Near East Policycast

David Cattler, the U.S. government's national intelligence manager for the Near East, recently shared a survey of the Middle East and American security and interests there. Will there be a "peace dividend" from the defeat of ISIS? What keeps the U.S. intelligence community up at night? How likely is war on Israel's northern border? Where do human rights rank among America's security priorities? Does the Middle East really matter to the United States? Cattler addressed these questions, and more, over the course of his presentation and the Q&A session that followed. Listen for a rare on-the-record account of how the U.S. intelligence community views and operates in the Middle East. Near East PolicyCast: Conversations on Middle East issues from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.