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This week on Rational Security, Alan and Scott were joined by co-host emeritus (and Washington Post star reporter) Shane Harris to talk over the week's news! Including:

• \u201cFlight of the Valkyries.\u201d Recently leaked U.S. intelligence reports allege that Wagner Group owner Yevgeniy Prighozin\u2014who has privately and publicly feuded with the Russian military leadership in recent weeks and even threatened to pull his mercenary troops from the conflict\u2014has been in contact with Ukrainian intelligence and offered to share Russian troop positions in exchange for concessions around the disputed city of Bakhmut. Is Prighozin trying to find a path to retreat? What do his actions tell us about the conflict?
• \u201cJerkiye Boy.\u201d Twitter owner Elon Musk has come under criticism for the company\u2019s latest bad call: censoring certain content at the request of the Erdogan government in T\xfcrkiye, just prior to national elections there. How should Twitter have responded to the demands of Turkish officials? And how has Musk\u2019s erratic leadership affected the company\u2019s approach to such issues?
• \u201cBootLichter.\u201d CNN and its CEO Chris Licht are experiencing blowback from the decision to host a town hall with former President Donald Trump before an audience of his supporters, at which he repeated an array of lies about the 2020 election results, the recent judgment finding him liable for sexual battery, and his potential legal exposure for retaining classified documents, among other items. Was CNN in the wrong? How should it handle Trump (and other candidates)?

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