{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Poisoning of Sergei Skripal | Episode 94","description":"Fred Burton, former deputy chief of counterterrorism at the Diplomatic Security Service and the author of&amp;nbsp;GHOST: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent,&amp;nbsp;Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent\u2019s Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice, and&amp;nbsp;Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi&amp;nbsp;joined me shortly after the&amp;nbsp;attack on&amp;nbsp;Sergei Skripal. Skripal. a former Russian double agent now living in the UK, was poisoned with a Russian&amp;nbsp;novichok nerve agent&amp;nbsp;developed during the Soviet era. We look at the many implications of this brazen attack, security issues surrounding it, and the need for a serious response. ","author_name":"Covert Contact","author_url":"http:\/\/blogsofwar.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/6395279\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/0d88e4\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/19879107"}