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Michael Weiss

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The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

You've seen what Putin will do when the U.S. government is not working against their own assets. I mean, look at what he's attempted to do on U.S. soil with respect to defectors here. Look at what he did to Sergei Skripal, who was an MI6 agent.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

You've seen what Putin will do when the U.S. government is not working against their own assets. I mean, look at what he's attempted to do on U.S. soil with respect to defectors here. Look at what he did to Sergei Skripal, who was an MI6 agent.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

After he had him in custody in a Russian prison for many years, pardoned him, released him in a prisoner trade, he still dispatched agents, officers rather, to go and poison him with a military-grade nerve agent years later, right? So you already have that kind of

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

After he had him in custody in a Russian prison for many years, pardoned him, released him in a prisoner trade, he still dispatched agents, officers rather, to go and poison him with a military-grade nerve agent years later, right? So you already have that kind of

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

After he had him in custody in a Russian prison for many years, pardoned him, released him in a prisoner trade, he still dispatched agents, officers rather, to go and poison him with a military-grade nerve agent years later, right? So you already have that kind of

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

damper on going to work for the other side now all of a sudden you have a credible suspicion that people who are working at very high levels of the american intelligence community aren't exactly kosher and might be secretly or not so secretly um sympathetic to the government you're trying to betray this is going to have an impact it probably already has done you know and what about the intelligence sharing with our allies i think it's a potential issue right

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

damper on going to work for the other side now all of a sudden you have a credible suspicion that people who are working at very high levels of the american intelligence community aren't exactly kosher and might be secretly or not so secretly um sympathetic to the government you're trying to betray this is going to have an impact it probably already has done you know and what about the intelligence sharing with our allies i think it's a potential issue right

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

damper on going to work for the other side now all of a sudden you have a credible suspicion that people who are working at very high levels of the american intelligence community aren't exactly kosher and might be secretly or not so secretly um sympathetic to the government you're trying to betray this is going to have an impact it probably already has done you know and what about the intelligence sharing with our allies i think it's a potential issue right

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

Look, there is no closer intelligence relationship in the world than that between the United States and the United Kingdom, right? I mean, the Anglo-American special relationship, I would say, starts there at the intelligence level. It's almost like we are one country in that respect.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

Look, there is no closer intelligence relationship in the world than that between the United States and the United Kingdom, right? I mean, the Anglo-American special relationship, I would say, starts there at the intelligence level. It's almost like we are one country in that respect.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

Look, there is no closer intelligence relationship in the world than that between the United States and the United Kingdom, right? I mean, the Anglo-American special relationship, I would say, starts there at the intelligence level. It's almost like we are one country in that respect.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

I have heard from people who, former but not so former, on the British side, we are probably not going to be giving everything, knowing some of the people who are coming in now. That is, I mean, I wish you had somebody who's worked in, say, the CIA or the NSA on the podcast next to me, because I'd love to hear their reaction to that. That is a staggering development.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

I have heard from people who, former but not so former, on the British side, we are probably not going to be giving everything, knowing some of the people who are coming in now. That is, I mean, I wish you had somebody who's worked in, say, the CIA or the NSA on the podcast next to me, because I'd love to hear their reaction to that. That is a staggering development.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

I have heard from people who, former but not so former, on the British side, we are probably not going to be giving everything, knowing some of the people who are coming in now. That is, I mean, I wish you had somebody who's worked in, say, the CIA or the NSA on the podcast next to me, because I'd love to hear their reaction to that. That is a staggering development.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

And that's just the UK, which, as I say, I mean, other countries that don't have as close of a relationship with the United States are also going to feel very much the same way. I mean, I've been hearing from people in NATO intelligence services, particularly after the Gabbard appointment, you know, what the fuck is happening?

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

And that's just the UK, which, as I say, I mean, other countries that don't have as close of a relationship with the United States are also going to feel very much the same way. I mean, I've been hearing from people in NATO intelligence services, particularly after the Gabbard appointment, you know, what the fuck is happening?

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

And that's just the UK, which, as I say, I mean, other countries that don't have as close of a relationship with the United States are also going to feel very much the same way. I mean, I've been hearing from people in NATO intelligence services, particularly after the Gabbard appointment, you know, what the fuck is happening?

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

So let's put it this way. This did not happen... This is a very opportunistic set of events, which I think I wrote a piece with my ISIS book co-author Hassan Hassan. We call it a unique concatenation of circumstances. So let's start there. Number one, what's happened in the region over the last year? Well, Iran has... fallen apart.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

So let's put it this way. This did not happen... This is a very opportunistic set of events, which I think I wrote a piece with my ISIS book co-author Hassan Hassan. We call it a unique concatenation of circumstances. So let's start there. Number one, what's happened in the region over the last year? Well, Iran has... fallen apart.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

So let's put it this way. This did not happen... This is a very opportunistic set of events, which I think I wrote a piece with my ISIS book co-author Hassan Hassan. We call it a unique concatenation of circumstances. So let's start there. Number one, what's happened in the region over the last year? Well, Iran has... fallen apart.