#238 - The CIA's Global Assassin Network is Getting Out of Control | Sean Naylor

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🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Sean Naylor is the National Security Correspondent who covers intelligence and counterterrorism for Foreign Policy. As an embedded reporter, he has covered U.S. military operations in Somalia, Haiti, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq, and is the author of two New York Times bestselling books. Sean now runs The High Side Substack with Jack Murphy: https://thehighside.substack.com SPONSORS https://www.rhone.com/danny - Upgrade your closet with Rhone and use DANNY to save 20% https://buy.ver.so/danny - Use code DANNY to save 15% on your first order. https://whiterabbitenergy.com/?ref=DJP - Use code DJP for 20% off EPISODE LINKS https://thehighside.substack.com https://twitter.com/SeanDNaylor Relentless Strike: https://bit.ly/44JtoR1 Not a Good Day to Die: https://bit.ly/3wEMQli FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 00:00 - Government control of media 13:35 - Sources 24:02 - Secret Service in Ukraine 32:49 - CIA unlawful killing in Kenya 42:09 - Current CIA presence in Africa 46:49 - US assassination law 01:08:24 - Sean's background 01:16:40 - Operation Anaconda 01:36:20 - Warzone journalism 01:40:10 - Michael Hastings mysterious death 01:47:11 - Covert action in Afghanistan 02:01:35 - Opinions vs real journalism 02:08:01 - CIA / Julian Assange story Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, Sean.
0:08.3	Thank you for coming on the podcast, man.
0:09.9	Hey, it's great to be here.
0:11.1	Thank you.
0:11.8	Yeah.
0:12.0	In sunny, Seminole, Florida.
0:13.8	Yeah.
0:14.3	You came highly recommended from my friend Jack Murphy, who's been on the podcast before.
0:18.6	And you guys are working together on a
0:21.0	substack project called The Highside? That's correct. Jack and I started this about a little more than a
0:29.3	year ago now. It's called The Highside. It's on Substack, so the web address is thehighside.substack.com,
0:37.2	and it's really an outlet for our investigative reporting.
0:42.1	Occasionally we'll have a sort of a scoop that's very immediate and we'll put that out.
0:50.0	But our general rule of thumb is that it's got to be national security related,
0:56.5	which in our case normally means it's either special operations or intelligence related.
1:02.7	And it's got to be information that our readers won't have found elsewhere in the story.
1:11.6	Because we do ask people to pay for it.
1:14.6	And so if we're gonna ask people to pay for it,
1:17.6	I feel like we need to be giving them something
1:20.6	that they can't find elsewhere.
1:22.6	Now, you guys report on national security,
1:25.6	special operations, covert ops.
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