lynch is the author of "The CI Desk: FBI and CIA Counterintelligence As Seen From My Cubicle". He was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the younger brother of Tom and Jean. He graduated from Kalamazoo Central High School and Michigan State University, and joined the FBI in 1976, where his principal qualification was that he’d never been arrested. He worked in the Intelligence Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, and was granted a Master of Science degree in International Relations from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (Washington Program Center) in 1982. In 1985, he moved to the CIA, where most of his career was spent in the Directorate of Operations. www.thecidesk.com
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
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EPISODE #7: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2014
SHOW LINK: http://tobtr.com/7178797
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Sony leaks, CIA report highlight the 'Snowden Privacy Paradox'http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201412161330--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20141216-20141216-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Mark Bourrie holds a PhD in Canadian media and military history; he is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and has been a member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery since 1994. He has written hundreds of freelance pieces for most of the country's major magazines and newspapers, which have resulted in several awards and nominations.
Bourrie lectures on propaganda and censorship at the Department of National Defence School of Public Affairs; media history and propaganda at Carleton University; and Canadian studies at the University of Ottawa, where he is also working on a Juris Doctor degree.
His newest book, Kill The Messengers, "exposes how trends have conspired to simultaneously silence the Canadian media and elect an anti-intellectual government determined to conduct business in private."
He has also spoken out about how China uses journalists to spy inside foreign countries, having been approached himself.
"Ash" is a former Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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EPISODE #6: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2014
SHOW LINK: http://tobtr.com/7158309
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Is America headed for a Soviet-style collapse? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201412091400--tms--amvoicesctnav-cc20141209-20141209-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Naveed Jamali has a wide breadth of experience including 15 years in various management roles in technology and a decade of combined military and civilian intelligence experience. Most recently he has written about his operational involvement in succesfully thwarting Russian military intelligence collections efforts in the United States. His book "How to Catch a Russian Spy" (Simon & Schuster June 2015) has already sold in 10 countries and 20th Century Fox announced it acquired the film rights for Director Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2). www.naveedjamali.com
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
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EPISODE #5: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2014
LISTEN TO THE ARCHIVE OF THIS SHOW: http://tobtr.com/7139197
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Reforming the intelligence machine in an era of asymmetric warfare http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201412021630--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20141202-20141202-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times/Hong Kong, an analyst for RT and TomDispatch, and a frequent contributor to websites and radio shows ranging from the US to East Asia. Born in Brazil, he's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, and has lived in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Even before 9/11 he specialized in covering the arc from the Middle East to Central and East Asia, with an emphasis on Big Power geopolitics and energy wars. He is the author of 'Globalistan' (Nimble Books, 2007); 'Red Zone Blues' (Nimble Books, 2007); 'Obama does Globalistan' (Nimble Books, 2009); and a contributing editor for a number of other books, including 'Crossroads of Leadership: Globalization and the New American Century in the Obama Presidency' (Routledge). His latest book, just published, is 'Empire of Chaos' (Nimble Books, 2014). When not on the road, he alternates between Sao Paulo, London and Hong Kong. Follow him on Facebook.
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
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EPISODE #4: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2014
LISTEN TO THE ARCHIVE OF THIS SHOW: http://tobtr.com/7116611
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: What Obama Can Learn From Hagel -- And From 'Mockingjay' http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201411251200--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20141125-20141125-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
Philip Lieberman is President and CEO of Lieberman Software, as well as an outspoken and highly regarded technology expert who is quoted by national, business and trade press on cyber security. Lieberman has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Reuters, The Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, The Washington Post, USA Today and BBC News, as well as prestigious industry publications including Computerworld, CSO, Dark Reading, eWeek, IDG News, Informationweek and MIT Technology Review.
Lieberman is the chief blogger at Identity Week www.identityweek.com
A highly accomplished software engineer by training with over 30 years of experience, Lieberman is able to astutely perceive shortcomings in existing products on the market, and fill those gaps with innovative solutions. As president and founder of Lieberman Software, he developed the first products for the privileged password management and shared account password management space, and continues to introduce new solutions to resolve the security threat of common local account credentials.
Lieberman has published numerous books in the field of computer science, has taught at UCLA, and has been the author of many computer science courses. He has a B.A. from San Francisco State University (1981) in Physics with minors in Computer Science and Business.
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EPISODE #3: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2014
LISTEN TO THE ARCHIVE OF THIS SHOW: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2014/11/19/episode-3-secret-popculture-history-and-some-new-research-on-crowdfunding
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Will Obama Finish As a Statesman Or Politician? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201411181400--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20141118-20141118-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Dan Forrer is the Executive Producer of the critically-acclaimed documentary film, "SAMPLE THIS", which details the secret history of some of the most important pop-culture events of our time.
Dan grew up listening to Top 40 radio and quickly realized he wanted to be a part of the excitement. He got his first job at fifteen in a small radio station beginning what would become a lifetime career in media.
After over a decade in radio culminating in sales management Dan decided to get out of his suit and return to creative endeavors by producing television commercials and then television series. In 1992 he co-created the Canadian reality series “To Serve and Protect”. It became Canada’s longest running reality series.
In 1999 Forrer created the syndicated series, “Mounties: True Stories of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police”. The show aired in over one hundred and twenty US television markets including network affiliates in New York and Los Angeles.
In 2010 after being inspired by a New York Times article Forrer began directing his first feature film “Sample This”. The pop culture documentary was released to critical acclaim in 2013 under the Propinquity banner.
John Berlau is a Senior Fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and before joining CEI, Berlau was an award-winning financial and political journalist. He served as Washington correspondent for Investor's Business Daily and as a staff writer for Insight magazine, published by The Washington Times. In 2002, he received Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism from Washington's National Press Club. He was a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in 2003.
John's recent work involves published research on crowdfunding, and the impact of increased regulations on taxpayers' bottom line.
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EPISODE #2: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2014
LISTEN TO THE ARCHIVE OF THIS SHOW: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2014/11/12/unredacted-episode-2-mi6-special-branch-veteran-and-veteran-fbi-special-agent
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201411111530--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20141111-20141111-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Carlton King was a senior Scotland Yard Special Branch officer who spent his whole twenty-eight year career working in covert political policing, intelligence and security including extremism, terrorism and espionage. For several of those years Carlton was an SIS (MI6) Case Officer in that organisation’s counter terrorism section. In SIS CT Carlton worked world-wide against the UK’s enemies. After a year in the NPOIU, heading up that organisation’s Strategic Analysis Unit informing Police, Government, MOD and the Agencies of potential future threats to the nation, Carlton returned to MPSB.In MPSB Carlton ran a plethora of protection operations in the UK and throughout world especially in high threat low infrastructure environments and warzones. Forever traveling, Carlton has worked with most police, intelligence and security service agencies from throughout the world. Prior to joining the British services Carlton was an Exchange Detective for the US Department of Defence in West Germany after initially spending time as a German Haus Detektiv.
Carlton who lived in Germany for several years has a BSc in Criminology, speaks several languages and is married with children and grandchildren.
A Secret Life (1986 – 2012) Special Branch, MI6, NPOIU & Allied Matters - tells the story of Carlton King’s professional life within Britain’s Police Security and Intelligence services. From his birth in a northern mill town to a case officer in SIS and one of the country’s leading protection officers the book explores this secret and usually closed world.
We learn that Carlton was born into a large first generation immigrant working class family, where money was tight but love was abundant. We discover that as a relatively good student, and like his father a keen sportsman, Carlton had to consider whether to follow an academic or athletic path. However, life’s twists and turns finally cause Carlton to reject both paths and take him into the entertainment industry in West Germany where he lives for several years. The book covers Carlton’s move into law enforcement in Germany, first as a Haus Detektiv and then as a Detective with a branch of the US Military. It was after advice from his American boss in this agency, a long serving senior FBI agent that Carlton decided to leave West Germany and embark on a career in the Metropolitan Police hoping to join Special Branch (MPSB). Since 1884 MPSB had been Britain’s secret police, it dealt with all the political ‘crimes’ that came to Scotland Yard’s attention.
The book follows Carlton’s career through the highly competitive selection process into MPSB, its training regime and the close working relationship with MI5 (The Security Service) and other specialist, security and intelligence services in Britain, Europe and the world. Carlton’s operations against Communists, Irish, Middle Eastern, Right Wing and religiously inspired extremists and terrorists also shines a light onto the secret world of undercover and sustained operations against extremists, foreign spies and Intelligence officers.
Uniquely selected to MI6 as a Case Officer in SIS’ Counter Terrorism section, the book explains how Carlton undertook mission’s throughout the world on behalf of Queen and country. His subsequent close protection operations are also detailed showing how Carlton secured the lives of British and world leaders, including Prime Ministers, Presidents. Readers will be acquainted with Carlton’s interactions with some of Britain’s and world’s most powerful and famous people including the Princess of Wales, HRH Prince Charles and HRH the Queen of Nepal and many others.
In ‘A Secret Life..’ Carlton questions government inaction relating to the alleged conduct of some MPs in relation to historical child abuse cases and contrasts this with its actions against MPSB’s SDS. Throughout the book readers are provided with an insight into the dangers flowing from Carlton’s operations around the world especially those in warzones and high threat locations such as Pakistan or Gaza. Although the absolute luxury connected with some of Carlton’s missions are also showcased.
Sadly, the book also relates how the politics and racism of the Met affected Carlton in attempting to gain promotion and in introducing his various ground breaking concepts such as his creation of counter reconnaissance teams and the high threat low infrastructure operational teams. Both were concepts that changed how British authorities performed personal protection forever and placed Special Branch/SO1 amongst the very best exponents of VVIP personal protection in the world.
Contact: http://www.twitter.com/Carlton_King
"Ash" is a former Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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EPISODE #1: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2014:
LISTEN TO THE ARCHIVE OF THIS SHOW: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2014/11/05/unredacted-veteran-cia-officer-russianusa-double-agent-narcissism-expert
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201411041330--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20141104-20141104-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
W. Keith Campbell, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia, is the author of more than 100 scientific articles, chapters and the books, When You Love a Man Who Loves Himself: How to Deal with a One-way Relationship; The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement (with Jean Twenge); and the The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Findings, and Treatments (with Josh Miller). His work on narcissism has appeared in USA Today, Time, and The New York Times, and he has made numerous radio and television appearances, including The Today Show, NPR’s All Things Considered, and The Glenn Beck Show. He holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA from San Diego State University, and a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and did his postdoctoral work at Case Western Reserve University. www.wkeithcampbell.com
Naveed Jamali: For three nerve-wracking years, Naveed Jamali spied on America for the Russians, trading thumb drives of sensitive technical data for envelopes of cash, selling out his own beloved country across noisy restaurant tables and in quiet parking lots. Or so the Russians believed. In fact, this young American civilian was a covert double agent working with the FBI. The Cold War wasn’t really over. It had just gone high-tech.
How to Catch a Russian Spy is the one-of-a-kind story of how one young man’s post-college adventure became a real-life US counter-intelligence coup. He had no previous counter-espionage experience. Everything he knew about undercover work, he’d learned from Miami Vice and Magnum P.I. reruns and movies like Ronin, Spy Game, and anything with Bond or Bourne in the title. And yet, hoping to gain experience to become a Navy intelligence officer, he convinced the FBI and the Russians they could trust him. With charm, cunning, and a big load of naiveté, he matched wits with a veteran Russian military-intelligence officer who was recruiting spies on American soil, out-maneuvering the Russian spy and his secret-hungry superiors. Along the way, Jamali and his FBI handlers cast a rare light on espionage activities at the Russian Mission to the United Nations in New York and earned a solid US win in the escalating hostilities between Moscow and Washington.
Now, Jamali reveals the whole engaging story behind his double-agent adventure—from coded signals on Craigslist to the Russian spy’s propensity for Hooters’ Buffalo wings. Cinematic, news-breaking, and wildly entertaining, How to Catch a Russian Spy is an armchair spy fantasy brought to life. Film rights sold to Twentieth Century Fox for director Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man, 500 Days of Summer).
After his successful run as a civilian double agent, Naveed Jamali accepted a reserve commission in the US Navy. He has spent more than a decade in technology management at a senior level. He continues to advise and speak on matters of security, counter-intelligence, and understanding the motivation to spy. A life-long New Yorker, Naveed lives in New York City with his wife and two sons. He has no intention of travelling to Russia any time soon. www.naveedjamali.com
EPISODE #79: TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/05/31/episode-79-col-dr-peter-mansoor-ret-project-veritas-james-okeefe
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: What democracies can learn from Russia's cadet program: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201605311230--tms--amvoicesctnav-bb20160531-20160531-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Dr. Peter Mansoor, Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired), is the General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair of Military History at The Ohio State University. He assumed his academic position in September 2008 after a 26 year career in the U.S. Army that culminated in his service as the executive officer to General David Petraeus, the Commanding General of Multi-National Force-Iraq. A 1982 distinguished graduate of the United States Military Academy, Col. Mansoor commanded the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division from 2003–2005, including thirteen months of combat in Iraq. After relinquishing command, Col. Mansoor resided at the Council on Foreign Relations as a senior military fellow and served as the founding director of the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Dr. Mansoor is the author of The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941-1945, winner of the Society for Military History distinguished book award and the Army Historical Society distinguished book award in 2000; Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq, winner of the Ohioana Library Association nonfiction book of the year award in 2009; and Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War, a finalist for the inaugural 2014 Guggenheim-Lehrman Military History Prize.
James O’Keefe is an award-winning journalist and writer. He is the founder and President of both Project Veritas and Project Veritas Action, non-profit organizations dedicated to investigating corruption, dishonesty, waste and fraud in both public and private institutions.
James O’Keefe’s investigations have led directly to the passage of new legislation, federal and state investigations, congressional inquiries, the defunding of taxpayer-funded groups, resignations, firings, retrainings and disciplinary action.
O’Keefe’s series of voter fraud exposés inspired several states to reform their election laws, forced resignations in Washington, and pushed FBI and Department of Justice officials to defend themselves before federal lawmakers.
His investigation into ACORN led to the group’s collapse. He caused a Planned Parenthood Vice President to be fired, National Public Radio executives to be fired, an Enroll America director to be fired, Medicaid worker retrainings, an investigation into Battleground Texas, and Congressional field hearings into Obamacare navigator fraud.
The Nation magazine wrote, “O’Keefe’s influence on voting rights opponents and legislators alike is particularly jarring.” Slate.com agreed, “O’Keefe has had more of an impact on the 2012 election than any other journalist.”
In 2013, O’Keefe authored New York Times bestseller, Breakthrough: Our Guerilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy, the inside story of the challenges he faced bringing his powerful new form of guerilla reporting to the forefront.
In May of 2014, O’Keefe released videos at the Cannes Film Festival showing Hollywood environmentalists agreeing to take money from phony Middle Eastern oil tycoons to fund anti-fracking movies. The videos prompted a U.S. Senate investigation into the funding sources of NGOs.
During the summer of 2014, an investigation by Project Veritas transformed the discussion on national security. Dressed as Osama bin Laden, James O’Keefe crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into the United States. In a follow-up video, Project Veritas exposed the lack of security at the northern border as an investigator dressed as an ISIS terrorist crossed Lake Erie into Cleveland. In his grilling of officials from the Department of Homeland Security, Senator John McCain referenced the investigations as proof of the failure to secure the border.
Heading into the crucial fall elections of 2014, James O’Keefe launched Project Veritas Action, which launched investigations in four key Senate battleground states to expose the hypocrisy of candidates who were saying one thing to the voters and something entirely different to their close supporters. All four Senate candidates exposed by O’Keefe lost their races, some by incredibly narrow margins.
In 2015, O’Keefe oversaw the expansion of both Project Veritas and Project Veritas Action, providing the vision and direction for projects that increased the training, professionalism, and reach of both organizations. During the expansion, both organizations released impactful investigations. Most notably, Project Veritas conducted investigations of the Veterans Administration, political correctness on campus, and the corruption within the racial grievance industry. Project Veritas Action reported on multiple instances of the Hillary Clinton campaign violating state and federal campaign law.
O’Keefe is a graduate of Rutgers University. He founded an independent newspaper in College called The Centurion. He is a 2014 recipient of the Young Professional Conservative Leadership “Buckley Award” awarded to “young professionals in recognition of significant achievements in advancing the conservative cause.” He is the recipient of the Robert Novak Award for Journalistic Excellence (2011), has been named “Fox News Power Player of the Week” twice, and was on the Forbes “30 Under 30” for media moguls.
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EPISODE #78: TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/05/24/episode-78-behind-the-egypt-air-crash-and-new-international-trade-deals
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Time to shove the 'free love' generation out the door: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201605241330--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160524-20160524-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Frank Samolis is co-chair of the international trade trade practice group at the international law firm Squire Patton Boggs' Washington DC office. He advises clients on international trade matters, including trade law, trade policy and legislation, and international trade negotiations. He is also the leader of the firm’s Colombia/Chile Country Desk.
"Jonathan" is a manager of Condor Security Enterprises, an Israeli security consulting and training institution that specializes in advanced solutions for the law enforcement, security operatives and professional communities. Established in 1996, the staff is composed of operatives from the Israeli security establishment that have had vast field experience combined with management and instructional positions. www.condor-security.com
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EPISODE #77: TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/05/17/episode-77-cia-officers-fmr-eric-burkhart-and-scott-uehlinger-spy-films
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: New leak reveals the fun and follies of the NSA: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201605171530--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160517-20160517-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
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EPISODE #XX: TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2016
SHOW LINK:
This episode cancelled due to prohibitive technical issues with the broadcast platform, which should be resolved by next week. See you then!
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: "America First" is a battle cry for the oppressed middle class: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201605101200--tms--amvoicesctnav-cc20160510-20160510-column.html
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This episode cancelled due to prohibitive technical issues with the broadcast platform, which should be resolved by next week. See you then!
