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Decorated Ex-CIA Officer Zeroes In on Terrorists to Keep America Safe | Words That Matter
June 21, 2024
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 Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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About Lee Smith
Join Lee Smith On Words That Matter, A Weekly Investigative Journalism Show That Takes You Behind The Headlines To Reveal What The News Really Means
Lee Smith is a New York Times-bestselling author with more than thirty years’ experience in journalism, covering a wide range of subjects from US foreign policy to crimes and corruption at the highest levels of the American government. A columnist for Epoch Times, Smith has written several books, including The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations, a post-9/11 political travelogue through the Middle East; The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in US History, which was made into an Academy Award-nominated documentary movie; and most recently The Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted the American President.
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