Dan Lamothe

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39 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 12 Aug

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Apple News Today · “Chaos and confusion”: inside the shutdown of El Paso airspace · 12 Feb 2026 podcast

You know, it would be one thing to restrict it for a couple hours for a specific reason.

But a 10-day period of time, that's a major airport, that's a major city.

It just struck people as kind of like completely out of pocket.

The Pentagon was interested in testing counter drone technology, and I think using the counter drone technology.

And we're told it was a laser based technology, basically shooting down drones was the idea.

And FAA was not sufficiently comfortable with how this would work, and whether commercial flights would be safe.

So when they didn't have the level of detail they wanted, we are told that they then restricted the airspace.

They apparently did shoot down a couple things.

There is reporting that they actually ended up shooting down Mylar party balloons.

So not a threat, if that's what it was.

I think when we look forward, the question is going to be, how do you address this?

And that comes around airports, around military bases, around stadiums.

Like there's all kinds of places where you would potentially have a concern with these drones.

Apple News Today · The kitchen tools you should seriously think about throwing out · 21 Nov 2024 podcast

We've got an incoming president who has openly and repeatedly threatened to fire anyone associated with the fall of Afghanistan. We've got a nominee for the defense secretary job in Pete Hegseth, who has said that one of the first things he would do would be to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

So I think at minimum, there's a great deal of apprehension and concern and alarm that I'm hearing from my sources right now in the Pentagon and just kind of around the Defense Department as an institution in general.

And depending on where you fall on that issue, you know, you could be doing an awful lot of housecleaning or more something that's very, you know, targeted.

I think one thing that here that I'm watching for and I'm concerned about just as an American citizen is how do we define who's, quote unquote, to blame for the fall of Afghanistan?

knowing a lot of these senior officers, knowing that they spent years there themselves, and in a lot of cases, managed the operations, tried to take care of their people the best they could, but also had orders to follow. And in many cases, particularly when it came to the end in Afghanistan,

often gritted their teeth and followed the rules and followed the laws, it's got to hit some kind of way for these senior officers, for their families, for Pentagon employees in general who are watching this all play out and kind of feel like they're being scapegoated after the fact.

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