The Secure Line
Summary: The values Americans hold should shape how our country engages with the world. We bring complex issues back to the basic questions of how values affect policy and how the tricky problems of the world can challenge what we believe. Learn what’s important behind the headlines and hear from a diverse set of security policy experts, on-the-ground practitioners with global experience, and political professionals. The Secure Line is co-hosted by David Solimini and sponsored by ADco, LLC.
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After chasing the news about refugee policy and FISA declassification, we sit down with regular Secure Line contributor Tony Johnson to discuss his career in national security.
This is a nerdy episode, folks: The Afghanistan war turns old enough to enlist. Russia’s refusal to admit to the nerve agent poisoning highlights the challenge of attribution in gray-zone conflict. The military must deal with a hurricane. And Tim Kaine wants a new AUMF.
The Secure Line is packed full of goodies this week — we even broke it into segments for the first time in ages. We’ll chase the news on UK charges against Russian GRU operatives for the Novichok attack and Woodward’s book. Then we highlight a story that should have been top news: DHS says the biggest threat to the US is cybersecurity, especially regarding elections, not terrorism. Then we Deep Dive cleaning up after the Trumpster Fire in 2020. The show wraps with a headsup on news and events that are coming down the pike soon. Two stories mentioned: Washington Post: Hacking, cyberattacks now the biggest threat to U.S., Trump’s Homeland Security chief warns, by Nick Miroff. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hacking-cyberattacks-now-the-biggest-threat-to-us-trumps-homeland-security-chief-warns/2018/09/05/d0045800-b119-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html?utm_term=.b4bd6fe13be4 Foreign Policy: Planning for the Post-Trump Wreckage by Stephen Walt: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/30/planning-for-the-post-trump-wreckage/
We react to the passing of John McCain and discuss his position at a turning point in his party. Then an update on ongoing NAFTA renegotiations before a deep dive into Google’s plans to offer a censored search engine in China and its broader implications. We close out with updates on Yemen and Myanmar. *** Just two weeks left to take the 2 minute listener survey! http://www.thesecureline.com/survey/
We’re back! Dave, Tony and Xander review the president’s legal troubles before a deep dive on thinking about cybersecurity. Then we touch on Yemen and a bit on the response to the president revoking John Brennan’s security clearance. Also: have you taken the 2 minute listener survey? http://www.thesecureline.com/survey/
Have you taken our 2 minute listener survey! http://www.thesecureline.com/survey/ A bonus mini episode: Our August break continues here in Secure Line land, but in response to the news, here’s a brief explanation of how sanctions work in light of this week’s news that the US will be re-imposing sanctions on Iran.
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Take our 2 MINUTE listener survey! http://www.thesecureline.com/survey/ Episode 55: We dive into security clearances, what it means to revoke one as the White House has threatened of its critics, and why that’s a horrible idea. Then it’s onto the now-postponed Putin visit, the threat against Ambassador Mike McFaul, and we end with Dave’s week thinking about China. Take our 2 MINUTE listener survey! http://www.thesecureline.com/survey/
The president heads to the NATO summit and the UK for some super-awkward meetings. We dig into the problems caused by weak political parties in democracies around the world, and — Bonus! — you get our recommendations on Ethiopian food in DC. We also troll Tony for missing this week’s recording. No episode next week; Dave’s on work travel. But we’re back the week after. Episode 54
NATO meets next week. Becky shares the experiences that shape her thinking about immigration policy. And Dave’s thinking about the 50th anniversary of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty.
Episode 52: We get an update on the growing humanitarian crisis in Yemen. The Supreme Court decided cases related to government searches of some personal records and the Muslim travel ban. And the good news is about…. Ebola?
The Secure Line begins year two! We get a deep dive into the international law on refugees and asylum in light of immigration events. Then we discuss the UN Human Rights Council, getting gaslit on the North Korea summit, and the President’s order to create a Space Force. Xander also explains why no country can own the Moon.
The President blows up the G7 meeting before heading to a backslapping good time with Kim Jung-un. And the US government is separating children from their parents when they cross the southern border, including people with legal asylum claims. This week was so nuts, the *good* news comes from Afghanistan.
This week: Reports from the Shangri-la Dialogue, the Trump-Kim Summit approaches, the view of American democracy from outside, and we learn the term for a group of pandas.
The big story this week are the tariffs on steel and aluminum levied against some of America’s closest allies — and how they’re retaliating. We also cover the White House’s attempts to salvage the North Korea Summit, new data on deaths from last year’s hurricane in Puerto Rico, and what Caitlin thinks of Dinesh D’Souza.
