Years. I Cover National Security including the fbi and ive recorded extensively on the fbi russia investigation known as crossfire hurricane. I want to thank pete for coming on and have this frank discussion. Im interested how he came to use that codename. Before we get into the details of the book, pete, why dont you tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and your counterintelligence background at the fbi. I was in boston worked on the case which on a series of russian illegals which formed the basis of past Television Show the americans but did a variety of the bread and butter counterintelligence work that occurs in a midsized office, russia, china, espionage. And then after being a street agent started moving up the management chain. I was the number two of all the fbi counterintelligence operations. Before we launch into the book, describe a little bit about the difference of counterintelligence investigation and what a criminal investigation is of the fbi. I think that ha
Interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. All afterwards programs are also available as podcasts. Adam hi my name is adam. I worked with the hard times times for about four years. Ive covered National Security including the fbi in a reported extensively on the fbis russia investigation. Its known as crossfire hurricane. On a think piece for coming on and having his frank discussion with me. He actually came up with the name crossfire hurricane. So much and how he came to use that code name. But before we get into the details of the book, that you have written about. One is you tell us a little bit about yourself and your Counter Intelligence back out of the fbi. Peter first thank you to cspan for hosting. I started in the in 1996. Ive been in the army prior to that and then college. When into activeduty and then was with the fbi as an analyst with domestic terrorism back in 96. I saw the organization and the ages in a new but that was absolutely what i wanted to be d
Some small plane had lost its way and hit one of the World Trade Center towers. Obviously, within a short time after that, we understood that it was a big plane and it was a deliberate attack. I never made it to new york that day. Dayd to defer my trip one while we dealt with the chaos that was created by the attack. David talk about that chaos for a moment. Obviously we lost power throughout southern manhattan. A lot of markets went down there was concern about the payment system, for example. Harvey the problem was the damage that was done was quite extensive. Was figuring out how extensive the damage was, and what the protocol should be forgetting the markets back to a normal state. We immediately decided to shut down the security market. With thet in tandem then chairman of the new york Stock Exchange, and who became my constant telephone buddy throughout the week we had to deal with the wreckage that was caused by the attack. David how could you get information those first hours .
The east canyon fire in southern colorado is 0 contained with a red flag warning for critical fire conditions. Its burned 2,800 acres and firefighters are trying to keep it from spreading south. It was sparked by lightning. We turn, now, to a new development in the investigation into the Helicopter Crash in calabasas, california, back in january that killed kobe bryant. A new report is shedding new light on the events leading up to that deadly crash. Heres abcs adrienne bankert. Reporter the new report on the crash that killed kobe bryant, his 13yearold daughter gianna, and seven others, including their pilot, who in their final moments told air Traffic Control they were climbing to 4,000 feet. But in reality, they were falling, according to the ntsb, evidence that the veteran pilot may have been disoriented in the fog. This and other details part of more than 1,000 pages of communications now made public, including Text Messages sent from the pilot, zobayan, one of bryants preferred p
Thank you, mr. Chief justice and may it please the court. In 1991, congress enacted the tcpas basic restriction on the placement of automated calls to cell phones. In the years that followed lower courts consistently upheld the constitutionality of that restriction as a contact neutral restriction on the use of calling technologies consumers found particularly intrusive and annoying and the Congress Debt exception in 2015 did not introduce any constitution infirmity into the statutory scheme and that exception is limit to a narrow category of calls that intrude less on Consumer Privacy than the typical automated call and that serve an important counterveiling interest in protecting the federal fisk. Theres been a good deal back and forth in the briefs whether sponedents challenge is properly viewed as one to the exception or to the general automated call restriction. And i think in circumstances like this theres not a right way or wrong way, not a right or wrong challenge to bring, the