Gaining Further Election Insight on Spycraft Interference: Den of Spies from Past to Present Day

with Author Craig Unger

History is like a woven fabric of time and events, and American history has often held to a problematic pattern of denial of past wrongs. Unfortunately, this leads to a weakness in repeating mistakes. We see this from the earliest colonial roots of the nation and who we chose as our heroes to the present moment when many still appear to deny wrongs done on behalf of their own private interests, taking top seats in government. Those in the field of psychology might recognize the difficulty of getting people to live more authentically in the future if they fail to admit truths about the negative actions of the past. Acknowledging and examining the wrongs of history allows for building a more secure and honest future with accountability.  

On this episode of the Influence Continuum, I spoke with Craig Unger, an investigative journalist and the author of Den of Spies, which is described in his biography as “a real-life political thriller about how master spy William Casey put together a treasonous covert operation in 1980 that hijacked American foreign policy and stole the election for Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.” Craig is also the author of six books on the Republican party’s assault on democracy, including American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery. He has written for New York Magazine, The New Republic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, The Independent, and many others.