2024-12-03
43 分钟An episode from In the Room with Peter Bergen. Longtime national security analyst Peter Bergen looks at what President-elect Trump’s return to the White House will likely mean for intelligence gathering as we know it – and whether the conservative Project 2025 will turn out to be the new intelligence gathering playbook. This story was originally released before the November election.
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We have something really cool this week.
It's a story from a podcast called in the Room with Peter Bergin.
Peter is a bit of a legend in national security circles, and he's been a friend and colleague for years.
Just before the election, he had this thoughtful podcast episode about how America's intelligence apparatus would likely change during a second Trump presidency.
We've already caught a glimpse of that in the planning documents from the Trump camp.
And now the president elect has put forward some surprising picks for some key intelligence roles in his administration.
Take a listen to this episode of in the Room.
If there was a unifying thread running through Donald Trump's public appearances as president, it was that Trump regularly did things and said things in front of reporters that no president had ever said or done before.
Remember that time Trump told reporters that he was considering having the US Government buy the rather large island of Greenland?
Essentially, it's a large real estate deal, and strategically, for the United States, it would be nice.
But for the American intelligence community, there's one particular instance of Trump talking to the press that stands out from all the rest.
It was a joint news conference held by Trump and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
This was in 2018, right after a summit meeting they just held in Helsinki, Finland.
They emerged together, the President of the.
United States standing side by side with the president of Russia, addressing the world.
And pointing pointed questions about Russia's interference in America's election.
The summit came at a tense moment.
Just three days earlier, the U.S.