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National Delirium: NatSec in Post-9/11 America, from Dubya to Donny
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November 24, 2025
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1:09:01Now PlayingTrent and Caitlin speak with journalist Spencer Ackerman about the CIA, DHS, and other parts of the US government ostensibly protecting us from terrorism. How have they achieved this level of impunity? What are the precedents for the intolerable level of human rights and privacy violations we see today? What have we allowed to be done to the “other” in the past and present?
Resources
Spencer’s upcoming book
Spencer’s Iron Man issue
Homan Square
USS Gerald Ford in Caribbean
Sexual abuse in ICE detention
CIA abusive practices
Susan Sontag
Stellar Wind
"surveillance capitalism"
Palantir and the CIA
"white innocence"
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