Margaret Henoch, a former CIA intelligence officer with over two decades of service, shares her firsthand experience challenging faulty WMD intelligence before the Iraq War. Her story reveals how institutional pressure, confirmation bias, and a lack of critical analysis contributed to one of America's most consequential intelligence failures. • Assigned to review reports from "Curveball," a source claiming Iraq had mobile biological weapons labs • Discovered alarming gaps in basic biographic...
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Margaret Henoch, a former CIA intelligence officer with over two decades of service, shares her firsthand experience challenging faulty WMD intelligence before the Iraq War. Her story reveals how institutional pressure, confirmation bias, and a lack of critical analysis contributed to one of America's most consequential intelligence failures. • Assigned to review reports from "Curveball," a source claiming Iraq had mobile biological weapons labs • Discovered alarming gaps in basic biographic...
From Moscow to MAGA: National Security in the Age of Trump
The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast
2 hours 3 minutes
5 months ago
From Moscow to MAGA: National Security in the Age of Trump
What happens when you sit down with a former CIA station chief who spent 28 years in the shadows protecting America? In this riveting conversation with John Sipher, we pull back the curtain on the secretive world of intelligence operations and examine the fragile state of American democracy. Seifer doesn't mince words about Vladimir Putin, describing him as a dangerous, manipulative former KGB officer who "is absolutely never above using lies, subversion, trickery, or manipulation to get wha...
The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast
Margaret Henoch, a former CIA intelligence officer with over two decades of service, shares her firsthand experience challenging faulty WMD intelligence before the Iraq War. Her story reveals how institutional pressure, confirmation bias, and a lack of critical analysis contributed to one of America's most consequential intelligence failures. • Assigned to review reports from "Curveball," a source claiming Iraq had mobile biological weapons labs • Discovered alarming gaps in basic biographic...
