Our guest is the brave woman from Somalia who has – to understate the case – courted some danger in criticizing and leaving Islam. A former member of the Dutch parliament, she has recently been disinvited as commencement speaker at Brandeis University. Her appearance on our program in 2007 is memorable for the depth of her analysis and the force of her life story.

In a program from 2002, the CIA’s masters of disguise explain their craft and tell some great espionage stories.

Vernon Walters wound up as second-in-command at the CIA after a long career stranger than fiction. Here he is talking with Milt in 1978 and recounting, among many other things, his involvement in Watergate.

From 2009, Milt talks with former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Richard Myers.

David Satter, Russian correspondent, recently kicked out of Russia by Putin (the first American journalist since the end of the Cold War) talks to us about the real meaning of the Ukrainian “crisis.” His expulsion was clearly due to his knowing and saying too much.