The Intelligence of Intelligence Disclosures

Episode #81

On this week’s episode, Bill and Phil reflect on the thinking behind the US’s intelligence disclosures on a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, whether Republicans are living within a lie, and if Trump’s mishandling of documents might prove to be a big problem. Then we wrap up with a game of “What’s More Stupid?”

Links related to this week’s episode:

• “To Reveal, Or Not to Reveal: The Calculus Behind U.S. Intelligence Disclosures” by Douglas London in Foreign Affairs

• “On Ukraine, U.S. and Russia Wage Signaling War to Avert Actual War” by Max Fisher in The New York Times

• “The Power of the Powerless” by Vaclav Havel

• “Trump Has Made Alternative Facts a Way of Life” by Peter Wehner in The New York Times

• “The GOP is suddenly running scared from Trump's Big Lie” by Heather Digby Parton in Salon

• “Will Trump’s Obsession with His Big Lie Save Biden and the Democrats?” by John Cassidy in The New Yorker

• “McConnell Denounces R.N.C. Censure of Jan. 6 Panel Members” by Jonathan Weisman and Annie Karni in The New York Times

• “Some Trump records taken to Mar-a-Lago clearly marked as classified, including documents at ‘top secret’ level” by Jacqueline Alemany, Devlin Barrett, Matt Zapotosky, and Josh Dawsey in The Washington Post

• Lindsey Chervinsky’s Twitter thread on Trump’s Documents

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