Mike Baker is joined by former Senior CIA Operations Officer Douglas London to analyze Israel’s bold operation to blow up thousands of Hezbollah’s beepers. They discuss whether it was the best decision to destroy the devices or if they could have been better used for intelligence-gathering and spying on Hezbollah’s activities. Could Israel have gained valuable insights by exploiting the beepers instead of eliminating them?
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