The International Affairs are at the top of the news around the world with hot conflicts and ukraine, gaza, and this a hell and wouldnt be confrontations in the taiwan straits, the red sea and elsewhere. Theres a lot of reporting about various visits of the us secretaries of state and defense and have sensitive negotiations with this country or that. But whats the role of the c i a and all this is that little different now that the c i is led by a professional diplomat. And how different is it now that the c i a is less and intelligence Collection Agency and more a paramilitary body will get the answers to those questions and more with a bona fide expert. Im john kerry, onto welcome to the whistle blowers the. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 the c i a is, are constantly changing and evolving organization in many ways. Thats a good thing. Gone, for example, are the days of illegally experimenting on human beings in a program known as m. K. Ultra also gone are the days when the stated operational direct
International affairs are at the top of the news around the world with hot conflicts and ukraine, gaza, and this a hell and wouldnt be confrontations in the taiwan straits, the red sea and elsewhere, theres a lot of reporting about various visits of the us secretaries of state and defense and sensitive negotiations with this country or that. But whats the role of the c i a and all this is that little different now that the c i is led by a professional and diplomat. And how different is it now that the c i a is less and intelligence Collection Agency and more of paramilitary body will get the answers to those questions and more with a bona fide experts. Im john kerry onto welcome to the whistle blowers the the. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 the c i a is, are constantly changing and evolving organization in many ways. Thats a good thing. Gone, for example, are the days of illegally experimenting on human beings in a program known as m. K. Ultra also gone are the days when the stated operational direct
I a is had more than its fair share failures over the decades. But it has always been an integral part of the National Security and Foreign Policy establishment. Many of us opened in early 2021. That investment or bill burns was an inspired choice to take over the agency. He could be the adult in the room, someone with the institutional respect to be able to tell the president when an idea was a bad one, someone to carry out sensitive negotiations. But is the c i a too far gone to be saved or rehabilitated . And is the National Debt stacked against would be National Security whistle blowers who call out evidence of waste, fraud abuse illegality, and threats to the Public Health and public safety. Our guest today is melvin goodman. Hes a whistleblower and former senior c. I a analyst and is currently a senior fellow at the center for International Policy and a professor of government at Johns Hopkins university. He spent 42 years in National Security at the c. I a, the state department
Fourteen have occurred over the last twelve months you know my fellow you have said to us citizens remember each one of those numbers is an innocent life killed snuffed out loss to our governments Foreign Policy adventures and taxpayer funded weapons of war now let me be clear no one here is arguing that Media Coverage of the outrage and political fallout from the park and School Shooting isnt important it is but if we are truly going to have a conversation about violence in america especially gun violence lets stop ignoring. Those giant elephants in the room and start watching the hawks. It looks like. Its with. The bottom. Like you that i got. With. This. Week. Rather than on the watch of the heart as always our entire world with and as always on tap along well see what happens tomorrow sort of as the bar oh yeah well six hundred shows smorgon six hundred fifty shows and you know as always but there. Is no there is i believe a serious disconnect in not only media but also in culture
Guest i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these Public Officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith goes to washington scenario. And certainly that does happen. You have wellintentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces. But my experience over the last 20 years or so in washington politics researching and writing, more often than not the opposite is true. You have a lot of corporations, other lot of entities that essentially want to be left alone by the federal government, and you have politicians or people in the executive branch who are looking for ways in which to enhance their services or the needs to get corporations involved. The