The “Live Action Rational Security” Edition

<p>This week, Quinta and Scott were joined by RatSec 1.0 host emeritus Benjamin Wittes to talk through the week's big national security news stories, including:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>“Sharing is Caring.” Earlier this week, an unnamed senior U.S. official indicated that the United States is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/us/politics/russia-generals-killed-ukraine.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">providing targeting information to Ukrainian forces</a>–only to have other officials walk back that assertion almost immediately. What is actually happening? And why is the Biden administration so paranoid about discussing it openly?</li><li>“The Chief’s Thief.” Recent revelations have shown that former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows played an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/09/inside-mark-meadowss-final-push-keep-trump-power/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">integral role</a> in leading efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 elections in the lead up to the Jan. 6 insurrection. But the Justice Department still has taken no steps toward prosecuting him for contempt of Congress for refusing to fully comply with the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation. What should we make of Meadows? And what should be done about him?</li><li>“Trolling Alone.” Incidents of harassment and hostility are an <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/us-politics-threats-violence-harassment/629739/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">increasingly commonplace feature</a> of our political discourse, particularly for public officials working on hot button issues. What should we make of this breakdown in civility? What causes it? And where may it lead?</li></ul><p>For object lessons, Quinta passed along Susan Dominus's eye-opening piece on&nbsp;“<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/magazine/surrogates-ukraine.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Nightmare of Being a Surrogate Mother in the Ukraine War</a>.” Scott recommended NASA's amazing <a href="ht