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Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, welcome to the Buck Brief. On this episode,

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Speaker 2: my friend Brian Dean Wright. You got two CIA guys

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Speaker 2: diving into the Middle East. I'm going to tell you

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Speaker 2: how it really is and what's really going on and more.

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Speaker 2: Brian also has the Right Report podcast, which I recommend

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Speaker 2: you all go check out and subscribe to yourselves. My

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Speaker 2: CIA brother from another mother, how are you doing.

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Speaker 3: I'm good man, so good to be here. Thanks for

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Speaker 3: having me Ken.

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Speaker 2: Actually, can we talk about one thing before we dive

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Speaker 2: in the Middle East? Do you ever get a little

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Speaker 2: bit frustrated lately on the right? Well, the one thing

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Speaker 2: is because everybody knows, I mean, I went right out

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Speaker 2: of CI, worked for Glenn Beck. I've always been conservative

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Speaker 2: or right wing. Anyone who knew me in real life,

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Speaker 2: I was considered a kind of a right wing loon

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Speaker 2: when I worked at CIA. I mean not in my

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Speaker 2: back to when I was probably about fifteen, I was like,

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Speaker 2: I'm right wing. People now think that CIA they think

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Speaker 2: of it in terms of you're part of some like illuminati,

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Speaker 2: deep state conspiracy and you can't be trusted on the right.

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Speaker 2: I look at them, I'm like, I joined the CIA

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Speaker 2: to join the unit that was trying to hunt and

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Speaker 2: kill Osama bin Laden after nine to eleven. Like, I

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Speaker 2: didn't go in there to be, you know, collected to

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Speaker 2: be the bag man for hunter Biden or something.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: I just kind of want to I want you to

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Speaker 2: address this because whatever, so, oh you can't trust me CIA.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I went into CTC in the bin Laden unit, Like, well,

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Speaker 2: what do you write people to find?

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Speaker 1: Kill them or not? Yeah? Look, I do get this

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Speaker 1: think that there are two different eras. There was an

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Speaker 1: era that you and I joined in, which was back

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Speaker 1: of the day, immediately after nine to eleven. We were

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Speaker 1: we were doing what we needed to do to serve

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Speaker 1: that's tough state at the front gate. You and I

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Speaker 1: remember those days.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there are was a time where CIA had a

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Speaker 2: clear united mission. It did exist is correct.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that is correct, sir. The Trump Russia collusion investigation,

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Speaker 1: I think changed a lot of things. You can probably

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Speaker 1: go back a little earlier than that as well. Some

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Speaker 1: others for the country. It was all about this self,

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Speaker 1: it was my truth. I don't know if you ever

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Speaker 1: I think what was two years ago we had those

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Speaker 1: CIA recruitment ads. They were talking about being intersectional and bipolar,

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Speaker 1: what that means. It sounds like a sofa, But the

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Speaker 1: So yeah, look, I think for the rest of our lives,

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Speaker 2: I just know, Yeah, I look, I wanted us to

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Speaker 2: I see it now more than ever. With the FBI, though,

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Speaker 2: I've got to say, and I had some friends you've

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Speaker 2: top level lost its mind, man, I mean and and

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Speaker 2: and it deserves to lose a lot of the faith

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Speaker 2: already been taking shots at CIA FBI. I don't trust them.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna say I don't trust that FBI anymore.

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Speaker 1: Well, you got to a couple of great special counsel

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Speaker 3: So yes, we all have good reason to say that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's disconcerting. All right, let's let's let's move

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Speaker 2: of ours killed in action in Jordan on a base

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Speaker 2: your own strike from they believe Taibe Hesbala. What should

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Speaker 1: Well, so I think looking a small picture first, Let's

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Speaker 1: we have lost a turns right, So a lot of

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Speaker 1: the Iranians beyond. They just don't believe that we have

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Speaker 1: and so they think they can get away with a lot,

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Speaker 1: So the question is what do we do in terms

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Speaker 1: of this immediate short term response. We can certainly hit

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Speaker 3: We can hit them, We can do that.

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Speaker 1: The Biden Winehouse is trying to find this sort of

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Speaker 1: why are we in the Middle East? Why were those

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Speaker 3: Now, I think for one or two reasons.

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Speaker 3: But I think this bigger picture stuff also should be

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I say to people, I mean the Wall Street

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Speaker 2: which is like you know, suffering silence basically right, no

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but even on those on those first two levels,

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Speaker 2: but they're still going to do this kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: That's I'm not sure how effective it is even as

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Speaker 2: a deterrent effect. You really just want to be able

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Speaker 2: rational level, right, Because I don't think changing the Iranian

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Speaker 2: at ships that that's likely to happen. So how worried

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Speaker 2: are you? People seem to get very energized about the

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Speaker 2: Do you feel like that's overblown?

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Speaker 1: I think that anything is on the table now because

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Speaker 2: Brian, is there one place that you're keeping an eye

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Speaker 2: because Brian, as you know, and I know a lot

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Speaker 1: Do you ever get somebody, do you ever get somebody

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Speaker 2: say college, college level class on intelligence one spy novel?

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Speaker 1: What is it? Oh man, God, Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy.

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Speaker 2: Didn't give me your answer though, what what is the

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Speaker 1: Oh man? Look, I nothing comes to mind, And I'll

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Speaker 2: You like killing me. You gotta give me an answer.

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Speaker 2: What about what about Spy Game with Redford? You got

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Speaker 3: I I you don't like Zero Dark thirty.

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Speaker 2: Zero Dark thirty doesn't get it done for you.

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Speaker 3: Okay, fair enough, Zero Dark three? That was sold. That

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Speaker 2: zero Dark thirty. Very well done for what it was.

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Speaker 1: A man, brother, and I'll tell you a lot of

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Speaker 1: And that's why I hesitate with all of these movies.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I just I never got my exploding

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Speaker 1: About the beautiful Little Lady? Would did you get one

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Speaker 2: Bond girls, I don't even know. I don't even know

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Speaker 2: Right Report with my friend here, mister Bryan Dean. Right, Brian,

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Speaker 2: always a pleasure. We'll talk again soon, Buddy, Thanks for

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