Jad Abumrad
speaker
6,321 appearances
21 recordings
5 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Sep
Jad Abumrad’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Either way would have been bad, says David Sharp.
David says we wanted them to worry.
This is the Cold War.
We might as well make them think we found something.
And they couldn't do that.
Well, because this is 1974.
This is the year of Watergate.
This is the year that Congress rakes the entire federal security apparatus over the coals.
This is also the year they revisit something called the Freedom of Information Act.
FOIA.
Actually, FOIA had been around for a while, but that's when FOIA finally got some teeth.
The law says anybody, any American, should be able to ask the government for documents, and the government has to respond.
It has to.
Fork over that information.
Walt's not a huge fan of this law.
The way Walt sees it, the CIA's job is to keep secrets.
And keeping secrets keeps America safe.
In fact, every CIA employee is legally bound to protect something called... Intelligent sources and methods.
It's not an option.
It's a law.
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