Decorated Ex-CIA Officer Zeroes In on Terrorists to Keep America Safe | Words That Matter

Peter Theroux’s new memoir “In Obscura” recounts how a pillar of America’s most famous literary family (brothers Paul and Alexander, novelists, and nephew Justin, screenwriter and movie star) went from rubbing elbows with Hollywood starlets to tracking American enemies in the Middle East. He tells Lee Smith that despite the bad press and partisan officials, America’s front-line spies are fighting to keep our country safe.

• 01:40 Peter Theroux, ex-CIA officer, author “In Obscura”
• 03:11 Highly decorated intelligence officer’s new his new book
• 04:05 Eldest brother was also a CIA officer
• 06:01 US intelligence agencies an interrogation techniques 
• 07:09 Is waterboarding torture?
• 11:42 Biden was hard to brief in Baghdad 
• 15:42 Who killed Iranian terror master Qassem Soleimani?
• 16:33Theroux worked on Iran file as a “targeter”
• 21:35: Theroux: Qassem Soleimani is reckless psychopath 
• 23:27 CIA shrinks study foreign leaders and terrorists
• 25:52 What is Iran’s role in Gaza and Lebanon? 
• 28:19 CIA dedicated to serving USA, despite partisan criticism

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