On today's episode, Morgan and Matt discuss 5 dirty secrets about national security, and specifically how these secrets impact all facets of work in Washington, DC. The 5 secrets discussed are: Foreign funding, the idea that access is everything, how nobody acknowledges when they are wrong, DC rewarding those who value the "system," and institutional tribalism.

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