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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 – Ep 44: Attack in Berlin and NATO’s Plans
Target USA – Ep 44: Attack in Berlin and NATO’s Plans
On Dec. 19, a large truck plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin. At the time, German journalist Marc Etzold was at the movies with his mobile phone offline. When he emerged from the cinema, he - like many in Germany and ...
Target USA – Ep 43 – ISIL 2.0: Coming Soon
Target USA – Ep 43 – ISIL 2.0: Coming Soon
ISIL is under pressure all around the world, but former CIA counterterrorism executive Phil Mudd says the group is re-inventing itself and the threat of attack could be greater than ever before. He warns that the group is headed to ungoverned or ...
Target USA – Ep 42 – Russia secretly targets the U.S.
Target USA – Ep 42 – Russia secretly targets the U.S.
Russia has made it very clear since the fall of the USSR that it would get revenge against the West and the U.S. for what happened. For years, many U.S. officials have said the Cold War is over. However, in ...
Target USA – Ep 41 – NATO: Confronting the Future
Target USA – Ep 41 – NATO: Confronting the Future
Since its inception in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has helped member countries rest easy in the face of threats. But with the resurgence of Russian aggression, hybrid warfare, cyber warfare and many other global threats, NATO's leaders are doubling ...
Target USA – Ep 40 – Escape from North Korea: The Dramatic Story of Grace Jo
Target USA – Ep 40 – Escape from North Korea: The Dramatic Story of Grace Jo
We often hear about the harsh life North Koreans live under the Kim regime, from Kim Il Sung, to Kim Jong Il and now Kim Jong Un. It's the most reclusive and closed off country on the planet. Close to 25 million ...
Target USA – Ep 39 – President-Elect Trump and the Intelligence Community
Target USA – Ep 39 – President-Elect Trump and the Intelligence Community
During a raucous presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada in October, then-candidate Donald Trump indicated he had doubts about the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Russia was behind many of the cyberattacks that they believed were launched to interfere with the ...
Target USA – Ep 38 – The Fight for Mosul
Target USA – Ep 38 – The Fight for Mosul
Two years after ISIL - or D'aesh, as Iraqis call it - blasted into power, stealing hundreds of millions of dollars, taking over the country's second largest city, killing tens of thousands of people and injecting fear into the fabric of a ...
Target USA – Ep 37 – The Rise of Female Terrorists
Target USA – Ep 37 – The Rise of Female Terrorists
Female terrorists are not a new idea, but the Islamic State terror group has initiated a dramatic increase in their numbers. Irfan Saeed, Director of the State Department's Countering Violent Extremism Office, Tara Maller, Spokesperson & Senior Policy Adviser at the Counter ...
Target USA – Ep 36 – The Epic Battle for Mosul
Target USA – Ep 36 – The Epic Battle for Mosul
An apocalyptic scene is unfolding in Mosul, Iraq's second largest city. Large sulfur fires and huge pits of oil are burning. Buildings are booby trapped, hundreds of suicide bombers are on the loose. Hundreds of thousands of people in Mosul may be ...
Target USA – Ep 35 – Understanding How Terrorists Use Social Media
Target USA – Ep 35 – Understanding How Terrorists Use Social Media
Seamus Hughes is among a growing number of terrorism experts that have realized today's terrorists are far more savvy at using social media to support their activities than counter-terrorism authorities are at using social media to disrupt them. He lays out the ...