Target USA Podcast by WTOP

Target USA Podcast by WTOP


Latest Episodes

Target USA -- Episode 111: Britain and the US target Russia over poisoning and other attacks
April 04, 2018

Michael Tatham, Britain's deputy ambassador to the U.S., warns Russia "to stop testing Western countries in aggressive, counterproductive ways that increase international tension." If Russia doesn't, cooperate, former CIA...

Target USA -- Episode 110: American businessman Bill Browder says the Kremlin is trying to kill him, too
March 28, 2018

In the wake of the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in the United Kingdom, Hermitage Capital Management CEO Bill Browder tells Target USA, "The Russians are doing everything they can try to get me, to try to kill me, to try...

Target USA -- Episode 109: Poisoning of former double agent in Britain triggers new Cold War
March 21, 2018

A new and bitter schism between Russia and the west over the poisoning of a former double agent has opened up, and it could have lethal consequences. On this episode, British Prime Minister Theresa May, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations...

Target USA -- Episode 108: The next generation of terrorism, it's coming. So, how is the State Department preparing?
March 14, 2018

Terrorism is shifting into a new phase. U.S. Department of State Counterterrorism Coordinator Nathan Sales says terrorists are getting smarter -- using previous attacks as blueprints. But with the Islamic State group waning, al-Qaida- and...

Target USA -- Episode 107: 25 years after the first World Trade Center attack, why soft targets are still a problem?
March 07, 2018

On this episode, we hear the survival stories from the day in 1993 when "the earth shook" and thick black smoke filled New York's iconic World Trade Center. Six people died and more than a thousand were injured during an attack...

Target USA -- Episode 106: Putin's motivation for election meddling
February 28, 2018

What's Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motivation for interfering in U.S. elections? U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., a senior member of the Senate foreign relations committee, tells Target USA that Putin is, perhaps, the richest man...

Target USA -- Episode 105 | Russian election interference: Version 2018
February 21, 2018

Former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers tells Target USA that in the 1960s Russian intelligence used leaflets and pamphlets to try to interfere in U.S. affairs. But in 2016, the internet, bots, trolls and Americans'...

Target USA -- Episode 104: Former CIA director Mike Hayden takes us inside the Russian threat to the US
February 14, 2018

Having served as a four-star Air Force General and as director of the National Security Agency and the CIA , very few people know more about how Russia's new Cold War-like behavior will impact the U.S. Former CIA director Mike Hayden...

Target USA -- Episode 103: Interview with David Pekoske, administrator of the TSA
February 07, 2018

Two things keep David Pekoske, head of the Transportation Security Administration, awake at night. Worrying about the 60,000-plus men and women on the front lines of the TSA is one. The other, Pekoske says, is "people that we don’t...

Target USA -- Episode 102: North Korea's Olympic motives spark suspicion
February 01, 2018

Grace Jo escaped from North Korea in 2006, but not before her grandmother, father and four siblings died of starvation or simply disappeared while out searching for food. Now with the start of the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea...