How a Terror Case Fizzled

SpyTalk by SpyTalk, Jeff Stein

Jun 5, 202655:37Business

Former Gitmo prosecutor Michael Lebowitz takes us inside the nuclear plot that never was. Mike Lebowitz is one of America’s few war-crimes prosecutors with front-line counterterrorism experience. A former senior attorney...

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