18,000 Terrorists Are Already Living On US Soil. Former CIA Targeting Officer Sarah Adams Explains The Deception Campaigns They Use To Hide And How Al-Qaeda Grew To 200,000 Members
Topics discussed
Intro: Rising terrorism threats and guest introduction
Sarah Adams' background and role as a CIA analyst
Human intelligence skills: Scrappiness and deception detection
Terrorist deception campaigns and capturing a target
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Building trust with detainees and personal assassination plots
Surveillance in the U.S. and FBI intelligence failures
Lax security at high-profile events and White House dinners
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Public vulnerability and the false sense of security
9/11 hindsight and the evolution of Al-Qaeda tactics
The return of shoe bombs and invisible explosives
Al-Qaeda's resurgence, Iran links, and future plots
Outro and final ad breaks
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