Episode 234: Matthew Cole

Published: March 1, 2017, 7:23 p.m.

b'Matthew Cole is an investigative reporter at The Intercept, where he recently published \\u201cThe Crimes of Seal Team 6.\\u201d\\n\\n \\u201cI\\u2019ve gotten very polite and very impolite versions of \\u2018go fuck yourself.\\u2019 I used to have a little sheet of paper where I wrote down those responses just as the vernacular that was given to me: \\u2018You\\u2019re a shitty reporter, and I don\\u2019t talk to shitty reporters.\\u2019 You know, I\\u2019ve had some very polite ones, [but] I\\u2019ve had people threaten me with their dogs. Some of it is absolutely cold.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to Squarespace, Blue Apron, and MailChimp for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n@matthewacole\\nmatthewacole.com\\nCole on Longform\\n[02:45] "The Crimes of Seal Team 6" (The Intercept \\u2022 Jan 2017)\\n[18:45] "SEAL Team 6: A Secret History of Quiet Killings and Blurred Lines" (Mark Mazzetti, Nicholas Kulish, Christopher Drew, Serge F. Kovaleski, Sean D. Naylor, and John Ismay \\u2022 New York Times \\u2022 Jun 2015)\\n[21:00] "NBC Suspends Brian Williams for Six Months Over Iraq Helicopter Story" (Rory Carroll \\u2022 Guardian \\u2022 Feb 2015)\\n[27:45] "How the NSA Plans to Infect \\u2018Millions\\u2019 of Computers With Malware" (Ryan Gallagher and Glenn Greenwald \\u2022 The Intercept \\u2022 Mar 2014)\\n[35:15] "Adam Bruckner Was a Soccer Journeyman Searching For a Home. Along the Way, He Wound Up Solving a Murder" (ESPN Magazine \\u2022 Jul 2012)\\n[36:15] "Between Heaven and Hell" (ESPN Magazine \\u2022 Jun 2006)\\n[38:00] "Killing ourselves in Afghanistan" (Salon \\u2022 Mar 2008)\\n[39:45] "The Spy Who Said Too Much" (Steve Coll \\u2022 New Yorker \\u2022 Apr 2013)\\n[45:30] "Report: Two CIA Black Site Prisons in Lithuania" (ABC News \\u2022 Dec 2009)\\n[47:45] "US Diplomat SMeared by \\u2018Sex Tape\\u2019" (ABC News \\u2022 Sep 2009)\\n[53:00] "Who Shot Bin Laden? A Tale of Two SEALs" (With Anna R. Schecter \\u2022 NBC News \\u2022 Nov 2014)\\n[57:30] "\\u2018American Sniper\\u2019 Chris Kyle Distorted His Military Record, Documents Show" (Intercept \\u2022 May 2016)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'