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Reports
2020
Apr
28
Past Event
Webinar: Becoming Kim Jong Un — A former CIA officer’s insights into North Korea’s enigmatic young dictator
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Online Only
2019
May
31
Past Event
A conversation with the CIA’s privacy and civil liberties officer: Balancing transparency and secrecy in a digital age
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Washington, DC
2017
Jun
5
Past Event
The exile: The stunning inside story of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida in flight
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Washington, DC
Bruce Riedel
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
Director - The Intelligence Project
[Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry’s vast surveillance apparatus gave it a treasure trove of the kingdom’s secrets.] Their files will be the catalog of every untoward incident, from the truly illegal to the maybe just embarrassing.
It is odd that a DCI who avoids public appearances of any kind would make a public appearance at the most fractious SOTU in our time. The job is being more politicized than it should be.
Anyone who has had communication with either MBS or his brother Khaled should assume their phone is hacked. Congress needs to get answers from NSA on what it knew about the hack of Bezos phone, when it knew it, and what it has done to stop Saudi criminal hacking behavior.
The Saudis are certain to have hacked many more phones to obtain compromising information on their critics, Americans as well as Saudis.