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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 34 – Running Out of Time to Stop N. Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Program
Target USA – Ep 34 – Running Out of Time to Stop N. Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Program
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) recently published a report about a grave, worsening global threat - the North Korean nuclear and missile programs. The bottom line: North Korea is rapidly becoming an existential threat to the U.S., and leaders ...
Target USA – Ep 33 – She Saw Something, So She Said Something
Target USA – Ep 33 – She Saw Something, So She Said Something
The Department of Homeland Security campaign urging people to report suspicious activities and packages really does work. Jane Schreibman, who discovered a bomb in New York's Chelsea neighborhood on Sept. 17, probably saved a lot of lives because something about a pressure ...
Target USA – Ep 32 – Online and Undercover: The FBI Chasing Terrorists in Cyberspace
Target USA – Ep 32 – Online and Undercover: The FBI Chasing Terrorists in Cyberspace
Paul Abbate, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office (WFO), is losing a lot of sleep over what he's seeing now. In the last two years, 15 terrorism cases have been brought in the National Capitol Region, according to ...
Target USA – Ep 31 – Fragile, Ambitious and Nuclear
Target USA – Ep 31 – Fragile, Ambitious and Nuclear
There is a laundry list of threats facing the U.S. Some are more urgent than others. In this episode of Target USA, two of the most trusted former intelligence officials in Washington lay out the problems - from North Korea to ...
Target USA – Ep 30 – The Terrorism Loophole in the U.S. Postal Service
Target USA – Ep 30 – The Terrorism Loophole in the U.S. Postal Service
The gut-wrenching events of the September 11 attacks triggered an unprecedented effort to insulate the U.S. homeland from foreign terrorists and prevent attacks like those from ever happening again. The Department of Homeland Security was set up, strict anti-terrorism laws were ...
Target USA – Ep 29 – Terrorism is Being Crowdsourced
Target USA – Ep 29 – Terrorism is Being Crowdsourced
On this episode of Target USA, former CIA Director Michael Hayden explains why the problem of finding terrorists is getting worse in the United States. In the 2000s, Hayden says the U.S. intelligence community essentially knew what the terrorists were going ...
Target USA – Ep 28 – ISIL Suffers a Near Fatal Blow
Target USA – Ep 28 – ISIL Suffers a Near Fatal Blow
Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, architect of ISIL's external operations and its spokesman, was killed in a U.S. airstrike on Aug. 30. His death represents the biggest setback to the organization since it launched its murderous rampage in June of 2014. U.S. ...
Target USA – Ep 27 – DC Cops are Targets
Target USA – Ep 27 – DC Cops are Targets
You've no doubt heard about the attacks on police and other law enforcement officers across the country. What seems like a wave of police-related killings has swept the nation, and as D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier prepares to step down and ...
Target USA – Ep 26 – New Intelligence Warns: DC Targets Top Terrorists Lists
Target USA – Ep 26 – New Intelligence Warns: DC Targets Top Terrorists Lists
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier sat down with Target USA to talk about the serious and growing terror threats. She details what's being done to prepare for and neutralize the threats.
Target USA – Ep 25 – A Warning for ISIL After the Yazidi Genocide
Target USA – Ep 25 – A Warning for ISIL After the Yazidi Genocide
Two years after the genocide, the region is still blanketed with millions of shattered and interrupted lives. One of those lives belongs to Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, the Representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government to the U.S. She tells her emotional ...