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EPISODE #76; TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/05/03/episode-76-ioannis-koskinas-gilbert-doctorow-on-the-latest-global-events
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Hillary's 'woman card' doesn't make a winning hand http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201605031200--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160503-20160503-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Ioannis “Gianni” Koskinas is the Senior Fellow, International Security Program, at the New America Foundation and the Chief Executive Officer for the Hoplite Group LLC, a risk consulting company that assists partners and clients identify, analyze, and mitigate political, integrity, and security risks. His team provides sustainable and innovative solutions to complex problems, in the most challenging environments and harshest conditions. His primary interests as a New American Foundation Senior Fellow are: entrepreneurial solutions to Security and Stability in Conflict Zones with emphasis on understanding the indigenous political power struggles that act as destabilizing agents. He is a regular contributor to Defense One and Foreign Policy’s South Asia Channel – a special project with FP, New America Foundation and Johns Hopkins SAIS.
In the private sector, Mr. Koskinas leads a team of risk mitigation strategists who gather, analyze, and offer bespoke reports to a variety of clients that include security and legal firms, oil/gas and mining companies, and aviation services partners. Hoplite Group stresses community engagement and responsible corporate social responsibility projects that benefit economies, provide social services at the lowest possible level and deliver community-based security arrangements. Additionally, Mr. Koskinas has advised the U.S. Department of Defense and senior Afghan, UAE, and European officials on security and strategic planning.
Prior to his retirement from the military, Colonel Koskinas served on active duty in the United States Air Force for 20 years. He finished his career as the principal advisor to the Honorable Mike Vickers, helping Mr. Vickers craft all policy directives relating to Afghanistan-Pakistan region and other select counter terrorism programs. Previously, he had served as senior advisor to the Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) General Stanley McChrystal in Afghanistan, where amongst his other duties supporting Gen McChrystal, Col Koskinas was the principal ghost author of Commander’s Weekly Assessment to Secretary of Defense and the NATO Secretary General.
Gilbert Doctorow is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on Russia and Eastern Europe.
For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. In the year 2000, he closed his corporate career as General Director in Russia and the CIS for the U.K. based multinational, Diageo.
From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. Since 2006, he has regularly published analytical articles about international affairs on the portal of the Belgian daily La Libre Belgique, as well as in the alternative media portal Consortium News in Washington, D.C. and traditional print media including The Nation.
He is the author of three books in the political science field including two collections of essays on Russian-American-European relations in the period 2008-15. In February 2015, he became a Founding Board Member and the European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord Ltd, an organization promoting round table public discussions of key issues in international security. For the past 35 years Doctorow has maintained a residence in Brussels, Belgium. He has participated in scholarly panels devoted to the future of the Kingdom of Belgium held at the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities in Columbia University.
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EPISODE #75: TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/04/26/episode-75-russian-expert-dmitry-zolotarev-real-estate-expert-jason-hartman
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Referendums on immigration are long overdue: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201604261500--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160426-20160426-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Dmitry Zolotarev is an independent Russian journalist specializing in international politics who has worked both as a TV And radio anchor, a deputy editor, and for major newspapers of Eastern Siberia.
Jason Hartman has been involved in several thousand real estate transactions and has owned income properties in 11 states and 17 cities. His company, Platinum Properties Investor Network, Inc. helps people achieve The American Dream of financial freedom by purchasing income property in prudent markets nationwide. Jason’s Complete Solution for Real Estate Investors™ is a comprehensive system providing real estate investors with education, research, resources and technology to deal with all areas of their income property investment needs.
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EPISODE #74: TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/04/19/episode-74-webb-hubbell-on-us-election-joshua-philipp-on-chinese-intel
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: America needs an economic-wartime president: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201604191230--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160419-20160419-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Webb Hubbell is a nationally recognized award winning author and popular lecturer on the U.S. criminal justice system, politics and government, writing a novel, and life lessons from sports. He also writes, speaks, and advocates publicly on social issues including theinhumanity of solitary confinement, racial bias in the criminal justice system, the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction, the marijuana legalization movement, and the miracle of organ transplants.
Webb has held executive positions in government and industry, including Associate Attorney General of the United States, Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Mayor of Little Rock, Ark., Managing Partner of the Rose Law Firm, and Executive and Chief Counsel for a large Washington-based commercial insurance company.
A prolific writer, Webb’s novel, When Men Betray (Beaufort Books, May 2014), is the first in a series of legal thrillers set in his hometown of Little Rock, Ark. It was recently recognized as one of Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Winners. His second novel,Ginger Snaps (Beaufort Books, May 2015) was released to rave reviews, as well. His third novel, A Game of Inches, will be released in May 2016 and may be preordered online, at your local bookstore, or by going to webbhubbell.com. The novels draw liberally from Webb’s own life, featuring recognizable personalities and locales from the Arkansas political scene while exploring personal themes of friendship, race relations, betrayal, and redemption.
Webb’s previously published book is Friends in High Places (William Morrow & Co., 1997). An autobiographical account of his rise at a young age through the Arkansas political system, it explores his personal successes and failures there and in Washington, D.C., as a member of President Bill Clinton’s administration.
On the forefront of current political and social thought, Webb comments on politics and related issues at Hubbell’s Telescope for The Clyde Fitch Report. He also writes a daily meditation at The Hubbell Pew, a personal blog he founded as a Lenten tradition in 2004.
Born in Little Rock in 1948, Webb earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1970 and a juris doctor degree with honors in 1973 from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He played football for Arkansas from 1965 to 1969. During his senior year, the Razorbacks were Southwest Conference co-champions and winners of the 1969 Sugar Bowl against undefeated University of Georgia.
Webb and his wife, Suzy, have four children and live in Charlotte, N.C.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/webbhubbellfanpage/?fref=ts
Twitter: @WebbHubbell
Website: http://webbhubbell.com/
Joshua Philipp is an award-winning investigative journalist at Epoch Times where he covers national security relating to China. He is an expert on China's role and approaches to espionage, theft of trade secrets, and strategies for unconventional warfare, including both human (HUMINT) and cyber (SIGINT) approaches. From 2008 to 2010, he conducted on-the-ground investigations into the Triads and uncovered their connections to the Chinese Communist Party. He has since uncovered several Chinese programs for spying on their citizens abroad, pressuring dissidents, influencing politics, and infiltrating Western companies. You can find his latest stories at http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/author/joshua-philipp/
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EPISODE #73: TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2016 ("Best Of": Original airdate: February 2, 2016)
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/04/12/episode-73-us-election-w-operative-roger-stone-policy-expert-timothy-lee
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Russia and America should unite against the Saudi-China alliance: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201604121430--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160412-20160412-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Roger Stone is a seasoned political operative and pundit. A veteran of eight presidential campaigns, he served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents before leaving the GOP for the Libertarian Party. He is the author of the bestsellers The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ and The Clintons’ War on Women. His newest book is Jeb! and the Bush crime family: The inside story of an American dynasty. For information on all his books, visit RogerStone.com.
Timothy Lee is Senior Vice President of legal and public affairs at the Center for Individual Freedom (www.cfif.org), a non-profit organization founded in 1998 with the mission to protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
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EPISODE #72: TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2016 ("Best Of": Original airdate: January 19, 2016)
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/04/05/episode-72-webb-hubbell-on-us-election-cia-ops-officer-eric-burkhart
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Offshore banking fuels the perversion of capitalism: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201604051400--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20160405-20160405-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Webb Hubbell is a nationally recognized award winning author and popular lecturer on the U.S. criminal justice system, politics and government, writing a novel, and life lessons from sports. He also writes, speaks, and advocates publicly on social issues including theinhumanity of solitary confinement, racial bias in the criminal justice system, the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction, the marijuana legalization movement, and the miracle of organ transplants.
Webb has held executive positions in government and industry, including Associate Attorney General of the United States, Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Mayor of Little Rock, Ark., Managing Partner of the Rose Law Firm, and Executive and Chief Counsel for a large Washington-based commercial insurance company.
A prolific writer, Webb’s novel, When Men Betray (Beaufort Books, May 2014), is the first in a series of legal thrillers set in his hometown of Little Rock, Ark. It was recently recognized as one of Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Winners. His second novel,Ginger Snaps (Beaufort Books, May 2015) was released to rave reviews, as well. His third novel, A Game of Inches, will be released in May 2016 and may be preordered online, at your local bookstore, or by going to webbhubbell.com. The novels draw liberally from Webb’s own life, featuring recognizable personalities and locales from the Arkansas political scene while exploring personal themes of friendship, race relations, betrayal, and redemption.
Webb’s previously published book is Friends in High Places (William Morrow & Co., 1997). An autobiographical account of his rise at a young age through the Arkansas political system, it explores his personal successes and failures there and in Washington, D.C., as a member of President Bill Clinton’s administration.
On the forefront of current political and social thought, Webb comments on politics and related issues at Hubbell’s Telescope for The Clyde Fitch Report. He also writes a daily meditation at The Hubbell Pew, a personal blog he founded as a Lenten tradition in 2004.
Born in Little Rock in 1948, Webb earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1970 and a juris doctor degree with honors in 1973 from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He played football for Arkansas from 1965 to 1969. During his senior year, the Razorbacks were Southwest Conference co-champions and winners of the 1969 Sugar Bowl against undefeated University of Georgia.
Webb and his wife, Suzy, have four children and live in Charlotte, N.C.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/webbhubbellfanpage/?fref=ts
Twitter: @WebbHubbell
Website: http://webbhubbell.com/
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
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EPISODE #71: TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/03/29/episode-71belgium-terror-aftermath-wg-doctorow-us-election-wjack-abramoff
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: The most dangerous form of tyranny is weakness: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201603291130--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160329-20160329-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Jack Abramoff is the host of "Our Nation" at ournation.tv, and arguably one of the world’s most famous lobbyists and former Washington power players. His rollercoaster life story might as well be a major motion picture. In fact, it is. Already two major motion pictures based on Abramoff’s story have hit the silver screen. Dubbed on the cover of Time Magazine as the “Man Who Bought Washington”, Abramoff rose to become the nation’s most successful and prominent lobbyist, before becoming enmeshed in the most harrowing political scandal since Watergate.
Having served 43 months in federal prison, Abramoff is out and ready to speak. Few know more than he about how Washington really works. Abramoff once labeled the dysfunctional and Byzantine system which has become our federal government as the “favor factory”. None can better show why this factory needs to be shuttered, so good government and democracy can prevail.
Born in Atlantic City, raised in Beverly Hills, California, Abramoff was graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in English Literature and Opera. At Brandeis, Abramoff commenced his political career, heading the state-wide College Republican group and was credited with delivering Massachusetts to Ronald Reagan in 1980, the first time since Eisenhower that a Republican would win the Bay State. Abramoff was soon elected as the national chairman of the College Republicans and built that organization into the largest student political organization in the free world.
His next position foreshadowed his rise to national prominence, as he was chosen to head President Reagan’s grassroots lobbying organization. In this role, Abramoff honed the lobbying skills he would later deploy to become the nation’s top legislative advocate. Under his leadership the organization moved major Reagan administration initiatives through the Congress and sponsored the world’s first convocation of anti-Soviet forces in the bush of Southern Africa.
As the Reagan era wound down, Abramoff moved from the world of politics to the world of cinema, becoming a motion picture producer – making action adventure films, including “Red Scorpion”. His international experience in structuring motion picture finance made him a popular lecturer at Georgetown University Law Center, where he had been graduated in 1986; but the siren call of politics drew Abramoff back to his roots, and in 1994, he joined the lobbying division of the law firm headed by Bill Gates’ father. Abramoff set to work and, within a few years, built one of the nation’s most prestigious and profitable lobbying practices. As Abramoff continued to build, his political base expanded and soon he found himself at the top of his profession.
When a corporation, Indian tribe, or foreign nation needed to win, they went to Team Abramoff, the eclectic hand-picked team of lobbying guns he assembled. Their clients rarely were defeated, and reaped billions of dollars of benefit.
Abramoff’s arsenal included his Signatures restaurant, one of the Capital’s finest, some of the best sports tickets in the nation, and an unlimited capacity to raise funds to fuel the political system which made his influence possible.
Abramoff had it all. And then it was gone. In an instant, his world collapsed and Abramoff fell into the abyss, eventually landing in federal prison, his name becoming synonymous with corruption and what’s wrong with our government.
The fall from grace changed Jack Abramoff and woke him up. And now, Abramoff is determined to do all he can to rectify the wrong he did and to identify and help end the corruption of the system he so well played. His orations will not only serve as a cautionary tale, but as an historic platform for reform of the system. Website: www.abramoff.com
Gilbert Doctorow is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on Russia and Eastern Europe.
For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. In the year 2000, he closed his corporate career as General Director in Russia and the CIS for the U.K. based multinational, Diageo.
From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. Since 2006, he has regularly published analytical articles about international affairs on the portal of the Belgian daily La Libre Belgique, as well as in the alternative media portal Consortium News in Washington, D.C. and traditional print media including The Nation.
He is the author of three books in the political science field including two collections of essays on Russian-American-European relations in the period 2008-15. In February 2015, he became a Founding Board Member and the European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord Ltd, an organization promoting round table public discussions of key issues in international security. For the past 35 years Doctorow has maintained a residence in Brussels, Belgium. He has participated in scholarly panels devoted to the future of the Kingdom of Belgium held at the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities in Columbia University.
See his recent analytical essay on the March 22, 2016 terrorist bombings in Brussels: http://usforeignpolicy.blogs.lalibre.be/archive/2016/03/27/belgian-political-culture-and-the-terror-attacks-in-brussels-1150356.html
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EPISODE #70: TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/03/22/episode-70-andrew-rasiulis-fmr-cdn-dod-bruce-klinger-on-dprk-prisoner
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Attacks in Belgium a symptom of government failure: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201603221430--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160322-20160322-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Andrew Rasiulis is a Fellow with the Canadian Defense And Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI). He completed his undergraduate study in Political Science/History at the University of Toronto in 1978 and received his Master of Arts from the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, in Strategic Studies in 1979. In 1979 Mr. Rasiulis was appointed a commissioned officer in the Canadian Forces Primary Reserve (Governor General's Foot Guards).
He joined the Department of National Defence in 1979 as an analyst with the Directorate of Strategic Analysis, specializing in strategic politico-military issues pertaining to conventional forces. These issues included emerging concepts of conventional defence strategies for Western Europe, as well as the Canadian Government's efforts in the area of conventional arms control. In 1987, Mr. Rasiulis was promoted to Section Head, within the Directorate of Nuclear and Arms Control Policy, responsible for conventional arms control policy. He was also the Department of National Defence representative on NATO's High Level Task Force for conventional arms control from its inception in 1986 to 1989.
In June 1989 Mr. Rasiulis was posted as a Defence Advisor to the Canadian Delegation for Conventional Arms Control Talks in Vienna. Upon completion of his tour Mr. Rasiulis returned to National Defence Headquarters in April 1992 as Section Head responsible for policy on Central and Eastern Europe, including the Department's Military Training and Assistance Program (MTAP) with Central and Eastern Europe. In May 1996, Mr. Rasiulis was also assigned the responsibility of Programme Manager for the entire MTAP. He was subsequently designated as Director, Military Training Assistance Programme (and Eastern European Policy) in 1998.
Reflecting the growth of responsibility within the area of defence diplomacy, Mr. Rasiulis was re-designated Director Military Training and Cooperation in 2009. His responsibilities included the development of the policy for defence training cooperation with developing countries world wide, as well as overseeing its operational implementation.
Mr. Rasiulis' MA thesis, On the Utility of War in the Nuclear Age, developed a theory on limited conventional war. It was subsequently published as a Wellesley Paper in 1981 by the Canadian Institute for International Affairs and the Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies. He has also published numerous articles on conventional strategy, arms control and international military training cooperation.
Mr Rasiulis is retired from the Public Service and is now a freelance consultant with Andrew Rasiulis Associates Inc.
Bruce Klingner specializes in Korean and Japanese affairs as the senior research fellow for Northeast Asia at The Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center.
Klingner’s analysis and writing about North Korea, South Korea and Japan, as well as related issues, are informed by his 20 years of service at the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Klingner, who joined Heritage in 2007, has testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
He is a frequent commentator in U.S. and foreign media. His articles and commentary have appeared in major American and foreign publications and he is a regular guest on broadcast and cable news outlets. He is a regular contributor to the international and security sections of The Daily Signal.
From 1996 to 2001, Klingner was CIA’s deputy division chief for Korea, responsible for the analysis of political, military, economic and leadership issues for the president of the United States and other senior U.S. policymakers. In 1993-1994, he was the chief of CIA's Korea branch, which analyzed military developments during a nuclear crisis with North Korea.
Klingner is a distinguished graduate of the National War College, where he received a master's degree in national security strategy in 2002. He also holds a master's degree in strategic intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College and a bachelor's degree in political science from Middlebury College in Vermont.
He is active in Korean martial arts, attaining third-degree black belt in taekwondo and first-degree black belt in hapkido and teuk kong moo sool.
Follow him on Twitter: @bruceklingner
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EPISODE #69: TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/03/15/episode-69-fmr-cia-officers-scott-uehlinger-eric-burkhart
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Establishment elites going all out to derail the Trump Express: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201603151130--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20160315-20160315-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
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EPISODE #68: TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/03/09/episode-68-cias-jason-hanson-on-evasion-mark-bourrie-on-isis-propaganda
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Greece besieged by crises, mystified by Trump: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201603081130--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160308-20160308-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Jason Hanson is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. Over the past several years, he has trained thousands of Americans in personal protection, concealed carry, pistol, rifle, shotgun, and escape & evasion courses. He is skilled in Personal Protection, Risk Assessment, Firearms, Security Operations, Private Investigations, Counter Terrorism, Vulnerability Assessment, Emergency Management. www.spyescapeandevasion.com
Dr. Mark Bourrie is quickly emerging as the country’s leading expert and author on propaganda and censorship. His newest book, out today, is The Killing Game: Martyrdom, Murder, and the Lure of ISIS. He is also an award-winning writer and a respected military historian with academic qualifications that give heft to his views. He holds a PhD in History, has been a consultant to the Canadian War Museum on propaganda and war coverage, and has written two very well received books on information control: The Fog of War: Censorship of Canada’s Media in World War Two and Kill the Messengers: Stephen Harper’s Assault on Your Right to Know.
