more on Myre:
22 Jan 2020: Loveland Reporter Herald: CSU welcomes former national security adviser Susan Rice and NPR’s Greg Myre
Rice will deliver Founders Day keynote conversation with the political correspondent Feb. 11
As part of its Global Engagement Distinguished Speaker lecture series, Colorado State University will host former national security adviser and past U.N. ambassador Susan Rice next month for a discussion with NPR’s national security correspondent, Greg Myre...
https://www.reporterherald.com/2020/01/22/csu-welcomes-former-national-security-adviser-susan-rice-and-nprs-greg-myre/
12 Feb 2020: Collegian: Susan Rice lectures on family history, lessons from positions
By Noah Pasley
Susan Rice, former ambassador to the U.N., former adviser on the National Security Council and the author of “Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For,” hosted a conversation with Greg Myre, the national security correspondent for National Public Radio, Tuesday night at the Lory Student Center Grand Ballroom.
Rice and Myre spoke in detail about her parents...
Rice also shared her story of being the “boogeyman” in the media after sharing “talking points” given to her by the CIA that later turned out to be inaccurate.
“Within days, I was branded a liar, incompetent, untrustworthy: mostly by Republicans in Congress,” Rice said...
Myre wrapped up the discussion by asking Rice what advice she would give to young people as they try to process this “very complicated world.” ...
https://collegian.com/2020/02/category-news-susan-rice-gives-lecture-on-family-history-lessons-form-positions/
1 Jul: NPR: Greg Myre: Russian Bounty Intel Sparks Confusion Over How President Is Briefed
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: ...Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice writes this morning in The New York Times that that doesn’t matter. If she had known, she writes, she would have told the president, and people in any previous administration would have done the same.
So how does the process work? NPR national security correspondent Greg Myre is on the line...
MYRE: Well, from what we’re seeing in some of the reporting is that there were some Taliban members who were captured in a raid about six months ago. And they were interrogated, and a large pile of cash was uncovered. And The New York Times is reporting today that U.S. intelligence found evidence of financial transfers from Russia to a Taliban-linked account. But the U.S. intelligence community is still assessing, and there’s no consensus. And this is a classic problem for the intelligence community. You have to put together a puzzle with missing pieces.
And I spoke about this with Dan Hoffman. He’s a former CIA officer who was the Moscow station chief and also worked in the Middle East...
MYRE: Right. Exactly, Steve. And the CIA seems to be driving this, seems to be the agency that feels most strongly that this Russian bounty program is real, but we’ve seen very unusual development the past couple of days, where the defense secretary, the national security adviser, the director of national intelligence have all issued statements saying they can’t confirm the bounty program, at least at this point. And Trump, as you noted, has said he was never told about the program before it broke in the news, but we are seeing reports that he might have been briefed as early as February...
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/885899792/russian-bounty-intel-sparks-confusion-over-how-president-is-briefed
given Griffin seems to insert Vietnam War, it’s fascinating Myre is bringing that war into the story, along with Mike Esper/Stars & Stripes:
Tweet: Greg Myre, NPR national security correspondent - 4h ago
A backstory on Pentagon’s plan to shut down ‘Stars and Stripes.’ Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s uncle was renowned Associated Press correspondent George Esper, who covered the Vietnam War from its early days in 1965 until the bitter end a decade later ….
LINK NPR
(2) George Esper’s tenacity as a reporter was legendary, best illustrated by the final day of the war, April 30, 1975. As the few remaining Americans got on the final helicopters out, George declined the ride and remained in the AP office in Saigon and just kept filing stories…
(3) George Esper stayed until the North Vietnamese troops came knocking on his door, cut of the electricity, and told him it was time to go home. George Esper died in 2012 (his obit is below). But not hard to imagine what he would have thought about closing ‘Stars and Stripes.’
(4) George Esper’s obit from 2012:
(DEAD LINK?)
http://ap.org/Content/AP-In-The-News/2012/AP-Vietnam-correspondent-George-Esper-dies-at-79
https://twitter.com/gregmyre1/status/1301992332519190528
3 Feb 2012: WBUR: AP: AP Vietnam Correspondent George Esper Dies At 79
(FULL TEXT)
This program aired on February 3, 2012. The audio for this program is not available.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2012/02/03/george-esper-obit