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🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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In this episode, John Solomon discusses a Homeland Security report on evolving terrorist tactics, including lone wolf attacks on soft targets and the use of drones, with retired FBI agent Chris Piehota, author of Wanted: The FBI I Once Knew, Piehota highlights the U.S.'s unpreparedness for these threats, emphasizing the need for proactive measures, better inter-agency collaboration, and a return to core law enforcement priorities.
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0:00.0 | Thanks for listening to the Town Hall Review with Hugh Hewitt podcast, bringing to you the best voices on the stories and issues that matter. |
0:07.5 | Here's another piece I'll trust you enjoy. |
0:10.3 | We just talked about that extraordinary report commissioned about a year ago by the Homeland Security Department warning about sort of change in terrorism tactics. |
0:19.3 | We've seen it over the last decade. |
0:22.2 | Soft targets with crowded locations becoming more and more popular, particularly for lone wolf actors. |
0:28.4 | Yesterday, another example of the concern that is there. I thought I'd bring in one of the |
0:32.6 | FBI's really great experts on this. He retired as executive assistant director in the FBI. He also wrote |
0:39.6 | one of my favorite books of the last year. I just finished reading it over the Christmas holidays. |
0:44.0 | Wanted the FBI I once knew. Joining us right now, a retired special agent, Christopher Piotta. |
0:50.0 | Chris, great to have you on. |
0:51.2 | Thank you, John. Pretty much. A pleasure to be with you in your audience. |
0:54.0 | We love the work you do. We love your book. By Thank you, John. A pleasure to be with you in your audience. We love the work you do. |
0:55.5 | We love your book. |
0:56.3 | By the way, congratulations. |
0:57.7 | A fantastic read. |
0:58.8 | Anyone who wants to fix the great institution at the FBI should read this book |
1:03.0 | because it is brilliantly written. |
1:05.6 | You probably had a little bit of time to absorb yesterday. |
1:08.1 | Two different locations, two different. Apparently, lone wolf |
1:12.5 | factors that we're still trying to understand Vegas a little bit better, but driving cars |
1:16.4 | laden with bombs, one runs over people, one just blows the car up. A new era of terrorism |
1:22.0 | upon us? I think it's a new era for the United States. This type of terrorism has been around for years. |
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