Target USA Podcast by WTOP
Latest Episodes
Target USA - Ep 11 - Tunisia Asks for US Help to Fight ISIL
Faycal Gouia, Tunisia's Ambassador to the US, tells Target USA that Tunisia has built a 100-mile wall along its border with Libya. It's also installing a sophisticated, partially U.S.-funded surveillance system to keep terrorists...
Target USA - Ep 10 - US Facing Urgent Challenges and Unprecedented Threats
David Cohen, the deputy director of the CIA, says his agency "is working day and night to understand how ISIL's external operations network operates: who's involved, where they are, how they operate and how we can disrupt their...
Target USA - Ep 09 - Terrorists in Possession of NSA Secrets and Taking Action
The information that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and others leaked has created what a top U.S. intelligence official calls a "virtual university" for terrorists, spies, hackers, smugglers and many others seeking to attack...
Target USA - Ep 08 - Belgium Pushes Back After Terror Attack
32 people were killed in Brussels on March 22, 2016. Four Americans were among the dead. Belgian officials say they knew something was coming, but couldn't pinpoint when. For that and other shortcomings, they've been heavily criticized...
Target USA - Ep 07 - The Eye of the Terrorism Storm
Europe has been in the eye of a terrorism storm that many say is just beginning. The Islamic State group has launched sophisticated attacks in Paris and Belgium already and is threatening more. Trying to figure out what's next has pushed...
Target USA - Ep 06 - How many Americans are fighting for ISIL?
The world has been preoccupied with the size of the so-called Islamic State terror organization since it sprang up in 2014. But, for all of that preoccupation, there has been precious little certainty about just how big ISIL is, who's...
Target USA - Ep 05 - Growing Number of Terrorists
The growing number of stealthy terrorists roaming the planet are keeping Nicholas Rasmussen, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, up at night. In part one of an exclusive interview, he says the agency is stretched more "thinly...
Target USA - Ep 04 - ISIS Attacks In Brussels
The surprise attack by ISIS in Brussels, again stunned the world and demonstrated how hard it is to stop them. As a result, the FBI and other U.S. intelligence officials are redoubling efforts to make sure security is air tight - especially...
Target USA - Ep 03 - The North Korean Threat
A chilling examination of the North Korean regime and what's at stake for the U.S. Former Ambassador Joseph Detrani sat across the table from North Korea trying to talk the country down from its nuclear program. He tells host J.J. Green...
Target USA - Ep 02 - Russia Re-Emerges
Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper says in an exclusive interview that he is concerned with Russia's renewed aggressiveness toward the U.S. And, he says, the situation is getting more alarming.