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Conducted under the umbrella of Project Gunrunner, intended to stem the flow of firearms to Mexico, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) ran a series of “gun walking” sting operations, including Operations Wide Receiver and Operation Fast & Furious. The government allowed licensed gun dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers so that they could continue to track the firearms as they were transferred to higher-level traffickers and key figures in Mexican cartels.

Books about the Kennedys are legion. Yet missing until now has been the exploration of the bond between Jack and Bobby, and the part that it played in their rise and fall. Richard D. Mahoney gives us Jack and Bobby in all their hubris and humanity, youthfulness and fatalism. Here is American history as it unfolds. The Kennedy Brothers is a fresh and masterful account of the men whose legacy continues to hold the American imagination.

Host Alex Calder unearths declassified Cold War documents exposing covert operations, nuclear near-misses, and illegal surveillance. Discover how close we came to annihilation and what was concealed from the public. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

New York Times best-selling author and legendary political insider Roger Stone lashes out with a blistering indictment that exposes the true history and monumental hypocrisy of the Bushes. In his usual "go for the jugular" style, Stone collaborates with Saint John Hunt - author, musician, and son of legendary CIA operative E. Howard Hunt - to make this a "no-holds-barred" history of the Bush family.

Munoz provides new insight into Benazir Bhutto’s unprecedented rise and an unflinching, minute-by-minute narrative of the assassination itself. With impeccable research, Munoz also situates Bhutto in the decades-long history of U.S.-Pakistan relations and the emergence of global terrorism, pinpointing her death as the moment when those relations changed forever. The result is a gripping narrative of Pakistan’s turbulent political realities and the death of its leading politician.

From the acclaimed author of JFK and Vietnam comes a book that uncovers the government's role in the Kennedy assassination more clearly than any previous inquiry. What was the extent of the CIA's involvement with Lee Harvey Oswald? Why was Oswald's file tampered with before the assassination of John F. Kennedy? And why did significant documents from that file mysteriously disappear? Oswald and the CIA answers these questions, not with theories, but with information from the primary sources themselves.

As one of al-Qaeda's most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden himself. As a double agent at the heart of al-Qaeda's chemical weapons program, he foiled attacks on civilians and saved countless lives, brushing with death so often that his handlers began to call him their spy with nine lives. This is the story of how a young Muslim, determined to defend his faith, found himself fighting on the wrong side - and his fateful decision to work undercover for his sworn enemy.

Richard L. Crosby III is the Xsquire. A former top 100 criminal defense attorney, a U.S. congressional candidate, and one of the sharpest legal minds in the courtroom — until the system he mastered turned its full weight on him. He's been the lawyer, the candidate, the defendant, and the inmate. Most people only ever see one side of the criminal justice system. Richard has lived all of them — and he's done staying quiet about what he saw. The Disbarred Xsquire pulls the curtain back on the courtroom strategies lawyers won't say publicly, the systemic failures that decide your fate before ...

Former Prime Minister Imran Khan survived a bullet in November 2022, but the truth didn't. Maxwell Slate investigates the assassination attempt that Pakistan's institutions refuse to solve — dissecting the political trap that made Khan a target, the warring conspiracy theories, and why no one knows who ordered the shot. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Lucien Graves leads a forensic deep-dive into Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination at the Ambassador Hotel. Through ballistics anomalies, hypnosis defense theories, and newly declassified files, the series challenges the lone-gunman verdict that has stood for over fifty years. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Maxwell Slate dissects the behavioral science, security failures, and threat assessment systems behind politically motivated public shootings. Drawing on federal data and documented cases, each episode examines how attackers select targets, why protection protocols fail, and whether we can catch warning signs before violence erupts. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Maxwell Slate dissects the 2022 assassination of Japan's longest-serving prime minister through forensic analysis of the killer's vendetta, security lapses, and political shockwaves exposing ties between Japan's ruling party and a controversial religious organization. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

When nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald on live television, he silenced the only man who could explain the Kennedy assassination. Lucien Graves examines declassified files, testimony contradictions, and mob connections to uncover how Ruby accessed a secured police basement and whether powerful forces orchestrated Oswald's elimination before he could talk. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan knowing she'd be killed—and she was right. Alex Calder investigates her assassination, the coverup that followed, and the democratic dream that died with her in Rawalpindi, exposing the violent forces that still shape Pakistan today. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Alex Calder investigates the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, exploring the Oslo Accords, religious incitement behind his murder, and decades of political consequences. Did one bullet destroy a viable peace process or accelerate inevitable collapse? For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Raven Thorne unpacks the CIA's decades-long obsession with killing Fidel Castro through exploding cigars, Mafia hit men, and poisoned wetsuits. Each episode reveals how operational creativity masked strategic failure and examines what this Cold War campaign tells us about covert action's costs. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Lucien Graves investigates America's most consequential political assassinations through declassified archives, revealing how bureaucratic secrecy shaped public narratives around JFK, RFK, and MLK. Each episode examines documented patterns of evidence suppression that kept crucial files buried for decades. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

A forensic investigation into Lee Harvey Oswald's ties to U.S. intelligence agencies, tracing CIA surveillance, Warren Commission failures, and institutional deceptions surrounding the Kennedy assassination through declassified documents and insider testimony. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Lucien Graves examines history's most consequential unsolved political killings through institutional obstruction and evidentiary failure. Each standalone episode investigates how governments systematically prevented transparency into murders that reshaped nations—from classified JFK files to shielded Cold War assassins. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Lucien Graves investigates political assassinations by examining the gap between killers' stated beliefs and their capabilities. Each episode explores how ideology, hidden handlers, and institutional interests create complex motives—revealing forensic patterns that expose external enablement behind seemingly lone-wolf acts. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai