Chip Usher
Former 32-year CIA officer and Senior Director for Intelligence at the Special Competitiveness Studies Project, focused on Middle East intelligence analysis and author of the "Fault Lines" newsletter.
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Mar 27, 2026 • 58min
Lawfare Daily: How Two Intelligence Community Veterans View the Iran Conflict, with Chip Usher and Aaron Faust
Aaron Faust, former State Department INR Iran-Iraq division chief and commentator, and Chip Usher, 32-year CIA veteran and Middle East intelligence analyst, discuss Iran’s threats, limits of U.S. military options, risks of wider escalation, gaps in missile and drone defenses, the difficulty of seizing territory or uranium, and the economic and diplomatic fallout of prolonged conflict.