A National Magazine Award-winning journalist, he has been a member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery since 1994. Bourrie lectures on propaganda and censorship at the Department of National Defence School of Public Affairs and periodically teaches courses on media history, censorship and propaganda at Carleton University and Canadian Studies at the University of Ottawa. He is also pursuing a law degree at the University of Ottawa.
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EPISODE #67: TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/03/02/episode-67-fmr-ussss-michael-mullen-fmr-green-beret-dr-patrick-christian
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Trump is succeeding where Occupy Wall Street failed: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201603011130--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20160301-20160301-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Michael Mullen is Vice President of Special Investigations with LookingGlass Cyber Solutions in Arlington, Virginia. He oversees products that include web and social media monitoring and in-depth analysis of online indications and warnings related to physical threats to employees, contractors and executives, as well as high-profile employees and celebrities. Prior to joining LookingGlass, he served 25 years as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service, with assignments including the Presidential Protective Division and Counter Assault Program.
Dr Patrick James Christian is an Adjunct Research Professor with the United States Special Operations Command’s Joint Special Operations University, tasked with documenting and analyzing the sociological breakdown and psychological devolvement of tribes/clans in violent conflict. His work is part of a research and development effort leading to evolving military and diplomatic approaches to security sector reform, internal defense & development and foreign internal defense. He was a US Army Green Beret officer with twenty-four years of experience in the practice and research of intra-state violence, civil war and tribal conflict. He has lead field teams conducting combat advisory missions, tribal engagement and counterinsurgency operations
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EPISODE #66: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/02/24/episode-66-tom-withington-on-defence-tech-phil-lieberman-on-apple-vs-the-fbi
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Has technology saved us from a dystopian future, or created one? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201602231300--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20160223-20160223-column.html
RACHEL MARSDEN'S NEW ARMADA INTERNATIONAL ARTICLE ON MILITARY CYBERWARFARE: http://www.rachelmarsden.com/cyberactive.pdf
GUEST LINEUP:
Philip Lieberman is President and CEO of Lieberman Software, as well as an outspoken and highly regarded technology expert who is quoted by national, business and trade press on cyber security. Lieberman has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Reuters, The Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, The Washington Post, USA Today and BBC News, as well as prestigious industry publications including Computerworld, CSO, Dark Reading, eWeek, IDG News, Informationweek and MIT Technology Review.
Lieberman is the chief blogger at Identity Week www.identityweek.com
A highly accomplished software engineer by training with over 30 years of experience, Lieberman is able to astutely perceive shortcomings in existing products on the market, and fill those gaps with innovative solutions. As president and founder of Lieberman Software, he developed the first products for the privileged password management and shared account password management space, and continues to introduce new solutions to resolve the security threat of common local account credentials.
Lieberman has published numerous books in the field of computer science, has taught at UCLA, and has been the author of many computer science courses. He has a B.A. from San Francisco State University (1981) in Physics with minors in Computer Science and Business.
Recent media coverage can be found at: http://www.liebsoft.com/In_The_News/
Thomas Withington is the Editor of Armada International and the Asian Military Review; two of the world's leading defense publications. He has almost twenty years experience in defense and military affairs, specializing in radar, electronic warfare and airpower. He is a published author, and a regular commentator on military issues around the world.
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EPISODE #65: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/02/17/episode-65-global-events-with-ltcdr-james-sisco-us-maj-chris-hunter-uk
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Candidates are peddling a laughable Syria narrative: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201602161500--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160216-20160216-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Major Chris Hunter QGM joined the British Army in 1989 as a sixteen-year-old army apprentice. He trained initially as a Russian linguist working in defence intelligence and after four years of enlisted service was selected to undergo officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He graduated at twenty-one, and was subsequently awarded the Carmen Sword of Honour. He was then commissioned into the Royal Logistic Corps (RLC)–the route that would eventually lead to his becoming an Ammunition Technical Officer (the British Army’s bomb disposal operators).
He served as a troop commander on operations in the Balkans, East Africa and Northern Ireland and undertook arctic warfare training in Norway, before becoming an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) operator. As an operator he deployed on two high-threat tours in Northern Ireland and one in Iraq, undertook EOD protection duties for the Royal Family and assisted in the planning and conduct of numerous police arrest operations involving the threat of explosive devices. He was also the designated technical Operations Officer for the national contingency response to the terrorist use of a weapon of mass destruction in the UK. He was later involved with a number of UK Special Forces counter terrorism units and saw active service in Afghanistan, Colombia and Iraq as well as on counter-terrorism operations in the UK.
For his actions in Iraq he was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal. He retired from the MoD in January 2007 as the MoD’s senior IED intelligence analyst and has since become a writer, broadcaster and the director of a counter-IED consultancy company. Hunter is also a Fellow of the Institute of Explosives Engineers, a Member of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators and a regular contributor to television, radio news and current affairs programs.
James Sisco is a retired Lieutenant Commander, Reconnaissance Marine, and Naval Intelligence Officer with the U.S. Navy and the founder and President of ENODO Global. His career spans from leading Marine Reconnaissance missions in OPERATION DESERT STORM to supporting the U.S. Director of National Intelligence as an authority on Afghanistan. Career highlights include leading training missions in Africa while assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia and co-authoring the “Navy Counter-Terrorism Optimization Report” while assigned to the Navy’s premier strategic studies group “Deep Blue.” As a result, he was hand-selected to establish the U.S. Navy’s Irregular Warfare Office. Jim also coauthored “Left of Bang” with Lieutenant General Flynn, U.S. Army, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and is recognized within the intelligence community as a leader in socio-cultural analysis. In 2001, he led strike operations for U.S. Navy Carrier Air Wing One and in 2005 he served as the U.S. military liaison to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. He returned to Afghanistan in 2009 and was assigned to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s International Security Assistance Force’s Force-Reintegration Cell (ISAF-FRIC) where he led ISAF reintegration activities throughout the country. These experiences resulted in an assignment to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence where he managed Afghanistan intelligence and integration programs for the National Security Council.
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EPISODE #64: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/02/10/episode-64-sam-katz-on-israeli-counterterrorism-crisis-expert-eric-dezenhall
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: U.S. presidential candidates offer action-movie solutions to foreign-policy problems: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201602091300--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160209-20160209-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Sam Katz is an internationally recognized expert and speaker on Middle East security issues, international terrorism, and military special operations, and has appeared on networks including BBC World News, Fox News, Al Jazeera, and CNN. He has written over twenty books on the Arab-Israeli conflict; is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi; and founded the Special Operations Report, a quarterly magazine dedicated to military and law enforcement operations and counterterrorism. His new book, THE GHOST WARRIORS: Inside Israel’s Undercover War Against Suicide Terrorism, offers a rare, compelling, inside look at Israel’s small and highly secretive Border Guard undercover unit called the Ya’mas—composed of Druze, Bedouins and Jews, who masquerade as indigenous Palestinians in order to infiltrate terrorist-controlled areas.
Eric Dezenhall is the founder and CEO of Dezenhall Resources -- a Washington, DC-based strategic communications firm and the author of several books on crisis management. His latest: Glass Jaw: A Manifesto for Defending Fragile Reputations in an Age of Instant Scandal (12 Books, October 2014), explores how once-powerful people, organizations and brands are easily brought down by seemingly powerless forces through the media and internet, which feed almost exclusively on destructive information. The book highlights new, often counter-intuitive strategies for fighting back.
Eric is on the faculty of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business where he teaches a course on crisis management and marketplace defense to MBA students. He has taught at the American Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education programs on subjects including securities fraud litigation and managing high-profile trials. He has also lectured at graduate and undergraduate programs at institutions including Georgetown, New York University, Dartmouth and the University of Maryland, in addition to the United States Army and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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EPISODE #63: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/02/03/episode-63-iowa-primaries-w-operative-roger-stone-policy-expert-timothy-lee
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Voters need to stop falling for smooth talkers http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201602021530--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20160202-20160202-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Roger Stone is a seasoned political operative and pundit. A veteran of eight presidential campaigns, he served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents before leaving the GOP for the Libertarian Party. He is the author of the bestsellers The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ and The Clintons’ War on Women. His newest book is Jeb! and the Bush crime family: The inside story of an American dynasty. For information on all his books, visit RogerStone.com.
Timothy Lee is Senior Vice President of legal and public affairs at the Center for Individual Freedom (www.cfif.org), a non-profit organization founded in 1998 with the mission to protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
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EPISODE #62: TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/01/27/episode-62-former-mi6-officer-nuclear-vulnerabilities
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Donald Trump has France talking: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201601261300--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160126-20160126-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Carlton King was a senior Scotland Yard Special Branch officer who spent his whole twenty-eight year career working in covert political policing, intelligence and security including extremism, terrorism and espionage. For several of those years Carlton was an SIS (MI6) Case Officer in that organisation’s counter terrorism section. In SIS CT Carlton worked world-wide against the UK’s enemies. After a year in the NPOIU, heading up that organisation’s Strategic Analysis Unit informing Police, Government, MOD and the Agencies of potential future threats to the nation, Carlton returned to MPSB.In MPSB Carlton ran a plethora of protection operations in the UK and throughout world especially in high threat low infrastructure environments and warzones. Forever traveling, Carlton has worked with most police, intelligence and security service agencies from throughout the world. Prior to joining the British services Carlton was an Exchange Detective for the US Department of Defence in West Germany after initially spending time as a German Haus Detektiv.
Tim Erlin is director of IT security and risk strategy at Tripwire and has over 10 years’ experience in addressing cybersecurity issues in organizations of all types. Tim is a member of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and frequently advises corporations and government agencies on cloud security management. His commentary has been featured regularly in publications such as Forbes, PC World and Next Gov; and he has been interviewed on CNN’s Situation Room and the PBS Newshour. His career in information technology began with project management, customer service, as well as systems and network administration. Erlin is actively involved in the information security community. His contributions include blogging, podcasts, press, speaking and television.
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EPISODE #61: TUESDAY, JANUARY 19 ,2016
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/01/20/episode-61-webb-hubbell-on-us-presidency-cia-ops-officer-eric-burkhart
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Lifting of Iranian sanctions prompts senseless worries: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201601191330--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20160119-20160119-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Webb Hubbell is a nationally recognized award winning author and popular lecturer on the U.S. criminal justice system, politics and government, writing a novel, and life lessons from sports. He also writes, speaks, and advocates publicly on social issues including theinhumanity of solitary confinement, racial bias in the criminal justice system, the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction, the marijuana legalization movement, and the miracle of organ transplants.
Webb has held executive positions in government and industry, including Associate Attorney General of the United States, Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Mayor of Little Rock, Ark., Managing Partner of the Rose Law Firm, and Executive and Chief Counsel for a large Washington-based commercial insurance company.
A prolific writer, Webb’s novel, When Men Betray (Beaufort Books, May 2014), is the first in a series of legal thrillers set in his hometown of Little Rock, Ark. It was recently recognized as one of Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Winners. His second novel,Ginger Snaps (Beaufort Books, May 2015) was released to rave reviews, as well. His third novel, A Game of Inches, will be released in May 2016 and may be preordered online, at your local bookstore, or by going to webbhubbell.com. The novels draw liberally from Webb’s own life, featuring recognizable personalities and locales from the Arkansas political scene while exploring personal themes of friendship, race relations, betrayal, and redemption.
Webb’s previously published book is Friends in High Places (William Morrow & Co., 1997). An autobiographical account of his rise at a young age through the Arkansas political system, it explores his personal successes and failures there and in Washington, D.C., as a member of President Bill Clinton’s administration.
On the forefront of current political and social thought, Webb comments on politics and related issues at Hubbell’s Telescope for The Clyde Fitch Report. He also writes a daily meditation at The Hubbell Pew, a personal blog he founded as a Lenten tradition in 2004.
Born in Little Rock in 1948, Webb earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1970 and a juris doctor degree with honors in 1973 from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He played football for Arkansas from 1965 to 1969. During his senior year, the Razorbacks were Southwest Conference co-champions and winners of the 1969 Sugar Bowl against undefeated University of Georgia.
Webb and his wife, Suzy, have four children and live in Charlotte, N.C.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/webbhubbellfanpage/?fref=ts
Twitter: @WebbHubbell
Website: http://webbhubbell.com/
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
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EPISODE #60: TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2016 ("Best Of": Original airdate: December 1, 2015)
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/01/13/episode-60-fmr-cia-station-chief-russian-expert-chinese-intel-expert
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Germany dealing with pains of failed integration http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201601121430--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20160112-20160112-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
Joshua Philipp is an award-winning investigative journalist at Epoch Times where he covers national security relating to China. He is an expert on China's role and approaches to espionage, theft of trade secrets, and strategies for unconventional warfare, including both human (HUMINT) and cyber (SIGINT) approaches. From 2008 to 2010, he conducted on-the-ground investigations into the Triads and uncovered their connections to the Chinese Communist Party. He has since uncovered several Chinese programs for spying on their citizens abroad, pressuring dissidents, influencing politics, and infiltrating Western companies. You can find his latest stories at http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/author/joshua-philipp/
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EPISODE #59: TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2016 ("Best Of": Original airdate: November 3, 2015)
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2016/01/06/episode-59-a-new-cyberespionage-campaign-us-presidential-campaign-spin
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Obama's executive actions to put taxpayers under the gun: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201601051400--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20160105-20160105-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Chris Coleman has served as the president, chief executive officer, and board member of LookingGlass since July 2013. Before joining LookingGlass, Chris was the Director of Cyber Security for U.S Public Sector at Cisco Systems. Prior to Cisco Chris held senior executive positions at ManTech International and was a partner at Integrated Data Systems, acquired by ManTech in 2003. Chris brings over 20 years of business experience in cyber security and the technology industry to his role as CEO of LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, Inc. https://lgscout.com/about-us/leadership/chris-coleman-chief-executive-officer/
Jason Lewis is an experienced network analyst that has worked in network security since 1996. He has led both private sector and government technology initiatives that have proven to be instrumental in advancing the cyber threat intelligence field. As Chief Collection and Intelligence Officer, Jason leads the analysis and research efforts at LookingGlass, which includes maintaining and expanding a global sensor network for tracking exploits and malicious hosts, exploring new technologies for improving current data analysis techniques, evaluating and obtaining new sources and types of data and investigating new threats to infrastructure and techniques used by malicious actors. He is responsible for maintaining a world-class research team and contributing to an industry-leading product set.
Prior to joining LookingGlass, Jason worked to support the intelligence community as a government employee with the Department of Defense. As a Global Network Exploitation and Vulnerability Analyst with U.S. Department of Defense, Jason used his experience as a network security engineer to analyze network data of interest and provide actionable reporting for Counter Terrorism and Target Analysts. This work included routing analysis, protocol decode and malware analysis as well as other tactics and techniques. https://lgscout.com/about-us/leadership/jason-lewis-chief-collection-and-intelligence-officer/
Eric Dezenhall is the founder and CEO of Dezenhall Resources -- a Washington, DC-based strategic communications firm and the author of several books on crisis management. His latest: Glass Jaw: A Manifesto for Defending Fragile Reputations in an Age of Instant Scandal (12 Books, October 2014), explores how once-powerful people, organizations and brands are easily brought down by seemingly powerless forces through the media and internet, which feed almost exclusively on destructive information. The book highlights new, often counter-intuitive strategies for fighting back.
Eric is on the faculty of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business where he teaches a course on crisis management and marketplace defense to MBA students. He has taught at the American Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education programs on subjects including securities fraud litigation and managing high-profile trials. He has also lectured at graduate and undergraduate programs at institutions including Georgetown, New York University, Dartmouth and the University of Maryland, in addition to the United States Army and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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EPISODE #58: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2015 ("Best Of": Original airdate: November 24, 2015)
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/12/30/fmr-cia-director-of-operations-jack-devine-on-terrorism-war-and-covert-action
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: The year the world turned upside down: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201512291300--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20151229-20151229-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Jack Devine is a founding partner and President of The Arkin Group LLC, which specializes in international crisis management, strategic intelligence, investigative research and business problem solving. He is a 32-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”). Mr. Devine served as both Acting Director and Associate Director of CIA’s operations outside the United States from 1993-1995, where he had supervisory authority over thousands of CIA employees involved in sensitive missions throughout the world. In addition, he served as Chief of the Latin American Division from 1992-1993 and was the principal manager of the CIA’s sensitive projects in Latin America.
Between 1990 and 1992, Mr. Devine headed the CIA’s Counternarcotics Center, which was responsible for coordinating and building close cooperation between all major U.S. and foreign law enforcement agencies in tracking worldwide narcotics and crime organizations. From 1985-1987, Mr. Devine headed the CIA’s Afghan Task Force, which successfully countered Soviet aggression in the region. In 1987, he was awarded the CIA’s Meritorious Officer Award for this accomplishment.
Mr. Devine’s international experience with the U.S. government included postings to Latin America and Europe. During his more than 30 years with the CIA, Mr. Devine was involved in organizing, planning and executing countless sensitive projects in virtually all areas of intelligence, including analysis, operations, technology and management.
He is the recipient of the Agency’s Distinguished Intelligence Medal and several meritorious awards. He is a recognized expert in Intelligence matters and has written Op-Ed articles for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Foreign Affair Magazine, The World Policy Journal and Politico. He has also made guest appearances on National Press Club, CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, CSPAN as well as the History and Discovery channels, PBS, NPR and ABC Radio.
Mr. Devine resides in New York City and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He speaks Spanish and Italian.
Mr. Devine’s book, “Good Hunting! A Spymaster’s Story” was published in June 2014. It focuses on his Agency career and the role of Covert Action in the past and the future.
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EPISODE #57: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/12/23/episode-57-nasas-stephanie-osborn-nancy-hartwell-on-human-trafficking
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Christmastime in Moscow with Vladimir Putin: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201512221130--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20151222-20151222-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Nancy Hartwell became fascinated – and horrified – by human trafficking when a German acquaintance disappeared and it later became known that she had been sold into a sultan’s harem. She began collecting stories, which showed definite patterns. “Harem Slave” is the first book in her Human Trafficking series, which takes a frank and disturbing look at how victims of this crime spend their lives.
Nancy grew up in Tampa, studied international relations in Washington, and married a distinguished attorney from Cameroon, where she lived for fourteen years. She has traveled to 44 countries and can get thoroughly into trouble in more than twenty languages. She published her first poem in a national magazine at age eight, has had radio plays produced on the BBC and ORTF (in French), and has published a number of articles on international trade. For seven years, she was a technical writer for a division of The Washington Post that tracked Congress, and for fourteen, was editor/lead proposal writer for a company specialized in international development. Website: www.nancyhartwell.com
Stephanie Osborn is a veteran of more than 20 years in the civilian space program, as well as various military space defense programs. She worked on numerous space shuttle flights and the International Space Station, and counts the training of astronauts on her resumé. Her space experience also includes Spacelab and ISS operations, variable star astrophysics, Martian aeolian geophysics, radiation physics, and nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons effects. She holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in four sciences: astronomy, physics, chemistry and mathematics, and she is "fluent" in several more, including geology and anatomy. She possesses a license of ministry, has been a duly sworn, certified police officer, and is a National Weather Service certified storm spotter. She has authored, co-authored, or contributed to more than 25 books, including the celebrated science-fiction mystery, Burnout: The mystery of Space Shuttle STS-281. She is the co-author of the Cresperian Saga book series, and currently writes the critically acclaimed Displaced Detective Series, described as "Sherlock Holmes meets The X-Files," and its prequel series, Gentleman Aegis. She released the paranormal/horror novella El Vengador, based on a true story, in 2013 as an ebook. Website: www.stephanie-osborn.com
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EPISODE #56: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/12/16/episode-56-jonestown-survivor-laura-johnston-kohl-lawyer-hans-von-spakovsky
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Trump breaking the rules of Washington's money game; http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201512151200--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20151215-20151215-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Hans A. von Spakovsky is an authority on a wide range of issues – including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, immigration, the rule of law and government reform -- as a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
Laura Johnston Kohl grew up as an activist in Washington, D.C., and watched as many of her heroes were assassinated in the 1960s. While she was in high school and college, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and others were killed. That had a huge impact on her. She attended college in Connecticut and continued her commitment to work for change and to make a difference. While exercising her civil rights to protest peacefully, she was tear-gassed while protesting the war in Viet Nam. After a brief marriage, a visit to Woodstock, and a stint working with the Black Panthers, she moved to California to join her sister.
Soon after that, she was introduced to Peoples Temple and spent the next nine years in California and Guyana. She was away from Jonestown on the day when 913 of her friends and family died. The next twenty years were spent recovering, and rebuilding her life. For the first ten years, she lived in Synanon, a residential community. The following ten years, with her husband and young son, she began rebuilding her life. She earned her BA in philosophy/psychology, and then earned her California Teaching Credential. Her book is JONESTOWN SURVIVOR: An Insider’s Look. Website: www.jonestownsurvivor.com
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EPISODE #55: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/12/09/episode-55-fmr-cia-financial-crime-yoseph-elkaim-psychologist-keith-campbell
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: The timing is right for a populist surge: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201512081600--tms--amvoicesctnav-dd20151208-20151208-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Yoseph Elkaim is a former Chief of Financial Crime Intelligence with the Central Intelligence Agency, serving from 2011 to 2013. He currently serves as the Global Principal of Risk and Compliance and Financial Crime with London’s HCL Axion.
W. Keith Campbell, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia, is the author of more than 100 scientific articles, chapters and the books, When You Love a Man Who Loves Himself: How to Deal with a One-way Relationship; The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement (with Jean Twenge); and the The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Findings, and Treatments (with Josh Miller). His work on narcissism has appeared in USA Today, Time, and The New York Times, and he has made numerous radio and television appearances, including The Today Show, NPR’s All Things Considered, and The Glenn Beck Show. He holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA from San Diego State University, and a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and did his postdoctoral work at Case Western Reserve University. www.wkeithcampbell.com
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EPISODE #54: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/12/02/episode-54-fmr-cia-station-chief-russian-expert-chinese-intel-expert
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Climate change conference sweeps terrorism problem under the rug: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201512011330--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20151201-20151201-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
Joshua Philipp is an award-winning investigative journalist at Epoch Times where he covers national security relating to China. He is an expert on China's role and approaches to espionage, theft of trade secrets, and strategies for unconventional warfare, including both human (HUMINT) and cyber (SIGINT) approaches. From 2008 to 2010, he conducted on-the-ground investigations into the Triads and uncovered their connections to the Chinese Communist Party. He has since uncovered several Chinese programs for spying on their citizens abroad, pressuring dissidents, influencing politics, and infiltrating Western companies. You can find his latest stories at http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/author/joshua-philipp/
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EPISODE #53: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/11/25/fmr-cia-director-of-operations-jack-devine-on-isis-paris-attacks-cover-action
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Terrorism has a way of spotlighting the real enemy: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201511241530--tms--amvoicesctnav-d20151124-20151124-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Jack Devine is a founding partner and President of The Arkin Group LLC, which specializes in international crisis management, strategic intelligence, investigative research and business problem solving. He is a 32-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”). Mr. Devine served as both Acting Director and Associate Director of CIA’s operations outside the United States from 1993-1995, where he had supervisory authority over thousands of CIA employees involved in sensitive missions throughout the world. In addition, he served as Chief of the Latin American Division from 1992-1993 and was the principal manager of the CIA’s sensitive projects in Latin America.
Between 1990 and 1992, Mr. Devine headed the CIA’s Counternarcotics Center, which was responsible for coordinating and building close cooperation between all major U.S. and foreign law enforcement agencies in tracking worldwide narcotics and crime organizations. From 1985-1987, Mr. Devine headed the CIA’s Afghan Task Force, which successfully countered Soviet aggression in the region. In 1987, he was awarded the CIA’s Meritorious Officer Award for this accomplishment.
Mr. Devine’s international experience with the U.S. government included postings to Latin America and Europe. During his more than 30 years with the CIA, Mr. Devine was involved in organizing, planning and executing countless sensitive projects in virtually all areas of intelligence, including analysis, operations, technology and management.
He is the recipient of the Agency’s Distinguished Intelligence Medal and several meritorious awards. He is a recognized expert in Intelligence matters and has written Op-Ed articles for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Foreign Affair Magazine, The World Policy Journal and Politico. He has also made guest appearances on National Press Club, CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, CSPAN as well as the History and Discovery channels, PBS, NPR and ABC Radio.
Mr. Devine resides in New York City and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He speaks Spanish and Italian.
Mr. Devine’s book, “Good Hunting! A Spymaster’s Story” was published in June 2014. It focuses on his Agency career and the role of Covert Action in the past and the future.
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EPISODE #52: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/11/18/episode-53-paris-terrorist-attacks-with-israeli-cia-intel-security-experts
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Paris terror should be the final wake-up call: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201511171230--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20151117-20151117-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Jonathan" is a manager of Condor Security Enterprises, an Israeli security consulting and training institution that specializes in advanced solutions for the law enforcement, security operatives and professional communities. Established in 1996, the staff is composed of operatives from the Israeli security establishment that have had vast field experience combined with management and instructional positions. www.condor-security.com
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
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EPISODE #51: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015 ("Best Of": Original airdate: September 8, 2015)
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/11/11/episode-51-legendary-washington-superlobbyist-jack-abramoff-casino-jack-fame
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Failure to protect U.S. special operations forces data is inexcusable: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201511101400--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20151110-20151110-column.html
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Jack Abramoff is arguably one of the world’s most famous lobbyists and former Washington power players. His rollercoaster life story might as well be a major motion picture. In fact, it is. Already two major motion pictures based on Abramoff’s story have hit the silver screen. Dubbed on the cover of Time Magazine as the “Man Who Bought Washington”, Abramoff rose to become the nation’s most successful and prominent lobbyist, before becoming enmeshed in the most harrowing political scandal since Watergate.
Having served 43 months in federal prison, Abramoff is out and ready to speak. Few know more than he about how Washington really works. Abramoff once labeled the dysfunctional and Byzantine system which has become our federal government as the “favor factory”. None can better show why this factory needs to be shuttered, so good government and democracy can prevail.
Born in Atlantic City, raised in Beverly Hills, California, Abramoff was graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in English Literature and Opera. At Brandeis, Abramoff commenced his political career, heading the state-wide College Republican group and was credited with delivering Massachusetts to Ronald Reagan in 1980, the first time since Eisenhower that a Republican would win the Bay State. Abramoff was soon elected as the national chairman of the College Republicans and built that organization into the largest student political organization in the free world.
His next position foreshadowed his rise to national prominence, as he was chosen to head President Reagan’s grassroots lobbying organization. In this role, Abramoff honed the lobbying skills he would later deploy to become the nation’s top legislative advocate. Under his leadership the organization moved major Reagan administration initiatives through the Congress and sponsored the world’s first convocation of anti-Soviet forces in the bush of Southern Africa.
As the Reagan era wound down, Abramoff moved from the world of politics to the world of cinema, becoming a motion picture producer – making action adventure films, including “Red Scorpion”. His international experience in structuring motion picture finance made him a popular lecturer at Georgetown University Law Center, where he had been graduated in 1986; but the siren call of politics drew Abramoff back to his roots, and in 1994, he joined the lobbying division of the law firm headed by Bill Gates’ father. Abramoff set to work and, within a few years, built one of the nation’s most prestigious and profitable lobbying practices. As Abramoff continued to build, his political base expanded and soon he found himself at the top of his profession.
When a corporation, Indian tribe, or foreign nation needed to win, they went to Team Abramoff, the eclectic hand-picked team of lobbying guns he assembled. Their clients rarely were defeated, and reaped billions of dollars of benefit.
Abramoff’s arsenal included his Signatures restaurant, one of the Capital’s finest, some of the best sports tickets in the nation, and an unlimited capacity to raise funds to fuel the political system which made his influence possible.
Abramoff had it all. And then it was gone. In an instant, his world collapsed and Abramoff fell into the abyss, eventually landing in federal prison, his name becoming synonymous with corruption and what’s wrong with our government.
The fall from grace changed Jack Abramoff and woke him up. And now, Abramoff is determined to do all he can to rectify the wrong he did and to identify and help end the corruption of the system he so well played. His orations will not only serve as a cautionary tale, but as an historic platform for reform of the system. Website: www.abramoff.com
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EPISODE #50: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/11/04/episode-50-a-new-cyberespionage-campaign-us-presidential-campaign-spin
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Petro-states aren't panicking over oil price crash: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201511031330--tms--amvoicesctnav-cc20151103-20151103-column.html
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Chris Coleman has served as the president, chief executive officer, and board member of LookingGlass since July 2013. Before joining LookingGlass, Chris was the Director of Cyber Security for U.S Public Sector at Cisco Systems. Prior to Cisco Chris held senior executive positions at ManTech International and was a partner at Integrated Data Systems, acquired by ManTech in 2003. Chris brings over 20 years of business experience in cyber security and the technology industry to his role as CEO of LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, Inc. https://lgscout.com/about-us/leadership/chris-coleman-chief-executive-officer/
Jason Lewis is an experienced network analyst that has worked in network security since 1996. He has led both private sector and government technology initiatives that have proven to be instrumental in advancing the cyber threat intelligence field. As Chief Collection and Intelligence Officer, Jason leads the analysis and research efforts at LookingGlass, which includes maintaining and expanding a global sensor network for tracking exploits and malicious hosts, exploring new technologies for improving current data analysis techniques, evaluating and obtaining new sources and types of data and investigating new threats to infrastructure and techniques used by malicious actors. He is responsible for maintaining a world-class research team and contributing to an industry-leading product set.
Prior to joining LookingGlass, Jason worked to support the intelligence community as a government employee with the Department of Defense. As a Global Network Exploitation and Vulnerability Analyst with U.S. Department of Defense, Jason used his experience as a network security engineer to analyze network data of interest and provide actionable reporting for Counter Terrorism and Target Analysts. This work included routing analysis, protocol decode and malware analysis as well as other tactics and techniques. https://lgscout.com/about-us/leadership/jason-lewis-chief-collection-and-intelligence-officer/
Eric Dezenhall is the founder and CEO of Dezenhall Resources -- a Washington, DC-based strategic communications firm and the author of several books on crisis management. His latest: Glass Jaw: A Manifesto for Defending Fragile Reputations in an Age of Instant Scandal (12 Books, October 2014), explores how once-powerful people, organizations and brands are easily brought down by seemingly powerless forces through the media and internet, which feed almost exclusively on destructive information. The book highlights new, often counter-intuitive strategies for fighting back.
Eric is on the faculty of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business where he teaches a course on crisis management and marketplace defense to MBA students. He has taught at the American Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education programs on subjects including securities fraud litigation and managing high-profile trials. He has also lectured at graduate and undergraduate programs at institutions including Georgetown, New York University, Dartmouth and the University of Maryland, in addition to the United States Army and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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EPISODE #49: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/10/27/episode-49-british-ambassador-charles-crawford-cia-expert-christopher-moran
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Trump is America's chance to fix a broken system: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201510271230--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20151027-20151027-column.html
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Christopher Moran is an Assistant Professor of US National Security in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Warwick University in the U.K. His new book is "Company Confessions: Revealing CIA Secrets".
His research on British and American secret services has been featured in the Guardian, Telegraph and the New Statesman, and has led to several collaborations with BBC Radio 4. In 2012, he was a historical consultant to the International Spy Museum in Washington DC, assisting on the popular exhibition ‘Exquisitely Evil: 50 Years of James Bond Villains’, sponsored by the makers of the Bond films
Charles Crawford retired from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office at the end of 2007 after nearly three decades in the UK’s Diplomatic Service, most of it spent serving in or dealing with communist and post-communist Europe
After he completed a law degree at Oxford University and was called to the English Bar, he spent two years at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Massachusetts
He joined the FCO in 1979. His first posting in 1981 was to communist post-Tito Yugoslavia. He returned to London in 1984 and after a year on the Aviation Desk was appointed FCO Speechwriter. He was posted to South Africa in 1987 as part of the Embassy team led by Ambassador Robin Renwick working to end apartheid
Returning to London in 1991 he worked in the FCO Department dealing with the Soviet Union as communist rule collapsed. He then spent three years in Moscow as Political Counsellor. He served three times as HM Ambassador: in Sarajevo (1996-1998); in Belgrade (2001-2003) and finally in Poland (2003-2007). In 1998 he was awarded the CMG for his work in post-conflict reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Charles Crawford has considerable senior operational experience in the diplomatic and policy aspects of the post-Cold War transition process in Russia/CIS and Poland as well as the complexities of the former Yugoslavia. He speaks to varying degrees Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, Polish, Russian, French and Afrikaans
He is now pursuing a private consultancy career from his home in Oxfordshire in England, focusing on personal communication technique and negotiation/mediation. He is a frequent contributor to the UK and international media on diplomatic and global policy issues. He is a founder partner of The Ambassador Partnership LLP and the author of the book, “Speechwriting for leaders: Speeches that leave people wanting more”:
Website: www.charlescrawford.biz
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EPISODE #48: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/10/20/episode-48israeli-securityintels-jonathan-propaganda-expert-mark-bourrie
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: A closer look at Canada's new prime minister: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201510201600--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20151020-20151020-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Jonathan" is a manager of Condor Security Enterprises, an Israeli security consulting and training institution that specializes in advanced solutions for the law enforcement, security operatives and professional communities. Established in 1996, the staff is composed of operatives from the Israeli security establishment that have had vast field experience combined with management and instructional positions. www.condor-security.com
Mark Bourrie holds a PhD in Canadian media and military history; he is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and has been a member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery since 1994. He has written hundreds of freelance pieces for most of the country's major magazines and newspapers, which have resulted in several awards and nominations.
Bourrie lectures on propaganda and censorship at the Department of National Defence School of Public Affairs; media history and propaganda at Carleton University; and Canadian studies at the University of Ottawa, where he is also working on a Juris Doctor degree.
His newest book, Kill The Messengers, "exposes how trends have conspired to simultaneously silence the Canadian media and elect an anti-intellectual government determined to conduct business in private."
He has also spoken out about how China uses journalists to spy inside foreign countries, having been approached himself.
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EPISODE #47: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/10/13/episode-47-whitey-bulger-confidant-kevin-weeks-victoria-krakovna-on-ai
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Is Obama's strategy fog of war, or just brain fog? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201510131330--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20151013-20151013-column.html
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Victoria Krakovna is a founder of the Future of Life Institute -- volunteer-run research and outreach organization working to mitigate existential risks facing humanity, including human-level artificial intelligence. Its leaders include Stephen Hawking, Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, and Tesla's Elon Musk. The institute focuses on potential risks from the development of human-level artificial intelligence. Victoria is a PhD student in statistics at Harvard University, interested in Bayesian methods and machine learning. In 2006, she was awarded the silver medal at the International Mathematics Olympiad, and in 2008 she was the highest ranking woman in the North American Putnam Mathematics Competition.
