Annie Jacobsen

I think we're talking about this mission that was a success.

What's more interesting to me is what is that going to do now to this president and his authority, perception of authority and his perception of the use of Delta and his perception of the use of the CIA?

Because all of these things lined up in his favor in a manner that is unprecedented.

Or to think that that wasn't just a... A miracle.

But just a bunch of events working at the right... There were 150 aircraft involved.

I mean, the CIA was in...

you know, conducting intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance prior.

There's this strange detail of the president by his own admittance, calling Maduro and, you know, giving him a heads up, which is just how did that work?

We don't know any of this.

We don't know what is actually propaganda or, you know, or call it what you will sort of narrative that you want to tell.

These are interesting times.

That's not unusual at all from what I understand.

OK.

In other words, the guys who I remember, the Jack Ryan writers team going is going back to the, you know, that

Being shocked to learn, and it's a detail I know, but that I had forgotten how interesting it is that the CIA or the military, they work together in situations like this, essentially has the architectural plans of every important building in every foreign country.

And you can fill in the dots.

Why?

That is absolutely correct.

And it's also why I like looking at history to really drill down on these events of the past.

And I do it from documents that are declassified as well as firsthand accounts from the operators who were involved in those missions so that you can become a little bit educated about what might happen in the future.