Target USA Podcast by WTOP

Target USA Podcast by WTOP


Latest Episodes

Target USA - Ep 31 - Fragile, Ambitious and Nuclear
September 22, 2016

There is a laundry list of threats facing the U.S. Some are more urgent than others. In this episode of Target USA, two of the most trusted former intelligence officials in Washington lay out the problems - from North Korea to China to...

Target USA - Ep 30 - The Terrorism Loophole in the U.S. Postal Service
September 14, 2016

The gut-wrenching events of the September 11 attacks triggered an unprecedented effort to insulate the U.S. homeland from foreign terrorists and prevent attacks like those from ever happening again. The Department of Homeland Security was...

Target USA - Ep 29 - Terrorism is Being Crowdsourced
September 07, 2016

On this episode of Target USA, former CIA Director Michael Hayden explains why the problem of finding terrorists is getting worse in the United States. In the 2000s, Hayden says the U.S. intelligence community essentially knew what the...

Target USA - Ep 28 - ISIL Suffers a Near Fatal Blow
August 31, 2016

Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, architect of ISIL's external operations and its spokesman, was killed in a U.S. airstrike on Aug. 30. His death represents the biggest setback to the organization since it launched its murderous rampage in June...

Target USA - Ep 27 - DC Cops are Targets
August 25, 2016

You've no doubt heard about the attacks on police and other law enforcement officers across the country. What seems like a wave of police-related killings has swept the nation, and as D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier prepares to step...

Target USA - Ep 26 - New Intelligence Warns: DC Targets Top Terrorists Lists
August 18, 2016

D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier sat down with Target USA to talk about the serious and growing terror threats. She details what's being done to prepare for and neutralize the threats.

Target USA - Ep 25 - A Warning for ISIL After the Yazidi Genocide
August 11, 2016

Two years after the genocide, the region is still blanketed with millions of shattered and interrupted lives. One of those lives belongs to Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, the Representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government to the U.S. She...

Target USA - Ep 24 - The Sinjar Massacre - Two Years Later
August 04, 2016

Two years after 5,000 Yazidi men were killed and more than 5,000 women and children were kidnapped and turned into sex slaves during a genocidal bloodbath carried out by ISIL in Northern Iraq, many are still unaccounted for, and 3,200 women...

Target USA - Ep 23 - Blame-and-Claim Terror Cycle Drives New Attacks
July 28, 2016

What's behind ISIL's wave of attacks in Europe? Is the U.S. next? The attacks are mostly conducted by radicalized individuals. Where are they finding these people? Why is ISIL's call being answered by so many people that are...

Target USA - Ep 22 - Police in the US Under Fire
July 21, 2016

As of July 20, 31 law enforcement officers have been shot to death in the U.S. this year, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. That's a 72 percent increase over last year at this time. Former policeman and...