Kevin Weeks was top Lieutenant to James "Whitey" Bulger, head of the South Boston Irish Mob, who was on the run for more than 16 years before his capture on June 22, 2011. Events around Bulger's life are currently portrayed in the new movie, "Black Mass", starring Johnny Depp. While on the FBI Most Wanted list with a two million dollar reward, Bulger had been second only to Osama bin Laden in terms of priority. Week's new novel, HUNTED DOWN, is a story of murder, friendship and loyalty within the mob, using many situations that Weeks could have omitted from his NYT bestselling memoir, BRUTAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF MY LIFE INSIDE WHITEY BULGER'S IRISH MOB. While HUNTED DOWN is fiction, its insider knowledge makes it all the more intriguing, with hints toward where Whitey and his companion Catherine Greig may actually have spent those 16 years on the run.
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EPISODE #46: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2015 ("Best Of" - Original airdate: September 15, 2015)
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/10/06/episode-46-fmr-nato-exec-guy-roberts-cia-operations-officer-eric-burkhart
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Plagued by bad governance, Europe is losing its shirt: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201510061430--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20151006-20151006-column.html
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Guy Roberts has over thirty-five years of experience in public policy, foreign affairs, international organizations, bilateral and multilateral negotiations on strategic issues and international legal matters. He is currently a National Security Consultant and an Adjunct Professor at Mary Washington University and Virginia Commonwealth University. Until August 2011 he was the Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Weapons of Mass Destruction Policy and Director, Nuclear Policy Planning Directorate for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In that capacity he was responsible for developing policy on issues related to combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, missile defense, terrorism, and overseeing and implementing NATO’s nuclear deterrence policy and posture.
Roberts was a member of the Senior Executive Service serving as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and Principal Director for Negotiations Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense responsible for advising senior Defense Department officials on the entire range of United States arms control and non-proliferation policies and initiatives. He was also responsible for implementing policy guidance and Department of Defense positions for current and emerging proliferation issues in multilateral arms control and non-proliferation fora.
From 2000 to 2003, he served as the legal counsel for arms control and non-proliferation in the US Department of the Navy. In that capacity he was responsible for reviewing all naval programs to ensure compliance with U.S. international legal obligations including all arms control and nonproliferation agreements and developing policy on arms control and nonproliferation agreements or initiatives impacting Departmental equities.
Roberts also had a distinguished 25-year career in the US Marine Corps before retiring with the rank of Colonel, holding a wide range of assignments in policy formulation, operations and operations support, negotiations, management, litigation and serving as a policy/legal advisor both in the US and during overseas assignments. Positions and responsibilities included legal counsel to a four-star Combatant Commander, and military representative for disarmament and arms control issues to the United Nations, Conference on Disarmament and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Denver. He also holds masters’ degrees in international and comparative law from Georgetown University, in international relations from the University of Southern California, and in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College (graduated with highest distinction and won the Stephen B. Luce Award for academic achievement), and he received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science (Magna cum Laude) from Arizona State University. He is admitted to practice law in Colorado, California, Arizona and before the Military Court of Criminal Appeals and the US Supreme Court, and he is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and the International Law of War Society. Roberts has written extensively on nonproliferation, arms control, terrorism and law of war issues.
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
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EPISODE #45: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/09/29/episode-45-high-representative-of-kurdistan-to-the-usa-bayan-sami-abdul-rahman
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: General Assembly ignores the elephant in the room: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201509291330--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20150929-20150929-column.html
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Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman is the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Representative to the United States of an emerging democracy that saw its first free elections in 1992. The Kurdistan Regional Government seeks to build a federal, pluralistic, democratic and united Iraq.
Key to her role as Representative are strengthening ties between Kurdistan Region and the United States of America, advocating the government’s position on a wide array of political and economic matters and promoting coordination and partnership between the Kurdistan Region and the United States by encouraging inward investment which is important to the revival and stability of Kurdistan and Iraq as a whole. Prior to the appointment of KRG Representative to the US, Ms. Abdul Rahman was the High Representative to the United Kingdom.
Before her two political appointments as a Representative, Ms. Abdul Rahman worked as a journalist for 17 years. She began her career on local newspapers in London and won the Observer Newspaper’s Farzad Bazoft Memorial Prize in 1993, which led her to work at The Observer and later at the Financial Times. She worked for the FT in Britain and in Japan, where she was Tokyo Correspondent.
Her late father, Sami Abdul Rahman, was a veteran of the Kurdish movement, joining the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1963 and playing a critical role in the Kurdish and Iraqi opposition to Saddam Hussein’s regime. He held the post of Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government and General Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). Sami Abdul Rahman was killed alongside his elder son Salah and 96 others in a twin suicide bombing in 2004.
Ms. Abdul Rahman was born in Baghdad. Her family briefly lived in Iran in the mid-1970s before moving to Britain in 1976. She is a history graduate from London University.
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EPISODE #44: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/09/22/episode-44-fmr-cia-station-chief-scott-uehlinger-spy-author-andrew-lownie
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: After gaffes in the Middle East, the U.S. should step aside: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201509221530--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150922-20150922-column.html
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Andrew Lownie is the author of "Stalin's Englishman: The lives of Guy Burgess". He first became interested in the Cambridge Spy Ring when, as President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1984, he arranged an international seminar on the subject. After graduating from Cambridge University, where he won the Dunster Prize for History, Lownie went on to take a postgraduate degree in history at Edinburgh University. He is now a successful literary agent, and has written or edited seven books.
Guy Burgess was the most important, complex and fascinating of 'The Cambridge Spies' - Maclean, Philby, Blunt - all brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers.
In this first full biography, Andrew Lownie shows us how even Burgess's chaotic personal life of drunken philandering did nothing to stop his penetration and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service. Even when he was under suspicion, the fabled charm which had enabled many close personal relationships with influential Establishment figures (including Winston Churchill) prevented his exposure as a spy for many years.
Through interviews with more than a hundred people who knew Burgess personally, many of whom have never spoken about him before, and the discovery of hitherto secret files, Stalin's Englishman brilliantly unravels the many lives of Guy Burgess in all their intriguing, chilling, colourful, tragi-comic wonder.
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
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EPISODE #43: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/09/15/episode-43-fmr-nato-exec-guy-roberts-cia-operations-officer-eric-burkhart
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Protective laws have taken some wrong turns: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201509151500--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150915-20150915-column.html
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Guy Roberts has over thirty-five years of experience in public policy, foreign affairs, international organizations, bilateral and multilateral negotiations on strategic issues and international legal matters. He is currently a National Security Consultant and an Adjunct Professor at Mary Washington University and Virginia Commonwealth University. Until August 2011 he was the Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Weapons of Mass Destruction Policy and Director, Nuclear Policy Planning Directorate for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In that capacity he was responsible for developing policy on issues related to combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, missile defense, terrorism, and overseeing and implementing NATO’s nuclear deterrence policy and posture.
Roberts was a member of the Senior Executive Service serving as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and Principal Director for Negotiations Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense responsible for advising senior Defense Department officials on the entire range of United States arms control and non-proliferation policies and initiatives. He was also responsible for implementing policy guidance and Department of Defense positions for current and emerging proliferation issues in multilateral arms control and non-proliferation fora.
From 2000 to 2003, he served as the legal counsel for arms control and non-proliferation in the US Department of the Navy. In that capacity he was responsible for reviewing all naval programs to ensure compliance with U.S. international legal obligations including all arms control and nonproliferation agreements and developing policy on arms control and nonproliferation agreements or initiatives impacting Departmental equities.
Roberts also had a distinguished 25-year career in the US Marine Corps before retiring with the rank of Colonel, holding a wide range of assignments in policy formulation, operations and operations support, negotiations, management, litigation and serving as a policy/legal advisor both in the US and during overseas assignments. Positions and responsibilities included legal counsel to a four-star Combatant Commander, and military representative for disarmament and arms control issues to the United Nations, Conference on Disarmament and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Denver. He also holds masters’ degrees in international and comparative law from Georgetown University, in international relations from the University of Southern California, and in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College (graduated with highest distinction and won the Stephen B. Luce Award for academic achievement), and he received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science (Magna cum Laude) from Arizona State University. He is admitted to practice law in Colorado, California, Arizona and before the Military Court of Criminal Appeals and the US Supreme Court, and he is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and the International Law of War Society. Roberts has written extensively on nonproliferation, arms control, terrorism and law of war issues.
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
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EPISODE #42: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/09/08/episode-42-legendary-washington-superlobbyist-jack-abramoff-on-lobbying-us
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Western nations should approach Syrian refugee crisis with caution: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201509081430--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150908-20150908-column.html
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Jack Abramoff is arguably one of the world’s most famous lobbyists and former Washington power players. His rollercoaster life story might as well be a major motion picture. In fact, it is. Already two major motion pictures based on Abramoff’s story have hit the silver screen. Dubbed on the cover of Time Magazine as the “Man Who Bought Washington”, Abramoff rose to become the nation’s most successful and prominent lobbyist, before becoming enmeshed in the most harrowing political scandal since Watergate.
Having served 43 months in federal prison, Abramoff is out and ready to speak. Few know more than he about how Washington really works. Abramoff once labeled the dysfunctional and Byzantine system which has become our federal government as the “favor factory”. None can better show why this factory needs to be shuttered, so good government and democracy can prevail.
Born in Atlantic City, raised in Beverly Hills, California, Abramoff was graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in English Literature and Opera. At Brandeis, Abramoff commenced his political career, heading the state-wide College Republican group and was credited with delivering Massachusetts to Ronald Reagan in 1980, the first time since Eisenhower that a Republican would win the Bay State. Abramoff was soon elected as the national chairman of the College Republicans and built that organization into the largest student political organization in the free world.
His next position foreshadowed his rise to national prominence, as he was chosen to head President Reagan’s grassroots lobbying organization. In this role, Abramoff honed the lobbying skills he would later deploy to become the nation’s top legislative advocate. Under his leadership the organization moved major Reagan administration initiatives through the Congress and sponsored the world’s first convocation of anti-Soviet forces in the bush of Southern Africa.
As the Reagan era wound down, Abramoff moved from the world of politics to the world of cinema, becoming a motion picture producer – making action adventure films, including “Red Scorpion”. His international experience in structuring motion picture finance made him a popular lecturer at Georgetown University Law Center, where he had been graduated in 1986; but the siren call of politics drew Abramoff back to his roots, and in 1994, he joined the lobbying division of the law firm headed by Bill Gates’ father. Abramoff set to work and, within a few years, built one of the nation’s most prestigious and profitable lobbying practices. As Abramoff continued to build, his political base expanded and soon he found himself at the top of his profession.
When a corporation, Indian tribe, or foreign nation needed to win, they went to Team Abramoff, the eclectic hand-picked team of lobbying guns he assembled. Their clients rarely were defeated, and reaped billions of dollars of benefit.
Abramoff’s arsenal included his Signatures restaurant, one of the Capital’s finest, some of the best sports tickets in the nation, and an unlimited capacity to raise funds to fuel the political system which made his influence possible.
Abramoff had it all. And then it was gone. In an instant, his world collapsed and Abramoff fell into the abyss, eventually landing in federal prison, his name becoming synonymous with corruption and what’s wrong with our government.
The fall from grace changed Jack Abramoff and woke him up. And now, Abramoff is determined to do all he can to rectify the wrong he did and to identify and help end the corruption of the system he so well played. His orations will not only serve as a cautionary tale, but as an historic platform for reform of the system. Website: www.abramoff.com
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EPISODE #41: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2015 ("Best Of" Summer Series - Original airdate June 2, 2015 )
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/09/02/episode-41-lt-col-james-carafano-phd-was-author-john-steinbeck-a-cia-agent
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Clinton email dump is popcorn worthy: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201509011500--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20150901-20150901-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
James Carafano, a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges, is The Heritage Foundation’s Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies. In his Army career, he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He served in Europe, Korea and the United States. His assignments included head speechwriter for the Army Chief of Staff, the service's highest-ranking officer. Before retiring, he was executive editor of Joint Force Quarterly, the Defense Department's premiere professional military journal.
A graduate of West Point, he holds a master's degree and a doctorate from Georgetown University as well as a master's degree in strategy from the U.S. Army War College. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the Institute of World Politics and has served as a visiting professor at National Defense University. He previously served as an assistant professor at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., and as director of military studies at the Army's Center of Military History. He taught at Mount Saint Mary College in New York and was a fleet professor at the U.S. Naval War College. He has written several books, the latest being "Wiki at War: Conflict in a socially networked world".
Brian Kannard is the author of the book, "Steinbeck: Citizen Spy", which examines a previously unknown relationship between The Grapes of Wrath author, John Steinbeck, and the CIA. He left a management career in 2009 to finish his first book, Skullduggery: 45 True Tales of Disturbing the Dead, and in early 2010 opened the independent publishing house Grave Distractions Publications. Grave Distractions has published 70 books for 22 different authors; including works from Dead Sea Scrolls scholar Dr. Robert Eisenman and American History Professor Dr. James T. Baker of Western Kentucky University. Brian also does freelance writing and his articles have been featured in such places as: Armchair General Magazine, CNN, Coast to Coast AM, Yahoo News, and Unexplained Mysteries.
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EPISODE #40: TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2015 ("Best Of" Summer Series - Original airdate June 9, 2015 )
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/08/26/episode-40-cias-eric-burkhart-israeli-securityintelligence-expert
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Nonchalance does nothing to discourage terrorism: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201508251230--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150825-20150825-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Jonathan" is a manager of Condor Security Enterprises, an Israeli security consulting and training institution that specializes in advanced solutions for the law enforcement, security operatives and professional communities. Established in 1996, the staff is composed of operatives from the Israeli security establishment that have had vast field experience combined with management and instructional positions. www.condor-security.com
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
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EPISODE #39: TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 ("Best Of" Summer Series - Original airdate April 7, 2015)
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/08/19/episode-39-cia-station-chief-on-spy-tales-silicon-valley-veteran-on-hacking
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Iran wants a high-tech value meal, hold the fries: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201508181200--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150818-20150818-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
Philip Lieberman is President and CEO of Lieberman Software, as well as an outspoken and highly regarded technology expert who is quoted by national, business and trade press on cyber security. Lieberman has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Reuters, The Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, The Washington Post, USA Today and BBC News, as well as prestigious industry publications including Computerworld, CSO, Dark Reading, eWeek, IDG News, Informationweek and MIT Technology Review.
Lieberman is the chief blogger at Identity Week www.identityweek.com
A highly accomplished software engineer by training with over 30 years of experience, Lieberman is able to astutely perceive shortcomings in existing products on the market, and fill those gaps with innovative solutions. As president and founder of Lieberman Software, he developed the first products for the privileged password management and shared account password management space, and continues to introduce new solutions to resolve the security threat of common local account credentials.
Lieberman has published numerous books in the field of computer science, has taught at UCLA, and has been the author of many computer science courses. He has a B.A. from San Francisco State University (1981) in Physics with minors in Computer Science and Business.
Recent media coverage can be found at: http://www.liebsoft.com/In_The_News/
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EPISODE #38: TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2015 ("Best Of" Summer Series - Original airdate May 5, 2015)
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/08/12/episode-38-fmr-cia-director-of-operations-jack-devine
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Trump capitalizes on ludicrous debate: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201508111200--tms--amvoicesctnav-bb20150811-20150811-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Jack Devine is a founding partner and President of The Arkin Group LLC, which specializes in international crisis management, strategic intelligence, investigative research and business problem solving. He is a 32-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”). Mr. Devine served as both Acting Director and Associate Director of CIA’s operations outside the United States from 1993-1995, where he had supervisory authority over thousands of CIA employees involved in sensitive missions throughout the world. In addition, he served as Chief of the Latin American Division from 1992-1993 and was the principal manager of the CIA’s sensitive projects in Latin America.
Between 1990 and 1992, Mr. Devine headed the CIA’s Counternarcotics Center, which was responsible for coordinating and building close cooperation between all major U.S. and foreign law enforcement agencies in tracking worldwide narcotics and crime organizations. From 1985-1987, Mr. Devine headed the CIA’s Afghan Task Force, which successfully countered Soviet aggression in the region. In 1987, he was awarded the CIA’s Meritorious Officer Award for this accomplishment.
Mr. Devine’s international experience with the U.S. government included postings to Latin America and Europe. During his more than 30 years with the CIA, Mr. Devine was involved in organizing, planning and executing countless sensitive projects in virtually all areas of intelligence, including analysis, operations, technology and management.
He is the recipient of the Agency’s Distinguished Intelligence Medal and several meritorious awards. He is a recognized expert in Intelligence matters and has written Op-Ed articles for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Foreign Affair Magazine, The World Policy Journal and Politico. He has also made guest appearances on National Press Club, CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, CSPAN as well as the History and Discovery channels, PBS, NPR and ABC Radio.
Mr. Devine resides in New York City and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He speaks Spanish and Italian.
Mr. Devine’s book, “Good Hunting! A Spymaster’s Story” was published in June 2014. It focuses on his Agency career and the role of Covert Action in the past and the future.
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EPISODE #37: TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2015 ("Best Of" Summer Series - Original airdate May 12, 2015)
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/08/05/episode-37-clinton-cash-author-peter-schweitzer-and-chinese-spying-expert
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Obama's curious petro-diplomacy: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201508041430--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150804-20150804-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Peter Schweizer is the author of the new bestselling book, "Clinton Cash: The untold story of how and why foreign governments and businesses helped make Bill and Hillary rich", as well as "Extortion", "Throw Them All Out", "Architects of Ruin", and other books that have revealed political wrongdoing, and led to congressional resignations and new ethics laws. He is the founder and President of the Government Accountability Institute, a team of investigative researchers and journalists committed to investigating and exposing cronyism, misuse of taxpayer monies, and other governmental corruption or malfeasance. He is based in Tallahassee, Florida.
Joshua Philipp is an award-winning investigative journalist at Epoch Times where he covers national security relating to China. He is an expert on China's role and approaches to espionage, theft of trade secrets, and strategies for unconventional warfare, including both human (HUMINT) and cyber (SIGINT) approaches. From 2008 to 2010, he conducted on-the-ground investigations into the Triads and uncovered their connections to the Chinese Communist Party. He has since uncovered several Chinese programs for spying on their citizens abroad, pressuring dissidents, influencing politics, and infiltrating Western companies. You can find his latest stories at http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/author/joshua-philipp/
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EPISODE #36: TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/07/29/episode-36-lt-cdr-ret-james-sisco
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: 'President Trump' is an idea whose time has come: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201507281300--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20150728-20150728-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
James Sisco is a retired Lieutenant Commander, Reconnaissance Marine, and Naval Intelligence Officer with the U.S. Navy and the founder and President of ENODO Global. His career spans from leading Marine Reconnaissance missions in OPERATION DESERT STORM to supporting the U.S. Director of National Intelligence as an authority on Afghanistan. Career highlights include leading training missions in Africa while assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia and co-authoring the “Navy Counter-Terrorism Optimization Report” while assigned to the Navy’s premier strategic studies group “Deep Blue.” As a result, he was hand-selected to establish the U.S. Navy’s Irregular Warfare Office. Jim also coauthored “Left of Bang” with Lieutenant General Flynn, U.S. Army, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and is recognized within the intelligence community as a leader in socio-cultural analysis. In 2001, he led strike operations for U.S. Navy Carrier Air Wing One and in 2005 he served as the U.S. military liaison to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. He returned to Afghanistan in 2009 and was assigned to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s International Security Assistance Force’s Force-Reintegration Cell (ISAF-FRIC) where he led ISAF reintegration activities throughout the country. These experiences resulted in an assignment to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence where he managed Afghanistan intelligence and integration programs for the National Security Council.
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EPISODE #35: TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/07/22/episode-35-us-socom-advisor-mark-moyar-asia-times-pepe-escobar
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: A simple solution to the Islamic State problem: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201507211430--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20150721-20150721-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times/Hong Kong, an analyst for RT and TomDispatch, and a frequent contributor to websites and radio shows ranging from the US to East Asia. Born in Brazil, he's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, and has lived in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Even before 9/11 he specialized in covering the arc from the Middle East to Central and East Asia, with an emphasis on Big Power geopolitics and energy wars. He is the author of 'Globalistan' (Nimble Books, 2007); 'Red Zone Blues' (Nimble Books, 2007); 'Obama does Globalistan' (Nimble Books, 2009); and a contributing editor for a number of other books, including 'Crossroads of Leadership: Globalization and the New American Century in the Obama Presidency' (Routledge). His latest book, just published, is 'Empire of Chaos' (Nimble Books, 2014). When not on the road, he alternates between Sao Paulo, London and Hong Kong. Follow him on Facebook.
Mark Moyar, PhD, is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and a member of the Hoover Institution Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict. From 2004 to 2010, he served as a professor at the U.S. Marine Corps University, where he held the Kim T. Adamson Chair of Insurgency and Terrorism. He holds a BA from Harvard and a PhD from Cambridge. He has also taught at Texas A&M University, the Ohio State University, Cambridge University, and the Foreign Service Institute. He has served as a consultant to the senior leadership of the Special Operations Joint Task Force-Afghanistan, U.S. Central Command, U.S. Special Operations Command, the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, and the NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan. His new book is Strategic Failure: How President Obama’s Drone Warfare, Defense Cuts, and Military Amateurism Have Imperiled America (Threshold, June 2015)
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EPISODE #34: TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/07/14/episode-34-cia-ops-officer-eric-burkhart-dr-ed-tick-war-trauma-expert
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Iran deal must begin Western shift toward economic-security mindset: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201507141300--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150714-20150714-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
Edward Tick, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized transformational healer, psychotherapist, writer and educator. Co-Founder and Executive Director of Soldier’s Heart (www.soldiersheart.net), he has been working with veterans for over 38 years. Ed works internationally on the psychospiritual and cross-cultural healing of military and war trauma and on holistic and psycho-spiritual healing. He was the U.S. Army’s 2012 trainer in the holistic healing of PTSD, training over 2,500 chaplains and officers. He continues to work with the Army, Air Force and veterans everywhere. Ed is the author of five books including the groundbreaking and award-winning War and the Soul. His newest book, Warrior’s Return: Restoring the Soul After War, was just published.
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EPISODE #33: TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/07/07/episode-33-authorfmr-jag-officer-don-brown-hackertechnologist-ken-westin
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Profile of Homegrown Islamic State Terror Suspects Doesn't Fit Scare Campaigns: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201507071400--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150707-20150707-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Don Brown is a bestselling author and a former US Navy JAG Officer who served in the Pentagon, where he provided legal advice to the Secretary of the Navy and the Judge Advocate General of the Navy. He now pens legal and military thrillers about the Navy, and has developed an uncanny track record of prognosticating future events in his novels. Don is the author of 11 books. His first 9 books are suspense fiction action thrillers, the 11th – Don’t first work of non-fiction -- was released on May 29th and is a military expose entitled EXTORTION 17 (THE SHOOTDOWN OF SEAL TEAM 6). Don served on active duty for five years in the Navy as a JAG officer, during which time he served as military prosecutor, a Special Assistant United States Attorney, and also won the New York City Bar Association Trial Advocacy Award for winning the trial advocacy championship at the United States Naval Justice School. He remained on inactive reserve status with the Navy through 1999, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. Website: www.donbrownbooks.com
Ken Westin is a Senior Security Analyst at Tripwire Inc, with 15 years of experience building and breaking things through the use/misuse of technology. His technology exploits and endeavors have been featured in Forbes, Good Morning America, Dateline, New York Times, The Economist and has won awards from MIT, CTIA, Oregon Technology Awards, SXSW, Entrepreneur and named in Portland Business Journal's 2013 "40 Under 40". He has worked with law enforcement and journalists utilizing various technologies to unveil organized crime rings, recover stolen cars, even a car jacking amongst other crimes. Website: www.cybersecurity.io
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EPISODE #32: TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/06/30/episode-32-fmr-double-agent-naveed-jamali-cia-station-chief-scott-uehlinger
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Uber-chaos exposes the folly of French protectionism: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201506301330--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150630-20150630-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
Naveed Jamali: For three nerve-wracking years, Naveed Jamali spied on America for the Russians, trading thumb drives of sensitive technical data for envelopes of cash, selling out his own beloved country across noisy restaurant tables and in quiet parking lots. Or so the Russians believed. In fact, this young American civilian was a covert double agent working with the FBI. The Cold War wasn’t really over. It had just gone high-tech.
How to Catch a Russian Spy: The True Story of a Civilian Turned Double Agent is the one-of-a-kind story of how one young man’s post-college adventure became a real-life US counter-intelligence coup. He had no previous counter-espionage experience. Everything he knew about undercover work, he’d learned from Miami Vice and Magnum P.I. reruns and movies like Ronin, Spy Game, and anything with Bond or Bourne in the title. And yet, hoping to gain experience to become a Navy intelligence officer, he convinced the FBI and the Russians they could trust him. With charm, cunning, and a big load of naiveté, he matched wits with a veteran Russian military-intelligence officer who was recruiting spies on American soil, out-maneuvering the Russian spy and his secret-hungry superiors. Along the way, Jamali and his FBI handlers cast a rare light on espionage activities at the Russian Mission to the United Nations in New York and earned a solid US win in the escalating hostilities between Moscow and Washington.
Now, Jamali reveals the whole engaging story behind his double-agent adventure—from coded signals on Craigslist to the Russian spy’s propensity for Hooters’ Buffalo wings. Cinematic, news-breaking, and wildly entertaining, How to Catch a Russian Spy is an armchair spy fantasy brought to life. Film rights sold to Twentieth Century Fox for director Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man, 500 Days of Summer).
After his successful run as a civilian double agent, Naveed Jamali accepted a reserve commission in the US Navy. He has spent more than a decade in technology management at a senior level. He continues to advise and speak on matters of security, counter-intelligence, and understanding the motivation to spy. A life-long New Yorker, Naveed lives in New York City with his wife and two sons. He has no intention of travelling to Russia any time soon. www.naveedjamali.com
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EPISODE #31: TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/06/23/episode-31-military-intel-officer-cedric-leighton-cinema-symbolism
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: How Russia is using capitalism to win over Greece: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201506231330--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150623-20150623-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Robert W. Sullivan IV is a philosopher, historian, antiquarian, jurist, theologian, writer, and lawyer. His latest book is "Cinema Symbolism: A guide to esoteric imagery in popular movies". He holds a Juris Doctorate from Widener University School of Law in Delaware. Admitted to the State Bars of Maryland and the District of Columbia, he spent 7 years working at various law firms in the Baltimore area practicing primarily in the area of insurance defense. He is also a Freemason. Website: http://www.robertwsullivaniv.com
Cedric Leighton is the Founder & President of Cedric Leighton Associates, a strategic risk and leadership management consultancy. He honed his analytical and leadership skills during a 26-year career as an intelligence officer in the US Air Force. He witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall, oversaw critical Special Operations missions, established key partnerships with nations in South and Southeast Asia and deployed five times to the Middle East. He served at every command echelon from small deployed elements to the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, where he was the Deputy Director for Warfighter Support and Integration in the Intelligence Directorate. His last military assignment was as the National Security Agency’s Deputy Director for Training. His numerous military awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Bronze Star (for his work in Operation Iraqi Freedom), the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and seven Meritorious Service Medals. He retired as a Colonel in 2010.
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EPISODE #30: TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/06/16/episode-30
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: CIA report reveals alarming flaws in US intelligence: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201506161430--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150616-20150616-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
Joshua Philipp is an award-winning investigative journalist at Epoch Times where he covers national security relating to China. He is an expert on China's role and approaches to espionage, theft of trade secrets, and strategies for unconventional warfare, including both human (HUMINT) and cyber (SIGINT) approaches. From 2008 to 2010, he conducted on-the-ground investigations into the Triads and uncovered their connections to the Chinese Communist Party. He has since uncovered several Chinese programs for spying on their citizens abroad, pressuring dissidents, influencing politics, and infiltrating Western companies. You can find his latest stories at http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/author/joshua-philipp/
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EPISODE #29: TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/06/09/episode-29-cia-and-israeli-security-and-intelligence-experts
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Replace climate change scare tactics with free-market solution: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201506091230--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150609-20150609-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Jonathan" is a manager of Condor Security Enterprises, an Israeli security consulting and training institution that specializes in advanced solutions for the law enforcement, security operatives and professional communities. Established in 1996, the staff is composed of operatives from the Israeli security establishment that have had vast field experience combined with management and instructional positions. www.condor-security.com
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
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EPISODE #28: TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/06/02/episode-28
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Intelligence agencies need to knock off the fearmongering: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201506021330--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20150602-20150602-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
James Carafano, a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges, is The Heritage Foundation’s Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies. In his Army career, he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He served in Europe, Korea and the United States. His assignments included head speechwriter for the Army Chief of Staff, the service's highest-ranking officer. Before retiring, he was executive editor of Joint Force Quarterly, the Defense Department's premiere professional military journal.
A graduate of West Point, he holds a master's degree and a doctorate from Georgetown University as well as a master's degree in strategy from the U.S. Army War College. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the Institute of World Politics and has served as a visiting professor at National Defense University. He previously served as an assistant professor at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., and as director of military studies at the Army's Center of Military History. He taught at Mount Saint Mary College in New York and was a fleet professor at the U.S. Naval War College. He has written several books, the latest being "Wiki at War: Conflict in a socially networked world".
Brian Kannard is the author of the book, "Steinbeck: Citizen Spy", which examines a previously unknown relationship between The Grapes of Wrath author, John Steinbeck, and the CIA. He left a management career in 2009 to finish his first book, Skullduggery: 45 True Tales of Disturbing the Dead, and in early 2010 opened the independent publishing house Grave Distractions Publications. Grave Distractions has published 70 books for 22 different authors; including works from Dead Sea Scrolls scholar Dr. Robert Eisenman and American History Professor Dr. James T. Baker of Western Kentucky University. Brian also does freelance writing and his articles have been featured in such places as: Armchair General Magazine, CNN, Coast to Coast AM, Yahoo News, and Unexplained Mysteries.
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EPISODE #27: TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/05/26/episode-27
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: US-Iranian cooperation on Islamic State problem makes sense: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201505261400--tms--amvoicesctnav-cc20150526-20150526-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Pavel Sharikov is the head of the Center for Applied Research at the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He is the author of more than 30 research articles devoted to cybersecurity and international security issues. In 2008, he was a visiting scholar at George Washington University. In 2005, he was invited to join the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland. He graduated from the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Russian State University of the Humanities and defended his Ph.D. dissertation on “American cybersecurity policy".
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe, growing up in a bilingual household. This was early preparation for his career as a Case Officer with the CIA. Burkhart served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, before accepting medical retirement after having been poisoned by a foreign national who he was meeting for intelligence purposes. He recently published his memoirs: "Mukhabarat, Baby! Mortars, WMD, mayhem, and other memoirs of a wartime spy."
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EPISODE #26: TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/05/19/episode-26-fmr-cia-analyst-lisa-curtis-washington-spin-expert-eric-dezenhall
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Fewer publicity stunts, more results needed against Islamic State: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201505191400--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150519-20150519-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Lisa Curtis is a former CIA analyst specializing in America's economic, security and political relationships with India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other nations of South Asia -- now, as a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Serving abroad in the Foreign Service, she was assigned to U.S. embassies in Pakistan and India. From 2001 to 2003, Curtis was the White House-appointed senior adviser to the assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs, tracking India-Pakistan relations.
She has testified before Congress on more than a dozen occasions in recent years on topics related to India, Pakistan, radical Islamists and America’s image abroad, and co-chaired the independent Pakistan Policy Working Group, recommending how the new administration should engage an unsteady Pakistan.
Before joining Heritage in August 2006, Lisa was a member of the professional staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for three years. She was in charge of South Asia issues for the chairman at the time, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.).
In 1996, she received the State Department’s Meritorious Honor Award for her role as embassy point person in a yearlong, four-nation endeavor to free hostages held by militants in Kashmir.
Eric Dezenhall is the founder and CEO of Dezenhall Resources -- a Washington, DC-based strategic communications firm and the author of several books on crisis management. His latest:
- Glass Jaw: A Manifesto for Defending Fragile Reputations in an Age of Instant Scandal (12 Books, October 2014), explores how once-powerful people, organizations and brands are easily brought down by seemingly powerless forces through the media and internet, which feed almost exclusively on destructive information. The book highlights new, often counter-intuitive strategies for fighting back.
Eric is on the faculty of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business where he teaches a course on crisis management and marketplace defense to MBA students. He has taught at the American Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education programs on subjects including securities fraud litigation and managing high-profile trials. He has also lectured at graduate and undergraduate programs at institutions including Georgetown, New York University, Dartmouth and the University of Maryland, in addition to the United States Army and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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EPISODE #25: TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/05/12/episode-25-clinton-cash-author-peter-schweitzer-and-chinese-spying-expert
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Americans deserve a better return on diplomatic missions: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201505121300--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20150512-20150512-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Peter Schweizer is the author of the new bestselling book, "Clinton Cash: The untold story of how and why foreign governments and businesses helped make Bill and Hillary rich", as well as "Extortion", "Throw Them All Out", "Architects of Ruin", and other books that have revealed political wrongdoing, and led to congressional resignations and new ethics laws. He is the founder and President of the Government Accountability Institute, a team of investigative researchers and journalists committed to investigating and exposing cronyism, misuse of taxpayer monies, and other governmental corruption or malfeasance. He is based in Tallahassee, Florida.
Joshua Philipp is an award-winning investigative journalist at Epoch Times where he covers national security relating to China. He is an expert on China's role and approaches to espionage, theft of trade secrets, and strategies for unconventional warfare, including both human (HUMINT) and cyber (SIGINT) approaches. From 2008 to 2010, he conducted on-the-ground investigations into the Triads and uncovered their connections to the Chinese Communist Party. He has since uncovered several Chinese programs for spying on their citizens abroad, pressuring dissidents, influencing politics, and infiltrating Western companies. You can find his latest stories at http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/author/joshua-philipp/
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EPISODE #24: TUESDAY MAY 5, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/05/05/episode-24-fmr-cia-director-of-operations-jack-devine
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Lowering the bar puts American society at risk: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201505051330--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150505-20150505-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Jack Devine is a founding partner and President of The Arkin Group LLC, which specializes in international crisis management, strategic intelligence, investigative research and business problem solving. He is a 32-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”). Mr. Devine served as both Acting Director and Associate Director of CIA’s operations outside the United States from 1993-1995, where he had supervisory authority over thousands of CIA employees involved in sensitive missions throughout the world. In addition, he served as Chief of the Latin American Division from 1992-1993 and was the principal manager of the CIA’s sensitive projects in Latin America.
Between 1990 and 1992, Mr. Devine headed the CIA’s Counternarcotics Center, which was responsible for coordinating and building close cooperation between all major U.S. and foreign law enforcement agencies in tracking worldwide narcotics and crime organizations. From 1985-1987, Mr. Devine headed the CIA’s Afghan Task Force, which successfully countered Soviet aggression in the region. In 1987, he was awarded the CIA’s Meritorious Officer Award for this accomplishment.
Mr. Devine’s international experience with the U.S. government included postings to Latin America and Europe. During his more than 30 years with the CIA, Mr. Devine was involved in organizing, planning and executing countless sensitive projects in virtually all areas of intelligence, including analysis, operations, technology and management.
He is the recipient of the Agency’s Distinguished Intelligence Medal and several meritorious awards. He is a recognized expert in Intelligence matters and has written Op-Ed articles for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Foreign Affair Magazine, The World Policy Journal and Politico. He has also made guest appearances on National Press Club, CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, CSPAN as well as the History and Discovery channels, PBS, NPR and ABC Radio.
Mr. Devine resides in New York City and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He speaks Spanish and Italian.
Mr. Devine’s book, “Good Hunting! A Spymaster’s Story” was published in June 2014. It focuses on his Agency career and the role of Covert Action in the past and the future.
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EPISODE #23: TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/04/28/episode-23-fmr-cia-station-chief-top-international-internet-culture-expert
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: The Republic of Clintonstan's problematic matchmaking: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201504281400--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150428-20150428-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
Andrew Keen is one of the world’s best known and controversial commentators on the digital revolution. He is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and his current international hit The Internet Is Not The Answer which the London Sunday Times acclaimed as a "powerful, frightening read" and the Washington Post called "an enormously useful primer for those of us concerned that online life isn't as shiny as our digital avatars would like us to believe". He is executive director of the Silicon Valley innovation salon FutureCast, the host of the popular Internet chat show "Keen On", a Senior Fellow at CALinnovates,a columnist for CNN and a much acclaimed public speaker around the world. In 2015, he was named by GQ magazine in their list of the "100 Most Connected Men”.
Andrew has given keynote speeches in many countries around the world. At the United Nations Conference about the Internet in Rio, he debated Internet founder Vint Cerf and he has lectured at many universities including UC Berkeley, Vanderbilt, Stanford, MIT, Milan, Oxford, York, Warsaw and Amsterdam, where he gave the 21st Globalization Felix Meritis lecture. He has appeared at leading literary festivals such as Hay, Rio de Janeiro, Edinburgh and Los Angeles. He is a frequent speaker on the conference circuit at technology and business events like TED, DLD, Mobile World Congress, Wired, Techcrunch Disrupt,Names Not Numbers, Techonomy and the Drucker Forum. He is also an experienced public debater, working with events like Intelligence Squared and debating other luminaries such as Walter Isaacson and Nicholas Carr.
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EPISODE #22: TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/04/21/episode-22-experts-on-defence-cooperation-arctic-militaryeconomic-strategy
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: The FBI's identity crisis: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201504211400--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20150421-20150421-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Mika Mered is a consultant in political risks and economic perspective studies applied to the Arctic and Antarctic, and CEO at London-based POLARISK Analytics: the first political risk firm exclusively focused on the Arctic and Antarctic frontier markets.
Director of the Arctic/Antarctic Policy research program at the Paris-based Institute for European Perspective and Security (IPSE), Mikå has been academically trained at Columbia University, The New School (New York) and The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID, Geneva), and contributes to several research groups such as the French Arctic Initiative and the Arctic Energy Network, among others.
Visiting Arctic Speaker at the US Arctic Research Consortium (ARCUS), Mikå is a member of the American Polar Society (APS), the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), and the French Institute for Higher National Defence Studies’s Young Auditors Association (ANAJ-IHEDN).
Andrew Rasiulis is a Fellow with the Canadian Defense And Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI). He completed his undergraduate study in Political Science/History at the University of Toronto in 1978 and received his Master of Arts from the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, in Strategic Studies in 1979. In 1979 Mr. Rasiulis was appointed a commissioned officer in the Canadian Forces Primary Reserve (Governor General's Foot Guards).
He joined the Department of National Defence in 1979 as an analyst with the Directorate of Strategic Analysis, specializing in strategic politico-military issues pertaining to conventional forces. These issues included emerging concepts of conventional defence strategies for Western Europe, as well as the Canadian Government's efforts in the area of conventional arms control. In 1987, Mr. Rasiulis was promoted to Section Head, within the Directorate of Nuclear and Arms Control Policy, responsible for conventional arms control policy. He was also the Department of National Defence representative on NATO's High Level Task Force for conventional arms control from its inception in 1986 to 1989.
In June 1989 Mr. Rasiulis was posted as a Defence Advisor to the Canadian Delegation for Conventional Arms Control Talks in Vienna. Upon completion of his tour Mr. Rasiulis returned to National Defence Headquarters in April 1992 as Section Head responsible for policy on Central and Eastern Europe, including the Department's Military Training and Assistance Program (MTAP) with Central and Eastern Europe. In May 1996, Mr. Rasiulis was also assigned the responsibility of Programme Manager for the entire MTAP. He was subsequently designated as Director, Military Training Assistance Programme (and Eastern European Policy) in 1998.
Reflecting the growth of responsibility within the area of defence diplomacy, Mr. Rasiulis was re-designated Director Military Training and Cooperation in 2009. His responsibilities included the development of the policy for defence training cooperation with developing countries world wide, as well as overseeing its operational implementation.
Mr. Rasiulis' MA thesis, On the Utility of War in the Nuclear Age, developed a theory on limited conventional war. It was subsequently published as a Wellesley Paper in 1981 by the Canadian Institute for International Affairs and the Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies. He has also published numerous articles on conventional strategy, arms control and international military training cooperation.
Mr Rasiulis is retired from the Public Service and is now a freelance consultant with Andrew Rasiulis Associates Inc.
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EPISODE #21: TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/04/14/episode-21-deputy-director-of-the-national-geospatial-intelligence-agency
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: America can't afford another 'domestic' president: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201504141530--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150414-20150414-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Mike has 25 years of service with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and its predecessor organizations, the bulk of which focused on imagery analysis. His areas of expertise include North Korean ground forces, counter-terrorism, counter-narcotics, and persistent surveillance. Mike also served two tours each in both Iraq and Afghanistan in leadership capacities.
Dr Deane-Peter Baker is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Canberra, based at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He specializes in military ethics and also teaches and does research on topics including private military and security contractors, military strategy and counterinsurgency. Prior to taking up his current position Dr Baker taught in the Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law at the US Naval Academy. He has held Visiting Fellowships at institutions including the US Army War College and the Triangle Institute for Security Studes at Duke University. Dr. Baker served briefly in the British Army and later was a reserve officer in the South African Army, where he worked in strategy formulation and was part of the leader group of a reserve armoured car regiment, the Umvoti Mounted Rifles.
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EPISODE #20: TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/04/07/episode-20-cia-station-chief-on-spy-tales-silicon-valley-veteran-on-hacking
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: America is under threat from reactive foreign policy: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201504071600--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150407-20150407-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
Philip Lieberman is President and CEO of Lieberman Software, as well as an outspoken and highly regarded technology expert who is quoted by national, business and trade press on cyber security. Lieberman has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Reuters, The Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, The Washington Post, USA Today and BBC News, as well as prestigious industry publications including Computerworld, CSO, Dark Reading, eWeek, IDG News, Informationweek and MIT Technology Review.
Lieberman is the chief blogger at Identity Week www.identityweek.com
A highly accomplished software engineer by training with over 30 years of experience, Lieberman is able to astutely perceive shortcomings in existing products on the market, and fill those gaps with innovative solutions. As president and founder of Lieberman Software, he developed the first products for the privileged password management and shared account password management space, and continues to introduce new solutions to resolve the security threat of common local account credentials.
Lieberman has published numerous books in the field of computer science, has taught at UCLA, and has been the author of many computer science courses. He has a B.A. from San Francisco State University (1981) in Physics with minors in Computer Science and Business.
Recent media coverage can be found at: http://www.liebsoft.com/In_The_News/
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EPISODE #19: TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/03/31/episode-19-former-cia-station-chief-and-israeli-securityintel-expert
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: World powers resigned to accepting the inevitable with Iran: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201503311330--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150331-20150331-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Jonathan" is a manager of Condor Security Enterprises, an Israeli security consulting and training institution that specializes in advanced solutions for the law enforcement, security operatives and professional communities. Established in 1996, the staff is composed of operatives from the Israeli security establishment that have had vast field experience combined with management and instructional positions. www.condor-security.com
Scott Uehlinger, a 1986 graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, entered naval service upon graduation, serving at sea for almost ten years. Entering the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer in 1996, he served abroad in US embassies located in the former Soviet Union for more than twelve years. A Russian speaker, he has protracted experience working against the Russian HUMINT target, as well as successes against Iranian, Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation targets, amongst others. Scott recently retired from the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Naval Reserve as a Commander. He has recently began public speaking at universities and veterans organizations, and can be found at speakermatch.com under "spyguy" for anyone interested in hearing him speak.
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EPISODE #18: TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/03/24/episode-18-israeli-securityintel-expert-on-how-to-react-to-realistic-threats
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Is America tough enough to deal with modern threats? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201503241400--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20150324-20150324-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Jonathan" is a manager of Condor Security Enterprises, an Israeli security consulting and training institution that specializes in advanced solutions for the law enforcement, security operatives and professional communities. Established in 1996, the staff is composed of operatives from the Israeli security establishment that have had vast field experience combined with management and instructional positions. www.condor-security.com
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
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EPISODE #17: TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/03/17/episode-17-fmr-uk-ambassador-on-russia-fmr-cia-officer-on-security-and-intel
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Lost art of listening is essential in geopolitics: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201503171700--tms--amvoicesctnav-d20150317-20150317-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Charles Crawford retired from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office at the end of 2007 after nearly three decades in the UK’s Diplomatic Service, most of it spent serving in or dealing with communist and post-communist Europe
After he completed a law degree at Oxford University and was called to the English Bar, he spent two years at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Massachusetts
He joined the FCO in 1979. His first posting in 1981 was to communist post-Tito Yugoslavia. He returned to London in 1984 and after a year on the Aviation Desk was appointed FCO Speechwriter. He was posted to South Africa in 1987 as part of the Embassy team led by Ambassador Robin Renwick working to end apartheid
Returning to London in 1991 he worked in the FCO Department dealing with the Soviet Union as communist rule collapsed. He then spent three years in Moscow as Political Counsellor. He served three times as HM Ambassador: in Sarajevo (1996-1998); in Belgrade (2001-2003) and finally in Poland (2003-2007). In 1998 he was awarded the CMG for his work in post-conflict reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Charles Crawford has considerable senior operational experience in the diplomatic and policy aspects of the post-Cold War transition process in Russia/CIS and Poland as well as the complexities of the former Yugoslavia. He speaks to varying degrees Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, Polish, Russian, French and Afrikaans
He is now pursuing a private consultancy career from his home in Oxfordshire in England, focusing on personal communication technique and negotiation/mediation. He is a frequent contributor to the UK and international media on diplomatic and global policy issues. He is a founder partner of The Ambassador Partnership LLP and the author of the book, “Speechwriting for leaders: Speeches that leave people wanting more”:
Website: www.charlescrawford.biz
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
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EPISODE #16: TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/03/10/episode-16-advice-from-us-and-israeli-security-and-intelligence-veterans
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Why the West is an inviting target for jihadist propaganda: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201503101500--tms--amvoicesctnav-cc20150310-20150310-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Jonathan" is a manager of Condor Security Enterprises, an Israeli security consulting and training institution that specializes in advanced solutions for the law enforcement, security operatives and professional communities. Established in 1996, the staff is composed of operatives from the Israeli security establishment that have had vast field experience combined with management and instructional positions. www.condor-security.com
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
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EPISODE #15: TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/03/04/episode-15-security-w-fmr-cia-officer-narcissism-with-expert-psychologist
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Nemtsov's Red Square murder a compelling mystery: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201503031630--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20150303-20150303-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
W. Keith Campbell, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia, is the author of more than 100 scientific articles, chapters and the books, When You Love a Man Who Loves Himself: How to Deal with a One-way Relationship; The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement (with Jean Twenge); and the The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Findings, and Treatments (with Josh Miller). His work on narcissism has appeared in USA Today, Time, and The New York Times, and he has made numerous radio and television appearances, including The Today Show, NPR’s All Things Considered, and The Glenn Beck Show. He holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA from San Diego State University, and a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and did his postdoctoral work at Case Western Reserve University. www.wkeithcampbell.com
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EPISODE #14: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/02/25/episode-14-security-vs-civil-liberties-w-fmr-cia-officer-and-eff-technologist
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Hollywood out of its political depth on Oscar night: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201502241400--tms--amvoicesctnav-cc20150224-20150224-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Cooper Quintin is a Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in San Francisco. He works on security and privacy research. He also maintains Privacy Badger, a browser add-on for blocking third-party trackers online. In his spare time he contributes to open source projects and teaches activists and journalists all over the world how to have better computer security.
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
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EPISODE #13: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/02/18/episode-13-china-military-and-defense-expert-former-cia-operations-officer
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: China's torrid Middle Eastern affair: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/sns-201502171700--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20150217-20150217-story.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Dean Cheng brings detailed knowledge of China's military and space capabilities to bear as The Heritage Foundation's research fellow on Chinese political and security affairs.
He specializes in China's military and foreign policy, in particular its relationship with the rest of Asia and with the United States.
Cheng has written extensively on China's military doctrine, technological implications of its space program and "dual use" issues associated with the communist nation's industrial and scientific infrastructure.
He previously worked for 13 years as a senior analyst, first with Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), the Fortune 500 specialist in defense and homeland security, and then with the China Studies division of the Center for Naval Analyses, the federally funded research institute.
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
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EPISODE #12: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/02/11/episode-12-canadian-terrorismradicalization-russian-military-experts
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: The downside of globalization and an interconnected world: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201502101530--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150210-20150210-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Michael Kofman is a Russia security and defense expert at the Wilson Center. He spent years managing professional military education programs and military to military engagements for senior officers at National Defense University. There, he served as a subject matter expert and adviser to military and government officials on issues in Russia/Eurasia. He has represented the Department of Defense in a number of track one and track two efforts with Russia and Pakistan, along with strategic dialogues and conferences with experts in the field. His prior experience includes working at the U.S. Institute of Peace, HSBC Bank, and The Diplomatic Courier. He has published and co-authored articles on security issues in Russia, Central Asia and Eurasia, along with numerous analyses for the US government. Mr.Kofman holds a M.A. in International Security from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University and a B.A. in Political Science from Northeastern University.
Michael Zekulin is a Lecturer at the University of Calgary. He received his degree from the University of Calgary in 2012 where his dissertation, A Growing Disconnect: Can the Contemporary Terrorism Literature Explain Domestic Homegrown Terrorism? investigated the 2004 Madrid attack, the 2005 London 7/7 attack and the 2006 Toronto plot which were some of the earliest examples of what we would today label homegrown terrorism. His research agenda and publications have focused predominantly on terrorism related topics, including radicalization, counter-radicalization, anti-terrorism legislation and security certificates, and infrastructure and event security (terrorism and the Olympic Games). Over the course of his research, he has started an Islamic-inspired homegrown terrorism (IIHGT) incident database which so far includes all incidents in Canada, Australia and the US (to mid 2013) with plans of including the UK and Europe. He has several projects, including a comparative examination of national counter-radicalization strategies and a project designed to investigate how open certain minority communities might be to the counter-narratives needed to combat radicalization.
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EPISODE #11: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/02/04/episode-11-ciamossad-joint-ops-new-canadian-terror-laws-new-us-warfare
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Intelligence agencies must be able to fight terrorism in secret: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201502031330--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150203-20150203-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Dakota Wood served America for two decades in the U.S. Marine Corps, is the Senior Research Fellow for Defense Programs at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC.
Wood’s research and writing focus on programs, capabilities, operational concepts, and strategies of the U.S. Department of Defense and military services to assess their utility in ensuring the United States has the ability to protect and promote its critical national security interests.
Wood grew up in Claremore, Oklahoma, and graduated in 1985 from the U.S. Naval Academy with a bachelor of science degree in oceanography. He was named a distinguished graduate for his work in earning a master’s degree in national security and strategic studies from the College of Naval Command and Staff, U.S. Naval War College. He was also recognized for meritorious distinction by the Marine Corps’ School of Advanced Warfighting.
In his service as a Marine, Dakota participated in the planning and execution of operations around the world to include Operation Enduring Freedom following the attacks of 9/11 and Operation Iraqi Freedom to depose Saddam Hussein. Dakota culminated his career conducting studies on military, technology, economic and political matters for senior officials at the highest levels of the Marine Corps and the Defense Department.
Wood retired from the U.S. Marine Corps as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2005, having enjoyed a 20-year career during which he served with a variety of operational units and in various high-level staff assignments. His operational experiences included a number of contingencies ranging from the evacuation of American citizens from countries in crisis to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
His professional and personal travel took him to over thirty countries on five continents and transit through most of the world’s oceans and seas, experiences that included multiple deployments to Asia and the Mediterranean region, NATO support operations in the Balkans, and contingency operations in W. Africa.
Then-Major Wood was a lead operational/logistics planner for U.S. Central Command during the initial operational response to the attacks of Sept 11, 2001, as well as numerous plans that included non-combatant evacuation operations and WMD counter-proliferation plans as well as logistics support for the bed-down of special operations forces in Central/Southwest Asia in the early phases of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Recruited by-name in late 2002, he was deployed to augment and lead operational analysis and logistics planning and execution efforts in support of Marine Corps combat forces for the invasion phase of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.
Mr. Wood also served as a strategic analyst for the Commandant of the Marine Corps and, later, while assigned to the Office of Net Assessment, the Secretary of Defense’s internal “think tank,” where he participated in a range of comparative analyses of military, technological, political, economic, and other factors governing the relative military capabilities of nations, with a specific focus on identifying emerging or potential threats and opportunities for the United States.
Following retirement in 2005, Mr. Wood helped to organize and operationalize the National Biosurveillance Integration System, a Department of Homeland Security effort intended to provide national leadership with the earliest indications of a potential biological threat to the United States.
From 2006 to 2011, Mr. Wood served as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments where he organized or materially contributed to numerous seminar-style wargames conducted for various Department of Defense sponsors as well as authoring papers on a diverse array of topics that included: conventional operations against a nuclear-armed adversary; US response options to the imminent failure of a large state; the operational challenges of a protracted global irregular warfare (IW) campaign; the many implications of the proliferation of advanced technologies and weapons; evolving security challenges within the Western Hemisphere; and the development of transformation strategies to improve the ability of the US military to protect the US and its interests.
