{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Frealclearinvestigations.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F134-ML91lucO","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"The Rise and Fall of a Super-Terrorist with Joby Warrick| RealClearInvestigations Podcast #134","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/69be5d4f-b498-44bc-b3b5-f614ce9a7957/c19d3626-6cbd-4e68-ab03-9adc21ceb98a/cropped_1789169773370.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/c1f10377-2d4c-4715-b1e9-74c9d9189750\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"The Rise and Fall of a Super-Terrorist with Joby Warrick| RealClearInvestigations Podcast #134\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"On this episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick about his compulsively readable new book, “The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World’s First Super-Terrorist.”\n\nWith the news round-up, Zane and Varney discuss a New York Times article that suggests Vice President J.D. Vance may be highlighting obstacles to the Iran effort; a Wall Street Journal story about an AI researcher who warns computers could destroy humanity; an X post reporting evidence that the Journal piece could be part of an orchestrated campaign against AI; and Paul Sperry’s exclusive article in RCI detailing the government’s decision to parole at least three of the 15 terrorist detainees still held at Guantanamo Bay – men the government labels “high-value detainees” and “forever prisoners.”\n\n00:00 Cold Open: An Earlier Age of Terrorism \n00:50 Welcome & Guest Tease: Joby Warrick on \"The Jackal\" \n01:40 News Roundup: NYT's J.D. Vance \"Unvarnished\" Iran Intel Story \n05:26 Is an AI Doomsday Coming? An Anthropic Researcher's Resignation \n09:58 Can AI Regulation Actually Work? \n12:16 Gitmo's \"Forever Prisoners\" May Be Released (Paul Sperry Exclusive) \n15:54 Introducing Joby Warrick and Why He Wrote \"The Jackal\" \n19:18 Who Was Carlos the Jackal? Origins and the 1975 OPEC Raid \n25:11 The Hijacking Era and How Carlos Evaded Capture for Decades \n30:56 State Sponsors, the Palestinian Cause, and Strange Bedfellows \n37:05 Interrogating Terrorists, Modern Mercenary Attacks, and Meeting Carlos in Prison\n"}