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Target USA

Whether its terrorists, anarchists, cyber criminals or nation states, America has a target on its back. WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green investigates the threats facing the U.S., the people behind them, the agencies fighting them and their impact on Americans.

Latest Episodes

Target USA — Anatomy of a Russian Attack Part 3: Troll farms, IMSI catchers
Target USA — Anatomy of a Russian Attack Part 3: Troll farms, IMSI catchers
This is part three of our four-part Target USA series "Anatomy of a Russian Attack on the U.S." In this episode, former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers pulls back the curtain on Russia's troll farm operation, and intelligence expert ...
Target USA — Episode 84: Anatomy of a Russian Attack Part 2: Inside the Russian operation
Target USA — Episode 84: Anatomy of a Russian Attack Part 2: Inside the Russian operation
The U.S. intelligence community has concluded Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered operatives to interfere in the 2016 Presidential election. A Target USA investigation that began in November 2016 examined how the attack happened, when it started, who was involved and what ...
Target USA — Episode 83: Anatomy of a Russian Attack Part 1
Target USA — Episode 83: Anatomy of a Russian Attack Part 1
The U.S. intelligence community has concluded Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered operatives to interfere in the 2016 Presidential election. A Target USA investigation that began in November 2016 examined how the attack happened, when it started, who was involved and what ...
Target USA Episode 82 — 16 years after the 9/11 attacks, worries of new attacks grow
Target USA Episode 82 — 16 years after the 9/11 attacks, worries of new attacks grow
Sixteen years after the worst terror attack in U.S. history, a former senior operations officer with the CIA says, "the situation is even worse." Mike Maness was overseas when the 9/11 attacks took place. But now he says: "As a ...
Target USA — Episode 81: After 6th nuclear test and more possible, who controls North Korea’s nukes?
Target USA — Episode 81: After 6th nuclear test and more possible, who controls North Korea’s nukes?
North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Han Tae Song, said on Sept. 5 that the country's recent nuclear and missile tests "are a gift package addressed to none other than the U.S." The same day, U.S. ...
Target USA — Episode 80: Houston hammered by Hurricane Harvey
Target USA — Episode 80: Houston hammered by Hurricane Harvey
Eleven trillion gallons of water have fallen in the Houston area. Veteran first responders and globally seasoned journalists stand in awe of the scope of the devastation. The damage is unprecedented, according to Texas National Guard spokesperson Lt. Col. Travis Walters. On ...
Target USA — Episode 79: The safety of US diplomats around the world is on the line
Target USA — Episode 79: The safety of US diplomats around the world is on the line
John Eustace retired from the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security in late July. On Target USA, he warns that unless the "leadership" wakes up, a tragedy like the one in Benghazi that left a U.S. ambassador and three others dead ...
Target USA — Episode 78: US diplomats sickened, forced to leave Cuba after invisible attacker struck
Target USA — Episode 78: US diplomats sickened, forced to leave Cuba after invisible attacker struck
"Official" Washington was rattled on Aug. 9 when news broke that U.S. diplomats in Havana had been sickened a mysterious illness that no one could put their finger on. It was so bad that several had to be sent home or ...
Target USA — Episode 77: ‘Alarming rise’ in global crises triggers urgent action in the US intelligence community
Target USA — Episode 77: ‘Alarming rise’ in global crises triggers urgent action in the US intelligence community
The Defense Intelligence Agency is bracing and preparing for "alarming" global changes, which include more frequent and more destructive wars, increasingly damaging cyberattacks, progressively belligerent and hostile nation-states, more clever and deceptive terrorists, and natural disasters that dwarf the scale of those ...
Target USA — Episode 76: Terrorism in 2017 — New terrorism tactics, trends and threats
Target USA — Episode 76: Terrorism in 2017 — New terrorism tactics, trends and threats
The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism has released its latest report on terrorism. The news is good and bad. Acting Coordinator Justin Siberell gave Target USA the most engaging and forthcoming assessment on terrorism to ...