Most recently, Mr. Wood served as the Strategist for the U.S. Marine Corps’ Special Operations Command. In this capacity, Mr. Wood was responsible for advising the Commander on strategic level guidance, policies, and operational concepts effecting the future employment of MARSOC forces, personally facilitated the development of a new concept for the integration of operational capabilities of special operations forces and forward-deployed conventional forces, and helped shape MARSOC’s understanding and explanation of the utility of Marine Corps special operations forces in support of national security interests.
Mr. Wood has been a frequent contributor to the news media, having been consulted on a wide range of national security and defense matters by a number of national and international outlets. He has also provided expert testimony to the U.S. Congress and has been consulted by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), Congressional Research Service (CRS), and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
"Ash" is a former Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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EPISODE #10: TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/01/21/episode-10-fmr-special-branchmi6-officer-fmr-cia-officer-on-terrorism
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: France needs no-nonsense approach to weeding out domestic terrorism: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201501201300--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150120-20150120-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Carlton King was a senior Scotland Yard Special Branch officer who spent his whole twenty-eight year career working in covert political policing, intelligence and security including extremism, terrorism and espionage. For several of those years Carlton was an SIS (MI6) Case Officer in that organisation’s counter terrorism section. In SIS CT Carlton worked world-wide against the UK’s enemies. After a year in the NPOIU, heading up that organisation’s Strategic Analysis Unit informing Police, Government, MOD and the Agencies of potential future threats to the nation, Carlton returned to MPSB.In MPSB Carlton ran a plethora of protection operations in the UK and throughout world especially in high threat low infrastructure environments and warzones. Forever traveling, Carlton has worked with most police, intelligence and security service agencies from throughout the world. Prior to joining the British services Carlton was an Exchange Detective for the US Department of Defence in West Germany after initially spending time as a German Haus Detektiv.
Carlton who lived in Germany for several years has a BSc in Criminology, speaks several languages and is married with children and grandchildren.
A Secret Life (1986 – 2012) Special Branch, MI6, NPOIU & Allied Matters - tells the story of Carlton King’s professional life within Britain’s Police Security and Intelligence services. From his birth in a northern mill town to a case officer in SIS and one of the country’s leading protection officers the book explores this secret and usually closed world.
We learn that Carlton was born into a large first generation immigrant working class family, where money was tight but love was abundant. We discover that as a relatively good student, and like his father a keen sportsman, Carlton had to consider whether to follow an academic or athletic path. However, life’s twists and turns finally cause Carlton to reject both paths and take him into the entertainment industry in West Germany where he lives for several years. The book covers Carlton’s move into law enforcement in Germany, first as a Haus Detektiv and then as a Detective with a branch of the US Military. It was after advice from his American boss in this agency, a long serving senior FBI agent that Carlton decided to leave West Germany and embark on a career in the Metropolitan Police hoping to join Special Branch (MPSB). Since 1884 MPSB had been Britain’s secret police, it dealt with all the political ‘crimes’ that came to Scotland Yard’s attention.
The book follows Carlton’s career through the highly competitive selection process into MPSB, its training regime and the close working relationship with MI5 (The Security Service) and other specialist, security and intelligence services in Britain, Europe and the world. Carlton’s operations against Communists, Irish, Middle Eastern, Right Wing and religiously inspired extremists and terrorists also shines a light onto the secret world of undercover and sustained operations against extremists, foreign spies and Intelligence officers.
Uniquely selected to MI6 as a Case Officer in SIS’ Counter Terrorism section, the book explains how Carlton undertook mission’s throughout the world on behalf of Queen and country. His subsequent close protection operations are also detailed showing how Carlton secured the lives of British and world leaders, including Prime Ministers, Presidents. Readers will be acquainted with Carlton’s interactions with some of Britain’s and world’s most powerful and famous people including the Princess of Wales, HRH Prince Charles and HRH the Queen of Nepal and many others.
In ‘A Secret Life..’ Carlton questions government inaction relating to the alleged conduct of some MPs in relation to historical child abuse cases and contrasts this with its actions against MPSB’s SDS. Throughout the book readers are provided with an insight into the dangers flowing from Carlton’s operations around the world especially those in warzones and high threat locations such as Pakistan or Gaza. Although the absolute luxury connected with some of Carlton’s missions are also showcased.
Sadly, the book also relates how the politics and racism of the Met affected Carlton in attempting to gain promotion and in introducing his various ground breaking concepts such as his creation of counter reconnaissance teams and the high threat low infrastructure operational teams. Both were concepts that changed how British authorities performed personal protection forever and placed Special Branch/SO1 amongst the very best exponents of VVIP personal protection in the world.
Contact: http://www.twitter.com/Carlton_King
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
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EPISODE #9: TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2015
SHOW LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/01/14/episode-9-paris-terrorist-attacks-jesuischarlie-fmr-dgse-fbi-special-agent
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Terror attacks in France rooted in entitlement: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201501131300--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20150113-20150113-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Claude Moniquet has worked as a reporter in the French press, and also worked for the DGSE (French foreign intelligence service) for more than twenty years. He is author of several specialized books on terrorism and security. Mr. Moniquet is the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center's CEO and co-founder. He specializes in the conception and direction of operations of human intelligence, analysis of terrorism, security issues and geopolitics. He is a member of the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA) and of the International Counter-Terrorism Officers Association (ICTOA).
"Ash" is a former Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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EPISODE #8: TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2015
SHOW LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2015/01/07/episode-8-cia-counterintelligence-officer-and-cia-operations-officer
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Obama's video-game interventionism is no help to Europe: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201501061400--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20150106-20150106-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Chris Lynch is the author of "The CI Desk: FBI and CIA Counterintelligence As Seen From My Cubicle". He was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the younger brother of Tom and Jean. He graduated from Kalamazoo Central High School and Michigan State University, and joined the FBI in 1976, where his principal qualification was that he’d never been arrested. He worked in the Intelligence Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, and was granted a Master of Science degree in International Relations from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (Washington Program Center) in 1982. In 1985, he moved to the CIA, where most of his career was spent in the Directorate of Operations. www.thecidesk.com
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
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EPISODE #7: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2014
SHOW LINK: http://tobtr.com/7178797
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Sony leaks, CIA report highlight the 'Snowden Privacy Paradox'http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201412161330--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20141216-20141216-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Mark Bourrie holds a PhD in Canadian media and military history; he is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and has been a member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery since 1994. He has written hundreds of freelance pieces for most of the country's major magazines and newspapers, which have resulted in several awards and nominations.
Bourrie lectures on propaganda and censorship at the Department of National Defence School of Public Affairs; media history and propaganda at Carleton University; and Canadian studies at the University of Ottawa, where he is also working on a Juris Doctor degree.
His newest book, Kill The Messengers, "exposes how trends have conspired to simultaneously silence the Canadian media and elect an anti-intellectual government determined to conduct business in private."
He has also spoken out about how China uses journalists to spy inside foreign countries, having been approached himself.
"Ash" is a former Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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EPISODE #6: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2014
SHOW LINK: http://tobtr.com/7158309
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Is America headed for a Soviet-style collapse? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201412091400--tms--amvoicesctnav-cc20141209-20141209-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Naveed Jamali has a wide breadth of experience including 15 years in various management roles in technology and a decade of combined military and civilian intelligence experience. Most recently he has written about his operational involvement in succesfully thwarting Russian military intelligence collections efforts in the United States. His book "How to Catch a Russian Spy" (Simon & Schuster June 2015) has already sold in 10 countries and 20th Century Fox announced it acquired the film rights for Director Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2). www.naveedjamali.com
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
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EPISODE #5: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2014
LISTEN TO THE ARCHIVE OF THIS SHOW: http://tobtr.com/7139197
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Reforming the intelligence machine in an era of asymmetric warfare http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201412021630--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20141202-20141202-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times/Hong Kong, an analyst for RT and TomDispatch, and a frequent contributor to websites and radio shows ranging from the US to East Asia. Born in Brazil, he's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, and has lived in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Even before 9/11 he specialized in covering the arc from the Middle East to Central and East Asia, with an emphasis on Big Power geopolitics and energy wars. He is the author of 'Globalistan' (Nimble Books, 2007); 'Red Zone Blues' (Nimble Books, 2007); 'Obama does Globalistan' (Nimble Books, 2009); and a contributing editor for a number of other books, including 'Crossroads of Leadership: Globalization and the New American Century in the Obama Presidency' (Routledge). His latest book, just published, is 'Empire of Chaos' (Nimble Books, 2014). When not on the road, he alternates between Sao Paulo, London and Hong Kong. Follow him on Facebook.
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
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EPISODE #4: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2014
LISTEN TO THE ARCHIVE OF THIS SHOW: http://tobtr.com/7116611
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: What Obama Can Learn From Hagel -- And From 'Mockingjay' http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201411251200--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20141125-20141125-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
Philip Lieberman is President and CEO of Lieberman Software, as well as an outspoken and highly regarded technology expert who is quoted by national, business and trade press on cyber security. Lieberman has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Reuters, The Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, The Washington Post, USA Today and BBC News, as well as prestigious industry publications including Computerworld, CSO, Dark Reading, eWeek, IDG News, Informationweek and MIT Technology Review.
Lieberman is the chief blogger at Identity Week www.identityweek.com
A highly accomplished software engineer by training with over 30 years of experience, Lieberman is able to astutely perceive shortcomings in existing products on the market, and fill those gaps with innovative solutions. As president and founder of Lieberman Software, he developed the first products for the privileged password management and shared account password management space, and continues to introduce new solutions to resolve the security threat of common local account credentials.
Lieberman has published numerous books in the field of computer science, has taught at UCLA, and has been the author of many computer science courses. He has a B.A. from San Francisco State University (1981) in Physics with minors in Computer Science and Business.
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EPISODE #3: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2014
LISTEN TO THE ARCHIVE OF THIS SHOW: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2014/11/19/episode-3-secret-popculture-history-and-some-new-research-on-crowdfunding
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: Will Obama Finish As a Statesman Or Politician? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201411181400--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20141118-20141118-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Dan Forrer is the Executive Producer of the critically-acclaimed documentary film, "SAMPLE THIS", which details the secret history of some of the most important pop-culture events of our time.
Dan grew up listening to Top 40 radio and quickly realized he wanted to be a part of the excitement. He got his first job at fifteen in a small radio station beginning what would become a lifetime career in media.
After over a decade in radio culminating in sales management Dan decided to get out of his suit and return to creative endeavors by producing television commercials and then television series. In 1992 he co-created the Canadian reality series “To Serve and Protect”. It became Canada’s longest running reality series.
In 1999 Forrer created the syndicated series, “Mounties: True Stories of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police”. The show aired in over one hundred and twenty US television markets including network affiliates in New York and Los Angeles.
In 2010 after being inspired by a New York Times article Forrer began directing his first feature film “Sample This”. The pop culture documentary was released to critical acclaim in 2013 under the Propinquity banner.
John Berlau is a Senior Fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and before joining CEI, Berlau was an award-winning financial and political journalist. He served as Washington correspondent for Investor's Business Daily and as a staff writer for Insight magazine, published by The Washington Times. In 2002, he received Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism from Washington's National Press Club. He was a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in 2003.
John's recent work involves published research on crowdfunding, and the impact of increased regulations on taxpayers' bottom line.
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EPISODE #2: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2014
LISTEN TO THE ARCHIVE OF THIS SHOW: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2014/11/12/unredacted-episode-2-mi6-special-branch-veteran-and-veteran-fbi-special-agent
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201411111530--tms--amvoicesctnav-b20141111-20141111-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
Carlton King was a senior Scotland Yard Special Branch officer who spent his whole twenty-eight year career working in covert political policing, intelligence and security including extremism, terrorism and espionage. For several of those years Carlton was an SIS (MI6) Case Officer in that organisation’s counter terrorism section. In SIS CT Carlton worked world-wide against the UK’s enemies. After a year in the NPOIU, heading up that organisation’s Strategic Analysis Unit informing Police, Government, MOD and the Agencies of potential future threats to the nation, Carlton returned to MPSB.In MPSB Carlton ran a plethora of protection operations in the UK and throughout world especially in high threat low infrastructure environments and warzones. Forever traveling, Carlton has worked with most police, intelligence and security service agencies from throughout the world. Prior to joining the British services Carlton was an Exchange Detective for the US Department of Defence in West Germany after initially spending time as a German Haus Detektiv.
Carlton who lived in Germany for several years has a BSc in Criminology, speaks several languages and is married with children and grandchildren.
A Secret Life (1986 – 2012) Special Branch, MI6, NPOIU & Allied Matters - tells the story of Carlton King’s professional life within Britain’s Police Security and Intelligence services. From his birth in a northern mill town to a case officer in SIS and one of the country’s leading protection officers the book explores this secret and usually closed world.
We learn that Carlton was born into a large first generation immigrant working class family, where money was tight but love was abundant. We discover that as a relatively good student, and like his father a keen sportsman, Carlton had to consider whether to follow an academic or athletic path. However, life’s twists and turns finally cause Carlton to reject both paths and take him into the entertainment industry in West Germany where he lives for several years. The book covers Carlton’s move into law enforcement in Germany, first as a Haus Detektiv and then as a Detective with a branch of the US Military. It was after advice from his American boss in this agency, a long serving senior FBI agent that Carlton decided to leave West Germany and embark on a career in the Metropolitan Police hoping to join Special Branch (MPSB). Since 1884 MPSB had been Britain’s secret police, it dealt with all the political ‘crimes’ that came to Scotland Yard’s attention.
The book follows Carlton’s career through the highly competitive selection process into MPSB, its training regime and the close working relationship with MI5 (The Security Service) and other specialist, security and intelligence services in Britain, Europe and the world. Carlton’s operations against Communists, Irish, Middle Eastern, Right Wing and religiously inspired extremists and terrorists also shines a light onto the secret world of undercover and sustained operations against extremists, foreign spies and Intelligence officers.
Uniquely selected to MI6 as a Case Officer in SIS’ Counter Terrorism section, the book explains how Carlton undertook mission’s throughout the world on behalf of Queen and country. His subsequent close protection operations are also detailed showing how Carlton secured the lives of British and world leaders, including Prime Ministers, Presidents. Readers will be acquainted with Carlton’s interactions with some of Britain’s and world’s most powerful and famous people including the Princess of Wales, HRH Prince Charles and HRH the Queen of Nepal and many others.
In ‘A Secret Life..’ Carlton questions government inaction relating to the alleged conduct of some MPs in relation to historical child abuse cases and contrasts this with its actions against MPSB’s SDS. Throughout the book readers are provided with an insight into the dangers flowing from Carlton’s operations around the world especially those in warzones and high threat locations such as Pakistan or Gaza. Although the absolute luxury connected with some of Carlton’s missions are also showcased.
Sadly, the book also relates how the politics and racism of the Met affected Carlton in attempting to gain promotion and in introducing his various ground breaking concepts such as his creation of counter reconnaissance teams and the high threat low infrastructure operational teams. Both were concepts that changed how British authorities performed personal protection forever and placed Special Branch/SO1 amongst the very best exponents of VVIP personal protection in the world.
Contact: http://www.twitter.com/Carlton_King
"Ash" is a former Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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EPISODE #1: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2014:
LISTEN TO THE ARCHIVE OF THIS SHOW: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unredacted/2014/11/05/unredacted-veteran-cia-officer-russianusa-double-agent-narcissism-expert
NEWEST TRIBUNE COLUMN: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201411041330--tms--amvoicesctnav-a20141104-20141104-column.html
GUEST LINEUP:
"Bob" worked for 26 years as an operations officer for the CIA in South America, Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
W. Keith Campbell, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia, is the author of more than 100 scientific articles, chapters and the books, When You Love a Man Who Loves Himself: How to Deal with a One-way Relationship; The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement (with Jean Twenge); and the The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Findings, and Treatments (with Josh Miller). His work on narcissism has appeared in USA Today, Time, and The New York Times, and he has made numerous radio and television appearances, including The Today Show, NPR’s All Things Considered, and The Glenn Beck Show. He holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA from San Diego State University, and a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and did his postdoctoral work at Case Western Reserve University. www.wkeithcampbell.com
Naveed Jamali: For three nerve-wracking years, Naveed Jamali spied on America for the Russians, trading thumb drives of sensitive technical data for envelopes of cash, selling out his own beloved country across noisy restaurant tables and in quiet parking lots. Or so the Russians believed. In fact, this young American civilian was a covert double agent working with the FBI. The Cold War wasn’t really over. It had just gone high-tech.
How to Catch a Russian Spy is the one-of-a-kind story of how one young man’s post-college adventure became a real-life US counter-intelligence coup. He had no previous counter-espionage experience. Everything he knew about undercover work, he’d learned from Miami Vice and Magnum P.I. reruns and movies like Ronin, Spy Game, and anything with Bond or Bourne in the title. And yet, hoping to gain experience to become a Navy intelligence officer, he convinced the FBI and the Russians they could trust him. With charm, cunning, and a big load of naiveté, he matched wits with a veteran Russian military-intelligence officer who was recruiting spies on American soil, out-maneuvering the Russian spy and his secret-hungry superiors. Along the way, Jamali and his FBI handlers cast a rare light on espionage activities at the Russian Mission to the United Nations in New York and earned a solid US win in the escalating hostilities between Moscow and Washington.
Now, Jamali reveals the whole engaging story behind his double-agent adventure—from coded signals on Craigslist to the Russian spy’s propensity for Hooters’ Buffalo wings. Cinematic, news-breaking, and wildly entertaining, How to Catch a Russian Spy is an armchair spy fantasy brought to life. Film rights sold to Twentieth Century Fox for director Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man, 500 Days of Summer).
After his successful run as a civilian double agent, Naveed Jamali accepted a reserve commission in the US Navy. He has spent more than a decade in technology management at a senior level. He continues to advise and speak on matters of security, counter-intelligence, and understanding the motivation to spy. A life-long New Yorker, Naveed lives in New York City with his wife and two sons. He has no intention of travelling to Russia any time soon. www.naveedjamali.com