Target USA Podcast by WTOP

Target USA Podcast by WTOP


Latest Episodes

447 | Iran's Election Interference and Ukraine in Kursk
August 28, 2024

Clint Watts, GM of Microsoft's Threat Analysis Center discusses Iran's meddling and Yuriy Sak, Advisor to Ukraine's Minister of Strategic Industries, describes Ukraine's military mission in Russian territory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph

446 | What's behind Ukraine's sudden incursion into Russia?
August 21, 2024

Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Andriy Zagorodnyk explains why Ukraine did it and why Russia can't really stop it.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

445 | Paul Whelan's Release from Russia
August 14, 2024

A retrospective look at some my reporting and podcasts from the time of his arrest in December of 2018, to his release in Late July 2024.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

444 | Russia, China and Cuba unite to taunt, test and spy on the US military
August 07, 2024

Chris Simmons, retired supervisory Counterintelligence Officer with theDefense Intelligence Agency and author talks about why Russia is sending warships to Cuba and why its teaming up with China to fly joint military patrols off the Alaska coast.Learn

443 | Jim Hughes, retired CIA Station Chief speaks out about his life in the shadows and chasing terrorists
July 31, 2024

Hughes talks about his career and key tools the Agency used to get the upper hand on terrorists in the Middle East.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

442 | Iran's plot to kill former President Donald Trump
July 24, 2024

Retired State Department Diplomatic Security agent and official Fred Burton talks about Iran's long history of attacking Americans and it's capabilities. He discusses details of security lapses at the Trump rally and changes that need to be made. Learn mo

441 | The Trump Assassination Attempt
July 17, 2024

Donald Mihalek, retired Senior Secret Service agent discusses what happened, what's likely happening now at Secret Service and what should happen down the road.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

440 | NATO'S 75th Anniversary Summit: Strong Future, Strong Challenges
July 11, 2024

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorsky, paint a picture of the troubling problems facing NATO and how the alliance is meeting the chal

439 | Who is Vladimir Kara-Murza? And why is he locked away in a Russian prison cell?
July 03, 2024

Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza joined us in 2020, after being poisoned twice by Russian intelligence and surviving. That was almost 2 years before he was locked away in a Russia prison. After the killing of Alexei Navalny last year, he's em

438 | The fallout of Vladimir Putin's visit to North Korea
June 26, 2024

Ambassador Joseph Detrani, former Director of the U.S. National Counter Proliferation Center says this is major blow to U.S. efforts to stop North Korea's nuclear weapons pursuits.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices