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Iran's Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons
David Albright
“Viewers, you should read the book”
“let's all agree you're going to read the book. Maybe Lex, you're going to read the book. Viewers, you should read the book. I think David Albbright has done a meticulous job.”— Mark Dubowitz
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Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism
Scott Horton
“it was not even Iranians making those bombs. And I show in my book enough already. I have a solid dozen sources.”— Scott Horton
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Peddling Peril
David Albright
“he has a bunch of books. Peddling Peril, Iran's Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons, Plutonium, and Highly Enriched Uranium, 1996, and so on.”— Lex Fridman
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By Way of Deception
Victor Ostrovsky
“which you can read in the book by Way of Deception by Victor Ostroski, the former MSAD officer, that the Israelis knew that they were building that truck bomb”— Scott Horton
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Manufactured Crisis
Gareth Porter
“in Gareth Porter's book, Manufactured Crisis, he shows that the major conclusion that the uh DIA had made, that the Iranians were researching nuclear weapons”— Scott Horton
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Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
Barton Gellman
“confirmed in the New York Times and by the Washington Post reporter Barton Gelman in his book Angler on Dick Cheney that there was this huge”— Scott Horton
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Imperial Hubris
Michael Scheuer
“Anyone could read Michael's book, the former chief of the CIA bin Laden, imperial hubris and it's about how the number one reason they attacked us was American bases on Saudi soil”— Scott Horton
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Perfect Soldiers
Terry McDermott
“it's on Google books you can read perfect soldiers by Terry McDermott or you could read the looming tower by Lawrence Wright”— Scott Horton
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The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright
“you can read perfect soldiers by Terry McDermott or you could read the looming tower by Lawrence Wright where both of them explained”— Scott Horton
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The Black Banners
Ali Soufan
“the former FBI agent, counterterrorism agent, he wrote in his book, The Black Banners, that the Bin Laden said to Bin Laden”— Scott Horton
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Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan (inferred)
“he's more like is it was it um who was in the Oenheimer movie Lesie Grove um the guy who was actually responsible for the organization and the training”— Mark Dubowitz
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Return of the Jedi
George Lucas (inferred)
“that's still no reason in the world to say that we can't get along with them now when that was in the same year Return of the Jedi came out.”— Scott Horton
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Key & Peele
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele (inferred)
“for people familiar with like Key and Peele, Madv is sort of angry Obama, right, for Putin. You know that skit”— Scott Horton
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