Does foreign aid help U.S. security?

Posted on March 25, 2014April 5, 2016 by nkralev

On the Season 2 premiere of “Conversations with Nicholas Kralev,” Rajiv Shah, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), talks about how $33 billion in U.S. foreign aid contributes to American security.

Are U.S. embassies fronts for the CIA?

Posted on July 30, 2013April 5, 2016 by nkralev

On this week’s episode of “Conversations with Nicholas Kralev,” former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte talks about how diplomacy and intelligence influence each other, the frequent tension between them, whether U.S. embassies are fronts for the CIA, and the “WMD fiasco” in Iraq.